416 - WMTBG? - Cat Person (Part II)

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Society & Culture, Arts

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

My discussion of "Cat Person," by Kristen Roupenian. The story 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 share physical space -- but are miles apart.

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Music: “Brightside of the Sun,” by Basin and Range; “Mean Flower,” by Joe Henry.

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0:00.0	Radio Mano, Papa Tchango
0:30.2	L Owrlva es국 de ogc습니다
0:34.0	Musica Yes to the End
0:37.3	I was just tired of hearing my own voice
0:40.2	And I'd been reading for an hour
0:42.0	And I felt like let's just let it go
0:45.1	But then, um but then later
0:47.8	I realised that I hadn't
0:49.5	Really unpacked the story
0:52.7	pneumonia
0:55.2	I tried periodically at the beginning
0:58.3	The story
1:00.3	I just sort of
1:02.3	Throughout some opinions and didn't really talk about why I feel it's so important
1:07.0	And some of the techniques
1:09.0	That make the story so powerful
1:12.0	So I wanted to revisit the story a little bit today
1:15.7	Cat Person
1:17.0	By Kristen Rupenian
1:19.0	If you haven't listened to part one of
1:22.2	This
1:24.2	Two-part episode of what makes
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