Here is a high-falutin’ book review in Slate.com about a high-falutin’ memoir about cats.
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2013/01/peter_trachtenberg_s_another_insane_devotion_cat_memoir_reviewed.html
Peter TRachtenberg wrote “Another Insane Devotion’
Troy Patterson wrote the review.
If you want to see some elegant and truly amusing writing, check this out.
Paragraph one of the review (breaks provided by me):
“Peter Trachtenberg’s Another Insane Devotion is a discursive essay on personal growth, a public exercise in private exorcism, and a collection of notes toward a philosophy of love. Pondering morality and memory, the author addresses Sappho, Homer, Aristotle, Descartes, Michelangelo, Proust, Ruskin, and the Gnostic gospels.
He argues with the universe, anatomizes exes, dons a hairshirt or two, and by-the-by sketches Hopper-esque scenes of small-town strangeness and urban alienation. The book inspired many thoughts in me, foremost that I need to clean the litter box.
Another Insane Devotion is a cat memoir.”