Synopsis
Look what The New Yorker dragged in! It’s the purr-fect gathering of talent celebrating our feline companions. This bountiful collection, beautifully illustrated in full color, features articles, fiction, humor, poems, cartoons, cover art, drafts, and drawings from the magazine’s archives. Among the contributors are Margaret Atwood, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Roald Dahl, Wolcott Gibbs, Robert Graves, Emily Hahn, Ted Hughes, Jamaica Kincaid, Steven Millhauser, Haruki Murakami, Amy Ozols, Robert Pinsky, Jean Rhys, James Thurber, John Updike, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and E. B. White. Including a Foreword by Anthony Lane, this gorgeous keepsake will be a treasured gift for all cat lovers.
About Anthony Lane
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Anthony Lane has been a film critic for
The New Yorker since 1993. He lives in London.
From the Hardcover edition.
About Haruki Murakami
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Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into more than forty languages, and the most recent of his many international honors is the Jerusalem Prize, whose previous recipients include J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, and V. S. Naipaul.
About Calvin Trillin
Calvin Trillin, who became
The Nation’s “deadline poet” in 1990, has been a staff writer at
The New Yorker since 1963. He is the author of
Deciding the Next Decider, A Heckuva Job,
Obliviously on He Sails, and
About Alice. He has also written verse on the events of the day for
The New Yorker,
The New York Times, and National Public Radio. He says he believes in an inclusive political system that prohibits from public office only those whose names have awkward meter or are difficult to rhyme. He lives in New York.
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About M.F.K. Fisher
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The author of more than twenty books, including
As They Were, Sister Age, and
Two Towns in Provence (all available from Vintage Books), M.F.K. Fisher spent most of her life in France and California.