“Cat Person”: Kind of the Girls of Short Stories

As it’s been stated several times since the publication of Kristen Roupenian’s “Cat Person” in The New Yorker, short stories aren’t typically the sort of medium to go “viral,” the way, say, a child biting another child’s finger can. But then, no one of the present epoch had ever seen the “salacious” value the written word could still invoke in the hearts of straights perhaps wanting … Continue reading “Cat Person”: Kind of the Girls of Short Stories

The State of Literature: Lena Dunham Releasing Another Book

It was one thing for Lena Dunham to appoint herself as the representative for North Brooklyn by finagling Girls onto airwaves thanks to the clout of having certain parents and New York standing, but it was quite another for her to say simply, “Hey, I feel like releasing a book.” That “book” (but really memoir), Not That Kind of Girl, addressed with appropriate vitriol in Issue Four … Continue reading The State of Literature: Lena Dunham Releasing Another Book