Guide to a revised life

Coming in April from Running Press is a newly revised edition of Peanuts Guide to Life, the original edition of which I reviewed back in 2005. I’m not sure whether the revisions will extend beyond the foreword; they’re dumping the one co-written by Bill Cosby, and getting a new one written by Andy Cohen. I presume this is Andy Cohen, the TV host and pop culture specialist and not Andy Cohen, the former second baseman for the Giants. My presumption is based on two facts:

  1. The baseball player has been dead continuously since 1988.
  2. I think I detect a subtle clue in this photo of the TV host by Greg Hernandez:

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