Rachel Yoder, Kai Cheng Thom and Joni Murphy give us their idiosyncratic takes on creature-love, courage and curiosity.
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She had us at “Mitchell, the sociable llama.” Joni Murphy is a novelist/poet, whose new book features a fictional New York City inhabited entirely by animals (if you can take your eyes off the book’s captivating cover long enough to open it).
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Kai Cheng Thom is deeply passionate about what makes people tick. Her life-long interest in Laika, the Soviet space dog, is a celebration of the author’s wonderfully engaged curiosity about human/animal motivations, aspirations, and ways of being in the world (and the outer galaxy).
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Rachel Yoder knows how to not only write a dazzling story but how to tell one. Through her relationship with her very brave and confident cat-son — the late, great wonderfully named Snacks — Yoder learned to be very brave and confident herself. In conversation with Pam Rocker about her beloved fe...
