From the Book - First edition.
Fat cats. Death of a favorite / J. F. Powers ; The case of Dimity Ann / James Thurber ; Defence of cats / Wolcott Gibbs ; The smoker / David Schickler ; Colloquy / Weldon Kees ; Cat story / Jamaica Kincaid ; The wineshop cat / Sylvia Townsend Warner ; Bookstore cat / Susan Sheehan ; Tomcat / Ted Hughes ; Din-Din [excerpt] / Thomas Whiteside ; Paunch / Paul Muldoon ; Defection of a favorite / J. F. Powers
Alley cats. The cats / John Updike ; Day and age / Dana Goodyear ; A cat in every home / Katharine T. Kinkead ; Cat house / Maeve Brennan ; Town of cats / Haruki Murakami ; Cat's robo-cradle / Margaret Atwood ; Lady of the cats / Wolcott Gibbs and E. F. Kinkead ; Army cats / Tom Sleigh ; Crouching tiger, trembling penguin / Robert Sullivan ; How to make a cat trap / E. B. White ; The cat-savers / Wallace White ; A dull, ordinary, normal life in Manhattan / Bernard Taper ; Cat goddess / Robert Graves
Cat fanciers. Tiger in the snow / Peter Matthiessen ; Where I live / Amy Ozols ; Intercat / Hendrik Hertzberg ; The last meow / Burkhard Bilger ; Propinquity / Alastair Reid ; The cattery / Henry S. F. Cooper ; The lady and the tigers / Susan Orlean ; The cloister / William Matthews ; Cat fantasia / Thomas Beller ; Cat-sitting / John Brooks ; Myself with cats / Henri Cole ; Cat man [excerpt] / George Steiner ; The pet / Sally Benson ; Door / Robert Pinsky ; On the death of a cat / Franz Wright ; Attention: lost cat / Patricia Marx ; Living room leopards / Ariel Levy
Curious cats. Edward the conqueror / Roald Dahl ; The paw of a cat / Kay Ryan ; A cat, a future / Kay Ryan ; Questions about language
cats / Vicki Hearne ; Kitten in a graveyard / Selma Robinson ; Tooth and claw / T. Coraghessan Boyle ; Wet Thursday / Weldon Kees ; Bluebell regained / Brendan Gill ; Kikimora / Jean Rhys ; Old woman / Ivy Litvinov ; Electrical storm / Elizabeth Bishop ; Getting through to the others [excerpt] / Emily Hahn ; Guardians / John Montague ; Cat therapist / Lois Metzger ; Cat 'n' mouse / Steven Millhauser.
