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• International, national, and local media
• Co-op available
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• National radio and podcast campaign
• National print campaign targeting arts and entertainment weeklies/monthlies and holiday roundups (author connections at Brooklyn Rail, Bomb, Hyperallergic, Whitehot Magazine, Mr. Beller's Neighborhood)
• Events in New York and Brooklyn; launch party at Andrew Edlin Gallery
• Promotion through peterwortsman.com
Auteur
Peter Wortsman is the author of works of fiction, nonfiction, plays, and poetry. He is also a critically acclaimed translator from German into English. A former fellow of the Fulbright Foundation (1973), The Thomas J. Watson Foundation (1974), and a Holtzbrinck Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin (2010), his writing has been honored with the Beard’s Fund Short Story Award (1985) and an Independent Publishers Book Award (2013). 
Texte du rabat
Ravens in Berlin . . . Parakeets in Brooklyn . . . Chickens in Tel Aviv . . . Spiders in Cognac. City creatures spark the imagination and intellect in words and art by this father-daughter team. Odd Birds & Fat Cats (An Urban Bestiary)* is an illustrated collection of brief observations on city creatures. Inspired by the tradition of the medieval bestiary, *bestiarum vocabulum, a 12th-century bestselling genre that chronicled animals and beings both real and fantastical, the book features pithy impressions of birds and animals that delight, confound, and edify, written by Peter Wortsman, coupled with detailed naturalist artwork by his daughter, Aurélie Bernard Wortsman.
Featured creatures include:
Seagulls: “Fallen splinters of eternity, they hang overhead with the equanimity and mild disdain of angels in a medieval altarpiece, and unlike pigeons, refuse any direct contact with man."
Ants: “Micro-managers in three-piece bodies, ants parody human antics to a tee. Or is it the other way around?"
With four-color images throughout, printed in a beautiful hardbound edition, this one-of-a-kind volume will please the discerning animal lover, traveler, art lover, iconoclast, and literati on your gift list—and, of course, also you!
Contenu
Contents
Whose Zoo Is It? (A Foreword)   13
I * Odd Birds
Pigeons   20
Seagulls   22
The Raven and the Swift (Berlin, Germany)   24
Le Corbeau (Paris, France)   26
The Crow (Kyoto, Japan)   29
Red-Tailed Hawk   30
Rooster on the Loose   31
Chicken (Tel Aviv, Israel)   32
Praise for the Lone Peacock in the Valence Zoo (Valence, France)   33
The Monk Parrakeets of Green-Wood Cemetery (Brooklyn, New York)   34
II * Bugs & Microbes
Ants   38
Spider   40
A Spider in Paradise (Cognac, France)   41
Enculeur de Mouches (Paris, France)   42
Conjoined Firebugs (Berlin, Germany)   44
Dust Mites 46
A Milliliter of Love   48
The Vespa, a Wasp on Wheels (Rome, Italy)   50
Gutsy Bacteria   51
Water Bug   52
Retroviruses   54
III * Canines, Felines & Foragers
Cave Canem!   58
Beware of Cat!   60
The Riddle of the Sphinx   62
Waltzing with a Tiger   64
Like Pigs to the Slaughter (Ziguinchor, Senegal)   66
IV * Rodents
Squirrels   70
Subway Rats   72
Mouse Mummy   74
Experimental Guinea Pigs   77
V * Big Game
Buffaloes (Taos, New Mexico)   80
Texas Longhorn Cattle (Houston, Texas)   83
Whales Washed Up at Rockaway Beach (Queens, New York)   84
Going Ape Shit   86
Elephants of Forgetting (Paris, France)   89
VI * Anthropoids
Little Alien from the Planet Uterus   92
Family Members   94
Musclemen   95
Preserved Body Parts   96
Pedestrian Types   98
The Baby Carriage Contingent   100
The Disease of Self   101
The Smile   102
Size Places   104
Where Names Come From   105
How the Face Ages   106
Faithful Fear   108
Smells  109
The Uninterrupted Kiss   110
Looking Is a Faulty Glue   111
The Garbage Waltzes with the Wind   112
About the Creators   115
Acknowledgments   117