The Paris Review

Henri the Existential Cat waxes philosophical on the price of literary fame.

• Presumably fifteenth-century paw prints have been found in a medieval Croatian manuscript.
• Herewith: Swan & Edgar, a Marylebone pub lined completely with books.
• Related: the International Edible Books Festival is a real thing, and here are pictures.
• “You are a wonderful writer. But you really should do something a little more interesting with your hair.” And other things people have said to authors.

“We’re definitely lending this book to the crew of kitten toughs who like to hang around the Myrtle JMZ stop talking about praxis and reminiscing about the days back when New York meant something, man.” (Good) book reviews, by two cats.

In addition to bringing the world the glory that is the Weird Book Room (plus, of course, the main site itself), AbeBooks curates a gallery of bookstore cats from all over North America. (We imagine international felines are welcome; the current batch just happens to hail from the U. S. and Canada. Certainly the resident orange cat at Paris’s Tea and Tattered Pages is a notable omission!) While a number of the kitties on display have literary names, Booker Fox, of the Book Nook in Mexico, Missouri, seems to be the only one with her own Facebook page, on which she gives literary recommendations. (The Street of the Fishing Cat was a recent pick.)