Beautifully crafted and deliciously catty tales
Kristen Roupenian has that rarest of skills as a short story writer - she delivers stories that hook you from the first paragraph, grabbing like a burr caught on a wool jumper
Fiction: You Know You Want This, By Kristen Roupenian, Penguin, €14.95
You probably don’t know Kristen Roupenian’s name just yet - but you may well know her story.
Roupenian is the woman who wrote Cat Person, a short story that was published by the New Yorker magazine and within days became a smash across the internet, landing on Facebook pages and Twitter accounts and generating endless media debate. It catapulted Roupenian - a ...
