Michael Bierut of Design Observer noticed a visual pun in the Abbott Miller cover art from the November 29 issue of the NYTBR, accompanying Liesl Schillinger's review of Against the Day. How about you?

I have to admit, the fact that these tumblers are spelling out "Pynchon" (as in Thomas Pynchon) completely eluded me when I read the review three weeks ago, but I feel a little less foolish knowing Bierut had the same problem. The funny thing, he reports, is that everybody at the Review got the joke immediately. Turns out there's a scientific reason for that: "[The] editors already knew what Miller's acrobats were doing: they were illustrating Liesl Schillinger's review of Against the Day. They saw Pynchon because they were looking for him."