Showing posts with label Caturday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Caturday. Show all posts
Saturday, June 7, 2025
Saturday, May 31, 2025
Authors & their Cats: Lilian Jackson Braun
Happy Caturday! What better author to highlight today on my Writers & their Cats series than Lilian Jackson Braun, author of the Cat Who series.
Saturday, May 17, 2025
AUTHORS & THEIR CATS: Chester Himes
Happy Caturday!
Authors & their Cats: Chester Himes
The following is from a book called Writers and Their Cats, a book about writers and their cats by Alison Nastasi.
Chester Himes, considered the father of the black American crime novel, wrote stories that mirrored the real-life violence and racism happening in the world around him. “American violence is public life, it’s a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story form,” he once said. “So I would think that any number of black writers should go into the detective story form.”
One reprieve from the chaos of everyday life was Himes’s cats, particularly his blue-point Siamese called Griot (1st and Third photos above). “Griot is named after the magicians in the courts of West African kings,” Himes said in a 1972 interview. Griot was Himes’s constant travel companion. When the If He Hollers Let Him Go author didn’t bring Griot along during his adventures, Himes paid the price. In a 1971 interview Himes gave while in Stuttgart, Germany, he claimed he couldn’t stay away from home too long since Griot would “certainly destroy [his] studio back home and chew up all [his] books.”
After Griot passed away, Himes kept a kitty named Deros, who the writer loved for her sweet personality.
Saturday, April 26, 2025
Authors & their Cats: Ursula K. Le Guin
Happy Caturday! Authors and their Cats: Ursula K. Le Guin. What an amazing writer. What a fascinating woman! I was so lucky to be on a panel with her once--a highlight of my 'literary' career. Be sure and scroll down to read about her 'cat' books.
In addition to an incredible number of books on fantasy and science fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin wrote Catwings, a children's book, illustrated by S.D. Schindler.
Review by
Publisher's Weekly Review
Le Guin also wrote Cat Dreams, illustrated by S.D. Schindler, Jane on Her Own: A Catwings Tale, Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings, and Catwings Return.
Ursula K. Le Guin:
The genre formerly classified as 'science fiction' has become divided into sub-genres, such as fantasy, realistic fiction, alternative history, and other categories. Le Guin resists classifying her own work in any one area, saying that some of it may be called 'science fiction', while other writings may be considered 'realist' and still others 'magical realism' (her term). Le Guin is one of the few writers whose works (which include poetry and short fiction) can be found in public libraries' collections for children, young adults, and adults.
Le Guin's published works include a novel, A Wizard of Earthsea, that won an American Library Association Notable Book citation, a Horn Book Honor List citation, and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1979. She has been nominated several times for the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award--the highest honors in science fiction/fantasy writing--and has won both awards. Her Earthsea Trilogy is a mainstay of fantasy fiction collections.
Down an alley
in a dumpster, Mrs. Jane Tabby gives birth to four kittens. But these
are no ordinary offspring. Each has a pair of wings. Although Mrs. Tabby
is unperturbed by her kittens' appearance, her neighbors are not so
charitable; when the kittens are old enough to fly, Mrs. Tabby sends her
children out into the world. Because both winged and four-footed
creatures mistrust them, the kittens have trouble finding a place to
live, but eventually discover a loving home. Dark watercolor
etchings by Schindler further convey the plight of these airborne
felines as they go in search of a home.
Le Guin also wrote Cat Dreams, illustrated by S.D. Schindler, Jane on Her Own: A Catwings Tale, Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings, and Catwings Return.
Ursula K. Le Guin:
Arguably one of the
canonical writers of American science fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin was
born in Berkeley, Calif., in 1929, the daughter of Alfred L. and
Theodora Kroeber. After earning an A.B. degree from Radcliffe College
and an A.M. from Columbia University, Le Guin was awarded a Fulbright
fellowship in 1953.
The genre formerly classified as 'science fiction' has become divided into sub-genres, such as fantasy, realistic fiction, alternative history, and other categories. Le Guin resists classifying her own work in any one area, saying that some of it may be called 'science fiction', while other writings may be considered 'realist' and still others 'magical realism' (her term). Le Guin is one of the few writers whose works (which include poetry and short fiction) can be found in public libraries' collections for children, young adults, and adults.
Le Guin's published works include a novel, A Wizard of Earthsea, that won an American Library Association Notable Book citation, a Horn Book Honor List citation, and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1979. She has been nominated several times for the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award--the highest honors in science fiction/fantasy writing--and has won both awards. Her Earthsea Trilogy is a mainstay of fantasy fiction collections.
Saturday, February 1, 2025
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Cartoon of the Day: Cat New Year's resolution
I know Flora is considering this one! Happy Caturday! Happy New Year!
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