MEOW: A Literary Podcast for Cats

This podcast is sustained by sales of our book series for cats, The Meow Library . Episode 12: Jerry Saltz: Art Is Life - An Excerpt for Your Cat Released today, Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Jerry Saltz's signature wit, levity, and insight unfolds as a dizzying panorama of the contemporary art scene in Art is Life . Touching yet informative, Saltz's latest effort is sure to resonate w...

This podcast is sustained by sales of our debut book, Meow: A Novel (For Cats) . Episode 11: Brad Phillips, Patricia Highsmith, and Clifford Irving Brad Phillips is a Canadian author and fine artist whose recent collection of “Essays and Fictions” ( available here ) courts with – and immediately undermines – an autobiographical reading, alluding repeatedly to the author’s propensity for half-truth...

This podcast is sustained by sales of our debut book, Meow: A Novel (For Cats) . Episode 10: Caitlin Forst’s NDA, the Primacy of Autofiction, and the Rise of Otherspecies Narratives Today’s conversation turns at first to Caitlin Forst, editor of the upcoming NDA: An Autofiction Anthology and curator of a the NDA Autofiction Reading Series at Stories Books & Café in Los Angeles. She is also a f...

This podcast is sustained by sales of our debut book, Meow: A Novel (For Cats) .  Episode 9: Allie Rowbottom's Aesthetica , Erasure of the Flesh, and the Polymorphic Self Allie Rowbottom’s Aesthetica (available for preorder here ) is a near-future peek into the inevitable. At 35, rudderless and lost, the protagonist, a former Instagram influencer, undergoes a dicey elective procedure to erase...

This podcast is sustained by sales of our debut book, Meow: A Novel (For Cats) . Episode 8: Tao Lin’s Mandalas, Repetition Compulsion, and Hofstadter’s Labyrinth Today we discuss Tao Lin’s recently publicized mandala art as an extension of his literary practice. Known for its simple language, circularity, and psychedelic aloofness – biting yet airy, kaleidoscopic yet concise, concrete yet polymorp...

This podcast is sustained by sales of our debut book, Meow: A Novel (For Cats) . Episode 7: Chelsea Martin: Tell Me I'm an Artist, Simulacra, and False Consciousness In her newly released Tell Me I’m an Artist , Chelsea Martin’s obliquely autobiographical protagonist embarks upon a seemingly absurd project of self-disclosure, embodying the Self as a homebrew remake of Wes Anderson’s Rushmore ,...

This podcast is sustained by sales of our debut book, Meow: A Novel (For Cats) . Episode 6: Jordan Castro's The Novelist, Georges Bataille, and the Triumph of Fecality Today we discuss Jordan Castro’s divisive prose debut, paying particular attention to its unprecedented 22-page exposition of a single bowel movement: how it gives form to Bataille’s symbol of the ‘Solar Anus,’ and how this deve...

This podcast is sustained by sales of our debut book, Meow: A Novel (For Cats) . Episode 5: Ottessa Moshfegh, Feline-Borne Illness, and the Evolution of Human Consciousness In 2007, a chance attack by a street cat changed the trajectory of Ottessa Moshfegh’s life, supplying the impetus for her career-defining enrollment in Brown University’s Creative Writing program. In her own words, “[Cat-scratc...

This podcast is sustained by sales of our debut book, Meow: A Novel (For Cats) . Episode 4: Jennette McCurdy, Tik-Tok and the Will to Parricide In this episode, your cat will be given an overview of Jennette McCurdy's hit memoir, I'm Glad My Mom Died .  We then explore the psychological implications of this stark account of parental abuse's runaway success among the "booktok"...

This podcast is sustained by sales of our debut book, Meow: A Novel (For Cats) . Episode 2: The Twilight World, Heat 2, and the Economics of the Cinematic Novel In  this episode, your cat will be given a close-up on a dying artform through the lens of several filmmakers-cum-literati, including Michael Mann, Quentin Tarantino, Brian De Palma, and Werner Herzog. Have these world-class auteurs become...

This podcast is sustained by sales of our debut book, Meow: A Novel (For Cats) . Episode 2: William Blake, Golgonooza, and Pathological Narcissistic Space  In this episode, your cat will be given an overview of William Blake's cosmogony, with emphasis on Golgonooza, a phantasmagoric London where imagination reigns supreme. Is this landscape conceived of genius, or are we being coursed along th...

This podcast is sustained by sales of our debut book, Meow: A Novel (For Cats) . Episode 1: Hanya Yanagihara, Jacques Lacan, and Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty  In this episode, your cat will be introduced to the Lacanian themes undergirding Hanya Yanagihara's work, A Little Life in particular. Topics include the politics of victimhood, metonymyzation of desire, and performative readings of A...