I spy a CAT sticker. If you're at AWP, go grab one (and the book!)

Check out this new story from @rebeccavl.bsky.social which explores perceived vs real dangers, friendship, and the anxiety of the "perfect" lake day, from @variantlit.bsky.social issue 22

omg thank you for posting it here WELL BEFORE ME

why does car insurance work better than health insurance!!!!!

Honoured to be part of this phenomenal new issue of @trashcatlit.bsky.social, thank you @therelphian.bsky.social!

My story Down Goes the Plant was inspired by @rebeccavl.bsky.social amazing memoir CAT, out with Bloomsbury Academic. Do read it, fellow cat people!!!!
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I am such a fan of the Object Lessons series, and this is such a beautiful entry. Thank you @rebeccavl.bsky.social!

Such a pleasure to chat with @jennlynnjordan.bsky.social about CAT!

If contemplative narratives, cultural critique and feline themes topped your Wrapped, @rebeccavl.bsky.social’s “Cat” fits right in.

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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #157: Rebecca van Laer "While I’ve published essays, most of my writing before 'Cat' was in the realm of autofiction, where there’s plausible deniability that I share a narrator’s more unlikeable traits (and actions)."

Me! In @memoirland.bsky.social ! Talking about my history with diaries (and LiveJournal), the fork in the road that took me from autofiction to memoir, and my advice on navigating the sticky truths of nonfiction (and publishing).

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Is it wrong to apply for a residency for "nature writers" with your novel about environmental toxins 🌳

Why does Meta thing I have TMJ? Facial recognition or context clues?

Rebecca van Laer Writing to make sense of things feels both prophylactic (I will process an event, a thought in a safe space) and at times a little dangerous (Is it safe? what will happen as I bore further and further...

Thrilled to be in @fullstopmag.bsky.social today talking about CAT, my bee venom allergy, writing as immunization to past and future pain, and the long process of finding a project's heart.

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So lovely to be interviewed by Miranda @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social — and for CAT (from @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social) to be selected as Book of the Day 🐱

Would love to tell my 17-y-o self that my 37-y-o self is the author of two books, one about cats, who spent Halloween weekend at a Battle of the Cover Bands ft. The Dead Boys and DNA

yayyyy

REVIEW: Cat by Rebecca van Laer | Hippocampus Magazine "...if you are... a cat lover to a mere cat appreciator, you will find what I did in this book: pure delight." -- from our review of Cat by Rebecca van Laer.

NEW BOOK REVIEW: Rae Pagliarulo reviews Cat by Rebecca van Laer, part of Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series. Read it here: hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/10/review-cat-by-re...

Everything is Unnatural These Days In an interview with author Rebecca van Laer below, editor Cheryl Rivera asks what you’ve all been wondering: are pets slaves?

In this @readlux.bsky.social interview, Rebecca van Laer explored people’s relationships with their pets.

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great cat

Thank you Eileen!!!

Author Rebecca van Laer, seated in a leather chair, wearing a black dress covered with printed drawings of kittens, holding her book CAT (a black book with a white cat on the cover)

It's national cat day! I know the perfect way to celebrate....

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Proof!!! Of fame!!!

Telling our new veterinarian "just so you know you're treating a celebrity"

Animal Memoirs Gone Wild - Orion Magazine What we can learn from more domestic forms of intimacy with nature

What would motivate you more to change your behaviors to save wildlife: a book about elephants, a book about the wild fauna in your own backyard, or a book about your pet? Would any? Rebecca van Laer sifts through the noise.

Everything is Unnatural These Days In an interview with author Rebecca van Laer below, editor Cheryl Rivera asks what you’ve all been wondering: are pets slaves?

Today I'm interviewed in Lux Magazine newsletter, wherein Cheryl Rivera and I discuss whether pets are slaves, animal consciousness, and whether unconditional love exists. (These are all topics of CAT btw!!!!)

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awwww thank you suzy!!

CAT book by Rebecca van Laer

Been looking forward to this one! by @rebeccavl.bsky.social whose writing I fell in love with in her Long Day Press book How to Adjust to the Dark

Another little excerpt of CAT, out now from Bloomsbury 🐱

Hand holding up a copy of Rebecca van Laer's book 'Cat' in front of foliage seen through a window.

Shelf containing the Bloomsbury Object Lessons series, all with black spines and colourful titles. Rebecca van Laer's CAT is facing out to the camera.

Rebecca van Laer's CAT held in front of a triple window facing trees from above. The book cover shoes a pensive green eyed white cat.

Can't possibly recommend Rebecca van Laer's CAT enough, and so thrilled to reread now I've grabbed myself a hard copy from the Gower St Waterstones. Cat people unite -- this is such a smart, sensitive, and thoughtful book. Read it!!

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What Our Relationship With Cats Reveals About Ourselves One fantasy that comes up again and again: I wish cats ruled the world.  When we imagine this alternate reality, all our favorite projections blur together in a vague impression of what might be—a …

“I do not think love comes easily to me—love for people, that is. For cats, who have been accused of loving back too little or not at all, it is a different story.” Rebecca van Laer on what humans can learn from our relationships with cats.

Animal Memoirs Gone Wild What we can learn from more domestic forms of intimacy with nature

Can memoirs about native and common wildlife spark more action and awe than the stories of the “charismatic megafauna” that so often act as poster children for the conservation movement? Rebecca van Laer investigates the new trend in publishing.