Twitter is getting excited over a short story, of all things
It’s rare these days that anyone has the patience to read anything over 250 words, let alone discuss its artistic merits on a public platform. But that’s exactly what happened this weekend when Twitter got uncharacteristically excited over a new short story published in The New Yorker. “Cat Person” by Kristen Roupenian tells the story of 20-year-old Margot who goes on a particularly bad date after meeting and corresponding with 34-year-old Robert. But, more than that, it’s a story about the disparity between who we imagine a person to be after only talking to them via text and who that person actually is in real life. That aspect, in addition to the vividly accurate description of bad first date sex, seems to be what resonates with readers most.