The Cat’s Pajamas, a collection of previously unpublished stories written over the course of Ray Bradbury’s career. “Taken as a whole, the stories of The Cat’s Pajamas are a tribute to Bradbury’s continuing inventiveness and defy easy categorization,” says Timothy Perrin in the LAT Book Review.

The book’s title story, dating from last year, is a sweet tale of a man and woman who lay hands on a stray kitten at the same instant. Both have recently lost much–loved cats. What are they to do? They talk it out at a nearby diner. When the diner closes, they decide to take a room at a pet–friendly motel. The cat goes in the middle of the bed. Whomever it goes to will get to keep it. But Electra, as they’ve named it, just curls up and dozes off. They talk late into the night and fall asleep. In the morning, she asks, “Did the cat move either way during the night to indicate which of us it was going to belong to?” “No,” he says smiling, “The cat didn’t move. But you did.”

Also in today’s Book Review, Thomas Curwen on Walter Mosley’s Little Scarlet, Richard Schickel on David L. Robb’s Operation Hollywood How the Pentagon Shapes and Censors the Movies, and Dick Lochte on Sue Grafton’s R is for Ricochet. (Registration required)