Subject of famous/infamous New Yorker "Cat Person" short story revealed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Even the Cat Person author herself told the Slate writer upon confrontation: “I’ve spent the past several days struggling with the question of how to balance what is right for me with what I owe you.”

I mean, barf. Just barf. Such entitlement and self-importance from Roupenian.

I graduated from Michigan 25 yrs ago. The story made Ann Arbor and UM immediately recognizable to me and to my fellow grads, even before seeing Roupenian did her MFA there. I assure you, that despite being a large school, those of us from creative-focused and/or writing-focused circles ... are not a large far-flung group. People immediately started asking: Who is this about. We knew we were one or two degrees of separation from real people in a real story.

Good on Alexis for writing this AND for recognizing Roupenian's line about incels coming after her and the story being a safety risk as just that -- an attempt at guilt and manipulation.

Sorry but a fiction writer can mind whatever the hell they want. No apologies are owed

Guess you never heard “just because you can, doesn’t mean you should” or applied it to your life, eh.

[Anonymous]

So the trailer for the movie based on the story is out:

It looks like they greatly expand the story and turn it into a bit of a thriller, which actually sounds like a bad artistic choice that will make the movie kind of dull and ruin the dramatic intent of the short story. But it's hard to turn a short story into a movie sometimes, and I don't think this one was chosen because it's well suited. It was only chosen because it's the rare short story that got talked about for weeks in mainstream circles and generated both controversy and buzz.

I do like that Cousin Greg got cast as the guy. That's a really solid choice.

[Anonymous]

The fact that they made a movie based on this story now makes me wonder if somewhere someone is working on a script based on Bad Art Friend.

[Anonymous]

Just saying, but I like the essay much better.

And yes, the short story portrayed the male character badly. I actually felt sorry for him.

[Anonymous]

Very on the nose the cast Nicholas Braun as the potentially creepy guy since he's an allegedly creepy guy IRL