“Itchy.” Kristen Roupenian describes her writing process like the hunt for an invisible bug bite. “There’s something I don’t really get, that’s bothering me, that I’m feeling but can’t articulate — ...

It was the piece of fiction heard round the net. This October, it jumped off the medium-sized screens and headed to the big screen. "Cat Person," the new film based on the short story by Kristen ...

In Kristen Roupenian’s story “Cat Person,” a college student, Margot, meets an older man, Robert, at the movie theater where she works. They flirt over text messages devoid of real information, then ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ‘Cat Person’ focused on a man and woman who shared a problematic sexual encounter (Getty) It was December 2017, and I’d had three ...

Reasonably adequate movies are made from mediocre books or stories all the time. But once in a while, you get an adaptation so misguided that it makes even its not-so-nuanced source material look like ...

When the New Yorker published a short story titled “Cat Person” in December 2017, writer Kristen Roupenian’s tale of a toxic romance went viral in a way that literary fiction rarely does. The story of ...

Director Susanna Fogel and screenwriter Michelle Ashford worried that Kristen Roupenian's unsettling #MeToo tale was unfilmable, so they decided the best course of action was to lean into the story’s ...

A college sophomore's relationship with an older man turns sour fast in Susanna Fogel's film based on Kristen Roupenian's story. By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture Critic Like most viral internet ...