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Upcoming Events

Marianne Leone — JP Literary Salon (Jamaica Plain, MA)

1/14/25, 7:00pm

Marianne Leone presents Five-Dog Epiphany; also reading: Randy Susan Meyers, author of The Many Mothers of Ivy Puddingstone The JP Literary Salon presented by Papercuts & the Loring-Greenough House Free RSVP: papercutsjp.com/events

Billy Childish & Ted Kessler — City Lights (VIRTUAL)

1/18/25, 11:00am

Billy Childish & Ted Kessler present To Ease My Troubled Mind, in conversation with Guy Picciotto of Fugazi (VIRTUAL event, 11:00am PT/2:00pm ET/7:00pm UK)

News & Features » October 2013 » Simon’s Cat in Good Company: Tiny the Usurper, Community Bookstore (Brooklyn)

Simon’s Cat in Good Company: Tiny the Usurper, Community Bookstore (Brooklyn)

October is cat month here at Akashic, as all of us adore those furry felines (well, almost all of us—someone here has allergies). We’re celebrating the release of Simon’s Cat vs. the World (available everywhere as of October 1st!) by featuring some of our favorite bookstore and library cats from around the world. Did you see us going cat-crazy on Tumblr a few months back? This is why. Come back every Wednesday and Friday in October to be introduced to a new purrfect pal.

(Interested in finding a feline friend of your own? Consider adopting one on October 29th, also known as National Cat Day!)

Today, we’d like to introduce you to Tiny the Usurper, the fiercest bookstore co-owner we have ever seen, resident cat at the nearby Community Bookstore in Brooklyn. Tiny speaks for himself on his own Twitter feed (@TinytheUsurper), selections from which are included below. Enjoy.

I am going to roll in ALL of the leaves today. All of them.

— TinytheUsurper (@TinytheUsurper) October 13, 2013

For those of you looking to be me for Halloween all you need is a pair of fangs (preferably glow in the dark) and a blood-red spiked collar. — TinytheUsurper (@TinytheUsurper) October 12, 2013

I CAUGHT A PIGEON! I CAUGHT A PIGEON! I CAUGHT A PIGEON! and now I will play with its dead body for hours! yay! — TinytheUsurper (@TinytheUsurper) September 25, 2013

employees just refilled stapler – was very cool

— TinytheUsurper (@TinytheUsurper) October 9, 2013

(Ed. note: The caption from that last photo of Tiny, sent to us by way of the Community Bookstore’s Instagram, reads: When I sleep on blank notebooks I fill the pages with dreams written in invisible ink…squirrels..so many squirrels…

Also, Tiny is secretly a tiger.)

IT'S LIKE IF HELM'S DEEP WENT DOWN IN A BOOKSTORE EXCEPT INSTEAD OF ORCS THEY'RE KIDS -BUT I MEAN, IT'S KINDA LIKE THE SAME THING, RIGHT?

— TinytheUsurper (@TinytheUsurper) October 16, 2013

Posted: Oct 16, 2013

Category: Akashic in Good Company, Akashic in Good Company, Simon's Cat in Good Company | Tags: Brooklyn, Community Bookstore, Simon Tofield, Simon's Cat, Simon's Cat in Good Company, Simon's Cat vs. the World, Tiny the Usurper