This podcast is a presentation of The Meow Library.

In this week’s podcast, we investigate the hype parade leading up to the release of Madeline Cash’s Lost Lambs, easily the most anticipated novel of 2026. This is not so much a review of the book (there are plenty of those) as it is of Cash’s PR team, which is the real work of art here. How does an author rise from obscurity to the upper echelons of English literature—replete with comparisons to Franzen and Pynchon—in the space of one book? And are those comparisons merited? You won’t find out here: we hired Cash’s PR team to funnel you to this podcast, which is a 30-minute recording of a man meowing like a cat. You have already clicked on it. You’ve already heard the first meows. And now you will buy our book.

Lost Lambs is available via Macmillan Publishers.

This podcast is supported by the alarmingly growing sales of Meow: A Novel.

This podcast is a production of The Meow Library.

Jennette McCurdy's new book has us at a loss for words. Some things are simply unspeakable, as this podcast makes plain.

Jennette McCurdy's Half His Age is available through Penguin Random House and wherever books are sold.

For less transgressive fare, we suggest The Meow Library's new translations of Wuthering Heights and Pride & Prejudice.

This podcast is a presentation of The Meow Library.

We've seen the trailer for Emerald Fennel's upcoming Wuthering Heights, and we're concerned. Cheap props, bizarre casting, flat lighting, Charli XCX. At what point does an adaptation--or "reimagining," in Fennel's words--start to cheapen the source material? Does the public debase the public domain? Questions to ponder as you listen to this segment of The Meow Library's new translation of Wuthering Heights.

The Meow Library's Wuthering Heights (For Your Cat)--a word-for-word "meowifying" of Bronte's original text--is available now on Amazon.

This podcast is a presentation of The Meow Library.

Yesterday marked the 213th anniversary of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, along with the release of a new translation that erases its most glaring prejudice: that against feline literacy. In this podcast, you'll learn how The Meow Library is reshaping Jane Austen's catalogue to optimize for cross-species accessibility, and why this is the most significant update in the book's long publication history.

Pride and Prejudice (For Your Cat) is available on Amazon.

This podcast is a presentation of The Meow Library.

"The saints, saviors, priests, gurus, bhagavans, seers, prophets and philosophers were all wrong, as far as I am concerned. As long as you harbor any hope or faith in these authorities, living or dead, so long this certainty cannot be transmitted to you. This certainty somehow dawns on you when you see for yourself that all of them are wrong. When you see this for yourself for the first time, you explode."

- Mind is a Myth: Disquieting Conversations with the Man Called U.G.

"My teaching, if that is the word you want to use, has no copyright. You are free to reproduce, distribute, interpret, misinterpret, distort, garble, do what you like, even claim authorship, without my consent or the permission of anybody."

- Copyright notice prefacing many of U.G. Krishnamurti's published interviews

In a classic 1986 interview, anarchic "anti-guru" U.G. Krishnamurti, upon seeing a cat, famously remarks, "there is no difference between the cat and you." What did he mean? Today's podcast digs into this insight with Krishnamurti's trademark disdain for such activities.

This podcast is made possible by continued appreciation of our international bestseller, Meow: A Novel.

This podcast is a presentation of The Meow Library. 


According to a recent Popsugar article, “bookfishing”—the literary equivalent of “catfishing,” is on the rise. Bookfishing involves simple dissimulation: the perpetrator poses with a high-status book they have no intention of reading in order to lure the bookish element of the opposite sex. While a nuisance in the dating scene, bookfishing has more serious implications in markets like Washington, D.C., where many of our famously literate government officials have fallen victim to its snare. An anonymous source within the Trump administration claims that airdrops of the popular Meow Library series, which renders literary classics as hundreds of pages of the word “meow,” have begun appearing near sensitive government sites. These are speculated to be part of a far-reaching bookfishing plot perpetrated by a hostile foreign government. 


As a public service, this week’s podcast presents several excerpts from this series to ease in the identification of potential high-level bookfishers. Listen, learn, and remain vigilant.

This podcast is sustained by sales of the ultimate bookfishing tool: Meow: A Novel.

This podcast is a presentation of The Meow Library.

“But a humble paperback is not perceived as bad for humanity in the way that time wasted online is. While internet users install app-blocking extensions to prevent the embarrassing loop earlier described, reading remains culturally coded as virtuous, no matter how numbing and anti-intellectual the content.”

– Greta Rainbow, “How ‘Cozy Lit’ Became the Latest and Most Shameless Form of Digital Escapism”

A “strange new plague from the depths of Asia,” to borrow an image from Raskolnikov’s purifying nightmare in Crime and Punishment, has descended on the literary world: “Cozy Lit.” Originating in Japan and South Korea, Cozy Lit has its tropes. “There should be cats. There should be books in the book…. More cats. There are actually so many cats,” says critic Greta Rainbow in her takedown of the genre for Canada’s The Walrus. “This is vibes-based prose, meant to wash over you—a gentle titillation or linguistic ASMR, not because the prose is magnificent but rather it’s lulling, the literary equivalent of watching someone slice butter on TikTok. Episodic, formulaic, reliably satisfying.”

The genre's conventions mirror a highly successful evolutionary strategy deployed by the common house cat—repetitive, predictable vocalizations that lull its human caretaker into a state of suggestibility by hijacking the brain’s language centers. Cozy Lit, ASMR, and social media scrolls, as Rainbow points out, all rely on similarly nullifying content to keep audiences hooked. In theory, a book or audio presentation consisting only of pure feline vocalizations—an extraordinarily successful language interface subjected to tens of thousands of years of refinement—should be the coziest lit of all, outperforming genre stalwarts such as Before the Coffee Gets Cold (8 million copies sold), The Convenience Store by the Sea (500k+ copies), and The Pumpkin Spice Café (250k+ copies).

Can this latest literary be credibly likened to by a form of hypnosis perpetrated by domestic animals? Would reading or listening to such material still be considered virtuous? In this week's podcast, we put these ideas to the test. Prepare to get cozy.

This podcast is sustained by sales of the worldwide literary sensation Meow: A Novel, which repeats the word “meow” over 80,000 times, and nothing else.

Greta Rainbow’s writings can be found on her website.

This podcast is a presentation of The Meow Library.

"...at least I did not have to worry about the worm that was not a worm in his brain."

- Olivia Nuzzi on RFK Jr., excerpted from American Canto

"I am worried about the worm in her brain."

- Anonymous literary editor, reacting to excerpt from American Canto

"At least it isn't the Meow book."

- Worm, upon eating through copy of American Canto

According to its publisher Simon & Schuster, Olivia Nuzzi's American Canto is "a mesmerizing firsthand account of the warping of American reality... from a participatory witness who got so far inside the distortion field that it swallowed her whole."

Venture further into the distortion field as we translate Vanity Fair's excerpt of American Canto for your cat.

This podcast is sustained by sales of our debut book, Meow: A Novel.

Olivia Nuzzi's American Canto is available through Simon & Schuster.