“Is that a cat on your wallet?” I’m at the checkout counter paying for a meal. She seems amused. “It is, it is,” I say, amused also, but not because I think the cat wallet is funny, which it objectively is. Rather, I’m amused because she doesn’t know she’s looking at the tip of an […]
“Features cat” isn’t an attribute we see mentioned with any regularity – never, that I’m aware of – in publishers’ catalogs or library databases. Not where books intended for adult readers are concerned. We exclude for purposes of this conversation the kittens-with-mittens subgenre. Google “cats in literature,” and you’ll find the Cheshire Cat, of course, […]
