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This is the 10th anniversary of Design Matters, and to mark the anniversary were

we playing some favorite shows from the archive.

This one, an interview with Caroline Paul and Wendy McNaughton,

was recorded in April of 2013.

This is Design Matters with Debbie Milman from Design Observer.com.

On this program, Debbie Milman talks with author Caroline Paul and illustrator Wendy McNaughton

about their unusually intimate collaboration on a book.

She was going to write the book and then she was going to give it to me and then I was going

to draw to her writing. But we quickly

realize that this is not the typical writer- illustrator relationship.

Because we're in a relationship.

Here's Debbie Milman. The author Caroline Paul has fought fires,

crashed planes, and been trapped on mountainsides, but recently she suffered a more common calamity.

Her cat Tibby disappeared.

She looked and looked and never found him.

And then, five weeks later, the cat came back.

But why?

What was he up to?

Caroline's attempt to answer that question is told in Lost Cat,

a true story of love, desperation, and GPS technology.

Her partner, the illustrator Wendy McNaughton,

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