It was the short story that many of us devoured with a fury that only accompanies a piece of writing that’s profoundly relatable. But, what is the true story that inspired Cat Person, the goose-bump-inducing short story that had many of us nodding ou…
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Loved ‘Cat Person’? The author just landed a book deal
It was The New Yorker’s most read fiction of 2017.
Now, the author behind viral short story Cat Person has landed a book deal. Her very first one.
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MashReads Podcast: ‘Cat Person’ perfectly taps into the murky ambivalence of millennial dating
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It’s hard to read “Cat Person,” a short story by Kristen Roupenian, without thinking two words: Extreme same.
The story, first published in the The New Yorker in early December, details a flirtation and then an encounter between Margot, a 20-year-old college student, and Robert, a 34-year-old man whom she (and the reader) knows very little about.
Throughout “Cat Person,” Roupenian explores the murky ambivalence of modern dating, in which a chance encounter can lead to someone being both disinterested and also disinclined to let that other person go — to the point where, midway through the story, after she sleeps with Robert, Margot notes, “[I] thought, brightly, This is the worst life decision I have ever made! And she marvelled at herself for a while, at the mystery of this person who’d just done this bizarre, inexplicable thing.” Read more…
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