kit (and more) lit: animal noir

I found it while surfing through Guardian.co.uk, my favorite online news source: an article from November 2009 taking note of a genre in which animals are depicted being their animal selves, with or without human-friendly guises. I've some books to catch up with, it seems, Gun with Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem being among them. Have a look at Suzanne Munshower's review.