Harrison Bae Wein
When I was in college, I turned in a story for a writing class that told the story of a holiday meal from a dog's point of view. My professor dismissed it out of hand, saying that you should never, ever write from an animal's point of view because there was no way to make it interesting. I'd grown up with dogs, and when my wife got a cat some years ago, I was just fascinated by his bizarre behavior. He loved to sit with me while I was writing in the early mornings before work, and I wondered what his writing would be like. I resisted the urge to explore that until I picked up "The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr" by the great German Romantic writer ETA Hoffman, best known for "The Nutcracker." All his work is brilliant, and his unfortunately unfinished novel really inspired me to throw myself into the project. Hastings cites Murr in the novel as his inspiration, as Hoffman was mine.
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