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Dear Tabby

Cat lady preaches immortality -- or the nine-lives equivalent

By Clay McNear

Published on October 04, 2007

You're a cat person or you're not. Democrats/Republicans, pro-choicers/pro-lifers, there's some give and take. Not with cats. If you're anti-mouser, don't go near Changing Hands Bookstore 'cause author/cartoonist Nicole Hollander is an uncompromising champion of the four-legged furballs. Best known for her syndicated cartoon Sylvia and best-seller 101 Reasons a Cat Is Better Than a Man, Hollander is now tackling the female-aging process with her razor wit and her new book Tales of Graceful Aging From the Planet Denial. Why fight it, Nic? You've got eight lives left, right?


Tue., Oct. 9, 7 p.m., 2007


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