Another Insane Devotion

Eileen Myles, author of Cool for You and Inferno "This is Peter's best book and if you don't know what that means just imagine your sweetest, most perverse storytelling friend asks to meet because he has a confession to make. When you arrive he informs you that he loves his cat more than life itself, or exactly that much and then he opens his shirt and shows you the cat tattoo and then he begins to tell you of his love and in a puff hours vanish and it's absolutely riveting." Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City "I am not a cat person--I approach each one on a cat-by-cat basis--yet Peter Trachtenberg is such a wonderful writer, and this book is so damn good, that I found myself carried along by its lucidity, its generosity, its deep wisdom. In the end, of course, Another Insane Devotion is about much more than cats." Publishers Weekly, 9/10/12 "Through short sections of intelligent, often humorous prose, former and potential girlfriends and past pets are conjured in hopes of understanding how people can fall in and out of love...Trachtenberg's journey proves entertaining and enlightening." T: The New York Times Style Magazine, 10/7/12 "Another Insane Devotion--about love, sex, marriage and especially cats--is a hallmark of brainy discursiveness." Booklist, 11/15/12 "[A] meditation on the meaning(s) of love...Trachtenberg's lyric writing keeps the reader interested...making for a memoir that reads like a compelling work of fiction." Chronogram, November 2012 "Spiked with intellectual digressions and unlikely graphics, Trachtenberg's eccentric meditation on loss and transition is not your everyday cat book...[He] uses language as a flensing tool, peeling back layers to glimpse deeper truths." Chicago Tribune, 12/2/12 "This is surely the best book written about what it means to love cats, and to wonder if they love you, since Carl Van Vechten's The Tiger in the House." Hudson Valley News, 11/14/12 "The season's most eccentric book...You'll have many smiles and a few tears while reading...The story of...the fierce and tender bonds of love between people and between people and cats...The book, in all its richness and humor,...tells us about loving a cat, loving a human being and where those loves can take us." InfoDad.com, 11/29/12