Nancy Cooper Frank

@ncooperfrank.bsky.social

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Reader, sometime writer, curious person. Russian literature Ph.D. Interested in Slavic languages, French language & literature, world history, archeology, linguistics, trivia Also: Abolish ICE. Living with cancer.

Calico cat dozing on her side on a blue blanket

Calico cat hunched over a half-finished jigsaw puzzle of tea cups.

Sweetland by Michael Crummey. Feet in yellow socks with flowers and a black cat printed on each sock.

Ginger cat on a bed, assiduously licking her front leg

Calico kitty sprawled on a lumpy blue blanket, back paws jutting out towards the camera, head tilted and eyes half closed

Calico cat curled up around a cloth toy mouse, front paws up and eyes half closed in bliss

A trinity of haloed nuns surrounded by the rays of the sun; below them a bearded older man who may be a preacher or a monk, other miscellaneous religious. Poster for the movie "The Little Hours"

Two little paws reaching out to a catdancer toy

Night city scape, fog and faint red glow

Small white truck/van parked on street. Handpainted lettering on the truck reads: To resist is to be patriotic. We all belong.

metal sign made from cut-up license plates, reading "Happy Hour All Day"

$Blue shopping tote-cart and a band of rainbow colors refracted on tile floor$

Cover of The Most Magnificent Mosque by Ann Jungman illustrated by Shelley Fowles, showing drawing of striped red and white arches below which cavort three boys in medieval dress

Calico cat sitting on a finished jigsaw puzzle portraying a jumble of different animal species: insects, mammals, birds, various mollusks and other sea creatures, fish, reptiles, microbes, amphibians

A ginger cat and a calico cat on a rug by a bed, blissed out on catnip

Orange kitty positioned upright but stretching in a way that has her head turned almost fully upside down, ears to the carpet and nose to the ceiling.

Orange cat stepping over my blanketed legs, while calico cat lies on same blanket turned away from the camera

Centroeuropa by Vicente Luis Mora, translated by Rahul Bert

A very pooped, ennui-filled orange cat spread out on a patterned rug, in front of a messy bookshelf and a brimmed straw hat tossed on the rug.

Orange tabby in a tangle of legs and paws, not ready for her closeup

Alice Thomas Ellis, The 27th Kingdom
Vernon Duke, Passport to Paris, introduction by Boris Dralyuk
Vicente Luis Mora, Centroeuropa, translated by Rahul Bery
Aimé Césaire, Discours sur le colonialisme suivi de Discours sur la Négritude

Orange tabby curled up sleeping on a blue blanket

White metal plaque in shape of a dog peeing, inscribed with the word "NO!"

Cover of The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields

Calico cat playing with a rainbow string toy

Calico cat in foreground, orange cat behind her, sprawled on blankets

Calico cat on a bed reaching out to catch a toy

Calico cat spread out on a bed

How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History by Josephine Quinn

Little yellow wildflowers (I’m no botanist) hugging close to the grass by the side of the pavement

Tabletop, calico kitty loaf occupying a cozy jigsaw puzzle

Cover of The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño. Sadly the translator’s name is not on the cover.

Jigsaw of New Yorker cover. A New York interior, a black cat on the bed looking out the window Dow at the skyscrapers

White metal lawn plaque in the form of a dog urinating, with the word ‘NO’

Cover of Elegy for Iris by John Bayley

Photo: Mexico City (I presume), Mexican flag, captioned Ayúdame a aprender español, por favor. Si puedes leer esto, háblame en español. Gracias

Calico cat stretched out on a carpet

Calico cat resting on a bed next to a copy of Apollinaire’s and Dufy’s Le Bestiaire ou cortège d’Orphée

Orange cat in a mesh laundry hamper

Text message: ALERTSF: A young mountain lion was spotted near Pacific/Octavia. If you see it, slowly back away . Call 415 554 9400 or 911 in an emergency

Two cats alike in dignity sharing a patch of sunshine on a yellow carpet

Calico cat sprawled on a blue ottoman in direct line of sunshine

Feet clad in striped socks, book Le Passe-muraille

Orange cat facing down calico cat

Kerrygold Pure Irish Butter

Calico cat yawning with all her might , lying next to a teapot on which a Christmas tree is depicted

Print edition, special section, ‘Let’s Talk About Death’

Completed jigsaw puzzle of a tiny orange cat asleep on a huge white bed, with lots of tall buildings seen through the window. A New Yorker cover signed by the delightful Sempé

Movie Poster for Diabolo Menthe (Peppermint Soda) with a drawing of three schoolgirls

Figures in a ‘Tiny Cat Nativity’ set. The baby, as is only proper, is an orange tabby

Calico cat on a red tablecloth next to a white teapot that has a Christmas tree painted on it

Completed jigsaw puzzle of a Sempé New Yorker cover. The world in lush bloom, a gardener in garden gloves and overalls emerging from his (her?) front steps in joyous anticipation, arms outstretched, face lifted to the sun

Orange kitty grasping a peacock feather in two paws

A very professorial cartoon dog with bowtie and nerdy eyeglasses

Painting of a plain undecorated church interior, all arches in subtle shades of grey and beige

Eerie artificial white water lilies, with their reflection in the water, tall brilliant artificial flowers in the background, a surreal landscape against a dark sky

Orange cat with a red ribbon decorated with snowflakes draped loosely on her

Orange cat lying on her side one paw up in salute

Kandinsky, Kohlgruberstrasse or Autumn landscape near Murnau. A stylized pink and yellow striped road flanked by a few trees which cast shadows over the road and the odd house. Areas of green flecked with yellow suggesting hilly ground on one side of the road. A deep blue sky. Lots of purposely visible brush strokes, you can almost smell the paint.