Cat Is Art Spelled Wrong

“Cat Is Art Spelled Wrong is a playful and unpredictable elevator ride between high and low, between Derrida and Grumpy Cat, between Baudrillard and a feline dressed as a shark that likes to ride a vacuum cleaner. . . . The magic of Cat Is Art Spelled Wrong is that its audience is all-inclusive. . . . Enjoying the book is in no way contingent upon an art background or owning a cat.”—Kirkus

"The essays have an eclectic and joyful appeal . . .  Cat lovers will adore these creative reflections on the frivolity and the necessity of pets and the Web videos many believe to be "the ice cream of moving imagery."—Kirkus

“This clever collection is highly recommended for people who watch cat videos, which is apparently nearly everyone.”—Publishers Weekly

“Readers should expect to find more awe than “aw” in this book, a shift that signals Coffee House Books has maintained the line of inquiry first embarked upon by the Walker Art Center and the lineage of artists whose works precipitated the event in the first place. In this collection, the focus rightly returns to the ancient impulse to pay cat obeisance and the realization that this obeisance (which is sometimes called art) has been sustained for nearly all of the Holocene.”—The Rumpus

“There’s something perverse about making a traditional paper book about Internet ephemera . . . [and] it’s precisely this kind of ambivalent-yet-appealing perversity that makes the anthology "Cat Is Art Spelled Wrong," an entire book of essays dedicated to cat videos, such a delight.”—Chicago Tribune

“Cats have a hold on us—even those of us who do not consider ourselves a “cat person.” And now cat videos do too. All it takes is a click of a mouse, or, in the case of Cat Is Art Spelled Wrong, the turn of a page, to find out why.”—AV Club

"Fourteen writers take on perhaps the most important cultural issue of our time: figure out what we're talking about when we're talking about cat videos."—New York Magazine

“It’s not just about cats, it’s about this internet phenomena and what it says about humanity. The pieces range from philosophical to deeply personal stories. . . If you’re interested in internet culture, don’t miss this book.”—BookRiot

“14 funny, fascinating essays by noted writers.”—Star Tribune

“Contributors provide surprising insights about what our impulse to watch YouTube clips of felines says about them and us.”—The Week

“What's behind the cat video phenomenon? Local publisher Coffee House Press attempts to answer that question in the new book, Cat Is Art Spelled Wrong.”—Minnesota Public Radio

“The festival inspired a forthcoming collection of essays, Cat Is Art Spelled Wrong, with references to Georg Hegel, Immanuel Kant and, naturellement, semiotician Jacques Derrida—diffident cats tending to bring out the French in admirers.”—Washington Post

“With [this] new book, Minneapolis publisher makes the case that cat videos are a form of, yes, art”—MinnPost

“Por qué nos fascinan los vídeos de gatitos en internet”—El Confidencial(Spain)

“Those upset by the [outcome of the CatVidFest contest] need only to read Maria Bustillos’s 'Hope Is the Thing with Fur,' her contribution to the Coffee House Press cat video essay collection, Cat Is Art Spelled Wrong. She writes: 'Cat videos are the crystallization of all that human beings love about cats, the crux of which is centered in the fact that cats are both beautiful and absurd.'”—City Pages

“Finally, I get to Write About Cats”—Bookmobile Blog

"A lot of fun and one to store away for the holidays for someone who loves cat videos.”—BookRiot