It was the piece of fiction heard round the net. This October, it jumped off the medium-sized screens and headed to the big screen. 'Cat Person,' the new film based on the short story by Kristen Roupenian, is reviving the discourse that took over the internet five years ago. The movie stars Nicholas Braun , and Emilia Jones , and is tense, intriguing and verging on horror.
'I say this as a person who has a huge respect for the magazine, but young female stories are not usually elevated into the mainstream literary conversation in that way.' No matter the conversation, people were talking, and that's what drew Fogel in further. 'At first, it was just reading this incredible story, but also it was the narrative that came from the cultural impact of it,' she says.