415 - (WMTBG?) Cat Person - by Kristen Roupenian
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan
Chris Ryan
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2020
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
"Cat Person" offers a subtle, nuanced look at power, eroticism, and the confusion that often results when a man and a woman try (and fail) to understand each other, taking us inside the heads of people who are together -- and yet miles apart.
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Music: “Brightside of the Sun,” by Basin and Range; “Wicked Little High” by Bird York; “Lost Cause,” by Beck.
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| 0:00.0 | Radio Mano, Papa Tchango. |
| 0:02.3 | ؟ |
| 0:28.1 | Ladies and gentlemen, this is Uncle Chris back with another episode of what makes this book great another short story |
| 0:36.0 | This one's called cat person. It's by Kristen Ropinion. I hope I pronounced that right |
| 0:43.1 | ROUP EN IAN |
| 0:46.9 | This story appeared in New Yorker a while back |
| 0:50.6 | If you read the New Yorker you may have come across the story it's |
| 0:55.7 | It went viral online |
| 0:58.5 | A lot of people were talking about it for a couple of weeks. So it's possible that you already know about this story |
| 1:05.3 | I have to warn you it's |
| 1:08.1 | It might be a little weird hearing me read it because it's written |
| 1:13.7 | More or less from the perspective of a woman. It's an omniscient narrator |
| 1:19.4 | but the narrator is more in |
| 1:23.4 | The woman's head than anyone else's so hearing it coming from my deep and manly voice may be a bit of a |
| 1:32.1 | Mindfuck for you. I hope not |
| 1:35.1 | I found the story to be |
| 1:37.7 | immediately fascinating the first time I read it. It's about |
| 1:43.9 | dating power |
| 1:46.9 | In comprehension between men and women |
| 1:49.9 | and I think it examines these things in a very nuanced and |
| 1:59.9 | Ultimately fair way which I think is |
| 2:04.1 | hard to find I think there there are a lot of |
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