This podcast is sustained by sales of our debut book, Meow: A Novel (For Cats). Episode 4: Jennette McCurdy, Tik-Tok and the Will to Parricide In this episode, your cat will be given an overview of Jennette McCurdy's hit memoir, I'm Glad My Mom Died. We then explore the psychological implications of this stark account of parental abuse's runaway success among the "booktok" and "bookstagram" set. The book's opening image - a Munchean tableaux of dying mother and ambivalent, psychically immured daughter - is discussed at length. The weight of a generation's collective gaze upon Mother's perishing flesh, and the Freudian / algorithmic double-binds which see its members vacillating between dire self-abnegation and collective grandiosity can only be expressed by meowing thousands of times, without refrain, for over thirty minutes. MEOW is the first and only literary podcast for your cat, conceived and presented in its native language. This podcast is sustained by sales of our debut book, Meow: A Novel (For Cats). Praise for Meow: A Novel "Breathtaking... a revelation." - Stubbs, Unaltered Domestic Shorthair "Meow meow meow meow meow, meow meow meow. Meow? Meow." - Joan Didion Follow us on Instagram: @meowliterature and Facebook: facebook.com/themeowlibrary

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