The Spatial Dynamics of 'Cat Person'
Most of the ongoing debate around Kristen Roupenian’s viral short story “Cat Person,” published in The New Yorker in December 2017, focuses on character motivations, unreliability, consent, and misogyny in literature, the nebulous Venn diagram of fiction and creative nonfiction, and the ethical repercussions of copy-pasting telling details about a person who might (and did)