Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.
Catherine Cheek
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Aug 05
Marsh Pinch Pot
I made this series of small pinch-pot flowerpots because I wanted to replicate ones I’d made a decade ago to hold succulents in. After the succulents died, I set the pots outside where they got lost and broken over the years. Now I found a good window for succulents again, and I still had the …
Aug 04
Book Review: The Sixth Extinction
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert This is an informative but exceedingly depressing book that will make any animal-lover want to cry. Part of the book is about the history of the discovery of extinction, including the fossil craze of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The story of Victorian era scientists all …
Jul 30
Book Review: The Flamethrowers
The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner This book feels very literary to me in that it’s full of a lot of different things, but if you asked me what it was about, I’d have a hard time answering. About a girl who dated a rich man? About poseur artists? About speed? About motorcycles? The main character …
Jul 28
Book Review: Hatchet
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen My kid read this for school and liked it, so when I found myself in a reading doldrum, I picked it up. This is standard survivalist fare, paced to make it interesting and voiced for younger teens. Adults should like it too, as I did. Boy crashes in a plane, lands …