Garfield's Ad Review is a prominent feature of Advertising Age, where each week he singles out an ad for praise or ridicule and thus has become among the more pitifully groveled-before figures in trade-magazine history.

In another life, Garfield is co-host of National Public Radio's weekly Peabody Award-winning magazine program On the Media. This followed a dozen years as a commentator/
correspondent for NPR's All Things Considered. Dubbed by The New York Times "the Charles Kuralt of Bizarro World," he specialized in quirky Americana …