THE FELINE MUSE: AN INTERVIEW WITH PAUL KOUDOUNARIS
FT: What was the genesis of the book?
PK: While I have published three previous books, they have all been about death. I had originally intended, as my next book, to write a history of pet cemeteries, which of course is very much related to the death material. But in the process of compiling that research I came across so many great cat stories, and I realised they had never gotten their due in the telling of history. I love cats, and it just so happened that mine, Baba, is an ace model. We had already been playing around doing cosplay shoots. So the pieces just kind of fell together: feline history, and let her tell it and let her play the
