After inspiring a cacophony of venom on Twitter, an exhausting avalanche of hot takes and a chasm of opinion between those who think it is a work of genius and those who consider it misandrist drivel, is there anyone left who is still a Cat Person person? The New Yorker short fiction by Kristen Roupenian follows the stilted romance of Margot and Robert, whose ultimately unfulfilling relationship is fuelled only by the power of text message banter. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Spared the internet sleuthing ... Brokeback Mountain author Annie Proulx. Robert, meanwhile, obsesses over Margot’s sexual history, invents imaginary men to compete with for her time and ends the story (spoiler alert) by calling her a whore. Roupenian told the New Yorker that the story was inspired by a “small but nasty encounter I had with a person I met online”.

Source: The Guardian December 13, 2017 16:18 UTC