MEOW: A Literary Podcast for Cats

This podcast is sustained by sales of our debut book, Meow: A Novel (For Cats). Episode 5: Ottessa Moshfegh, Feline-Borne Illness, and the Evolution of Human Consciousness In 2007, a chance attack by a street cat changed the trajectory of Ottessa Moshfegh’s life, supplying the impetus for her career-defining enrollment in Brown University’s Creative Writing program. In her own words, “[Cat-scratch fever] was an experience that matured me…. I had and have a very keen sense that my time on this planet

This podcast is sustained by sales of our debut book, Meow: A Novel (For Cats). Episode 4: Jennette McCurdy, Tik-Tok and the Will to Parricide In this episode, your cat will be given an overview of Jennette McCurdy's hit memoir, I'm Glad My Mom Died.  We then explore the psychological implications of this stark account of parental abuse's runaway success among the "booktok" and "bookstagram" set. The book's opening image - a  Munchean tableaux of dying mother and

This podcast is sustained by sales of our debut book, Meow: A Novel (For Cats). Episode 2: The Twilight World, Heat 2, and the Economics of the Cinematic Novel In  this episode, your cat will be given a close-up on a dying artform through the lens of several filmmakers-cum-literati, including Michael Mann, Quentin Tarantino, Brian De Palma, and Werner Herzog. Have these world-class auteurs become true believers in the primacy of the written word, or are they simply victims  of a sclerotic

This podcast is sustained by sales of our debut book, Meow: A Novel (For Cats). Episode 2: William Blake, Golgonooza, and Pathological Narcissistic Space In this episode, your cat will be given an overview of William Blake's cosmogony, with emphasis on Golgonooza, a phantasmagoric London where imagination reigns supreme. Is this landscape conceived of genius, or are we being coursed along the topology of a disordered mind? Exegesis unfolds by way of thousands of scrupulously considered meows,

This podcast is sustained by sales of our debut book, Meow: A Novel (For Cats).Episode 1: Hanya Yanagihara, Jacques Lacan, and Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty In this episode, your cat will be introduced to the Lacanian themes undergirding Hanya Yanagihara's work, A Little Life in particular. Topics include the politics of victimhood, metonymyzation of desire, and performative readings of A Little Life in Silver Lake cafés (cover splayed wide, spine rigid with disuse, dust jacket artfully