The Brian Lehrer Show

Kristen Roupenian, author of the short story "Cat Person," included in the new collection, You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories (Soho Press, 2019), talks about her latest book.

"The vitriol of some of the more male responses was surprising, though maybe it shouldn’t have been, when you put it in the larger context of what it's like to be a woman writing about sex on the internet," says @KRoupenian on when her @NewYorker story, "Cat Person," went viral. pic.twitter.com/YrkLJFhTO0

"I think that’s a thing women tend to do, which is to think that it’s their responsibility to explain everything that has happened to them to people who just resolutely refuse to get it, and it’s not," says @KRoupenian.

→ EVENTS: See Kristen tonight, Monday, January 14th, at 7PM with Haley Mlotek at The Strand Bookstore. More information here. And she'll be in conversation with Rebecca Traister, Thursday, January 17, 7:30 PM. Tickets are $30 and available here.