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“... for writing about sex, and as a marketing tool for writing about sex, particularly post #MeToo. Kristen Roupenian’s debut short story collection, You Know You Want This, attempts to jump on this bandwagon and at the same time tip it over. She ends up driving it in a circle. A deliberate mixture of body horror, psychological realism and fantasy, the ...”

“... its reception reminded me of the way last year’s New Yorker short story ‘Cat Person’ by Kristen Roupenian went viral. The frenzy surrounding the publication of that story involved the pleasant surprise that a work of literature (that happened to be written by a woman) had made such a splash on the attention-deficit internet. But in fact it was ...”

“... of the confusion she says she feels. (Several authors, including Sally Rooney, Garth Greenwell and Kristen Roupenian, have used BDSM to dramatise such shifting power relations in recent fiction.) In many understandings of BDSM, if all goes well, the sub has some power. After dictating their safe words and limits, they just have to do what they’re ...”