Kristen Roupenian's short story "Cat Person" was published by The New Yorker in December 2017. Immediately viral, the story was The New Yorker’s second most-read story that year.

"Cat Person" was about a bad date, and based on the internet's reaction, so much more. Director Susanna Fogel unpacks bringing the 2017 short story to the screen.

A tale like the one told in “Cat Person,” Kristen Roupenian’s viral New Yorker short story, no longer feels remarkable.Its plainspoken account of a college girl’s ill-fated relationship ...

For the first two-thirds, “Cat Person” sticks close to the plot of the short story, and efforts to pad out its details are a mixed bag. Margot’s roommate (Geraldine Viswanathan) gets a ...

The shape of “Cat Person” is a bigger obstacle. A good short story is like an epiphany on an elevator ride. It evokes the characters in a few deft strokes, imbuing their brief lives on the ...

In Susanna Fogel’s Cat Person, the film adaptation of Kristen Roupenian’s viral short story of the same name, what was “terrifyingly ordinary” on the page (to use the well-chosen words of ...