MEOW: A Literary Podcast for Cats

Oct 11 2024 34 ep. 28 mins 1

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34. Han Kang's Nobel Prize Controversy: A Translator's Perspective

Oct 11 2024 26 mins

This podcast is a presentation of The Meow Library. Han Kang's The Vegetarian can be purchased here. The basis of Nobel laureate Han Kang's The Vegetarian is a line by Korean poet Yi Sang: "I believe that humans should be plants." But some, like today's interviewee, believe that humans should be cats. A Meow Library translator has taken exception to Han Kang being awarded the 20

33. Sally Rooney's Intermezzo: Love Under the Specter of Marx

Sep 26 2024 26 mins

This podcast is a presentation of The Meow Library. Sally Rooney's Intermezzo is available here. Over and over, Rooney’s characters put their faith in love as a means of escape from the conventional roles assigned to them by society and by each other; no sooner have they achieved this than they are rudely confronted with inequalities of wealth, status and power that are cle

32. Matthew Davis, Let Me Try Again, and the Gen Z Superego

Aug 21 2024 29 mins

This podcast is a presentation of ⁠The Meow Library⁠. Matthew Davis's ⁠Let Me Try Again⁠ can be purchased ⁠here⁠. Matthew Davis's Let Me Try Again is a hilarious, deeply human look Gen Z's calamitous superego. It opens on a suicidal fantasy, quickly giving way to a dense and dizzying edifice of self-recrimination — centered, in true Zoomer fashion, on t

31. Caroline Calloway, Scammer, and Feline Virality

Aug 13 2024 27 mins

This podcast is a presentation of The Meow Library. Caroline Calloway's Scammer can be purchased here. Known as the original social media provocateur, Caroline Calloway has spun a staggering media empire from her controversial Instagram presence. Praised and reviled in equal measure, her long-awaited Scammer belongs to the emerging canon of the "Paper Internet" --

30. Gabi Abrão (@sighswoon), Notes on Shapeshifting, and the Poetics of Feline Vocalization

May 30 2024 37 mins

This podcast is a presentation of The Meow Library. Gabi Abrão's Notes on Shapeshifting can be purchased here. In a meditation class in high school, our teacher told us to pick our place. This teacher, who did past life regression on dogs and had created a secret holistic elective under the guise of what she told her superiors would be a course on "the history of alt

29. Millie Bobby Brown, Nineteen Steps, and the Role of the Ghostwriter

Sep 22 2023 29 mins

Today's podcast covers Stranger Things actress-turned-literary wunderkind Millie Bobby Brown's breathtakingly ghostwritten Nineteen Steps, which is being unfairly panned as an exploitative, juvenile cash-in. Find out why it's anything but in this eloquent, 3000-word apologia, ghostwritten by my cat. This podcast is a presentation of The Meow Library: https://meowlibra

28. Cormac McCarthy's Final Interview

Jun 14 2023 26 mins

This exclusive interview is a presentation of The Meow Library. “. . .but in any case the selﬁmmolatory tendencies of cats does seem to be a known factor in the feline equation. Noted in the writings of Asclepius, among others of the ancients. Jesus, said Seals. It would seem to contradict Unamuno, though. Right, Squire? His dictum that cats reason more than they weep? Of cour

27. The Writers Guild of America (WGA) Strike, ChatGPT, and the Future of Entertainment

May 04 2023 25 mins

This podcast is sponsored by Sam Austen's Meow Library. On May 1st, the Writers Guild of America commenced a strike, effecting an industry-wide suspension of film and television production. With the entertainment industry already in crisis, this strike speaks to the urgency of the matter at hand -- namely, the rights of individual authors in a fast-evolving media landscape whe

26. Norman Mailer's Truth and Being: A Paean to Excrement and the Spirit of Meow

Mar 08 2023 28 mins

This podcast is a presentation of The Meow Library. Today, we present your cat with selections from Norman Mailer's "Truth and Being: Nothing and Time," first collected in The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer (1967). Many consider this to be his finest (e)sc(h)atological work. An English-language transcript follows:[It] was left for me to return to the rootless disord

25. Roald Dahl, Alberto Gullaba, Jr., and a Modest Proposal for Sensitivity Readers

Mar 02 2023 25 mins

This podcast is a production of The Meow Library. Last week, Puffin, an imprint of Penguin Books, announced the release of ‘updated’ editions of Roald Dahl’s classic children’s stories, featuring a slew of questionable alterations to the original text, ostensibly attuned to modern sensibilities, but baffling - if not downright insulting - to casual readers and hardcore Dah