{"id":44301,"date":"2013-01-04T13:15:33","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T18:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=44301"},"modified":"2013-01-29T03:23:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T08:23:14","slug":"in-praise-of-bookstore-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/04\/in-praise-of-bookstore-cats\/","title":{"rendered":"In Praise of Bookstore Cats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Screen-shot-2013-01-04-at-11.28.36-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-44309\" title=\"Screen shot 2013-01-04 at 11.28.36 AM\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Screen-shot-2013-01-04-at-11.28.36-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"241\" \/><\/a>In addition to bringing the world the glory that is the Weird Book Room (plus, of course, the main site itself), AbeBooks curates <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abebooks.com\/books\/bookseller-bookshop-bookstore\/cats.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">a gallery of bookstore cats<\/a> from all over North America. (We imagine international felines are welcome; the current batch just happens to hail from the U.&thinsp;S. and Canada. Certainly the resident orange cat at Paris&#8217;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. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abebooks.com\/servlet\/SearchResults?an=Jolan+Foldes&amp;bi=0&amp;bx=off&amp;ds=30&amp;recentlyadded=all&amp;sortby=1&amp;tn=The+Street+of+the+Fishing+Cat&amp;x=48&amp;y=5\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Street of the Fishing Cat<\/em><\/a> was a recent pick.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.&thinsp;S. and Canada. 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