The cover of this issue is a colored map of greater New York with neighborhoods renamed in the Aphganistan fashion; i.e. Bronxistan, Upper Kvetchnya, Central Pakistan, Flatbushtuns, Khanibar and Gaymenistan. The book "Ella Minnow Pea: A progressively Lipogrammatic Epistolary Fable" by Mark Dunn is advertised. It is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The illustration for this review by Scott Stossel is similar to Meyerowitz's famed New Yorker wold map cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.