The Odyssey's Script Supervisor Reveals Nolan's Use of "Meow Book" in Crafting His Blockbuster
A man claiming to be Christopher Nolan's script supervisor recently uploaded an Instagram Reel in which he described his experience working with the visionary director, which included choosing the translation of Homer's epic the movie would source from: Sam Austen's Meow Library translation, The Meow Library presents: The Odyssey (For Your Cat).
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2026 Booker Prize Battle Royale: Longlist Announcement
We're assigning stray cats to represent books in the 2026 Booker Prize longlist and having them duke it out in a Battle Royale.
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Anthropic is Destroying Rare Books to Train Their AI. Here’s How to Stop Them.
Recent X posts are bringing awareness to Anthropic’s secret plan to dismantle millions of rare books in order to scan them into their LLMs. How can we stop them?
Jul 282 min read
Dua Lipa Opens a Library of Banned Books—and It’s Not Just for Humans
Pop star and book-club maven Dua Lipa has just announced the Manifesto Library, a permanent collection of one hundred books that have been banned, censored, or seriously challenged at some point in their publication cycle. Housed inside Porto’s historic Livraria Lello and organized into four sections—Control, Voice, Memory, and Power—the library is intended as a celebration of literature that has attracted controversy for asking inconvenient questions.
Jul 161 min read
Forget Nolan’s Movie: The Meow Library’s Odyssey Adaptation Teaches Your Cat to Read
Upset by the myriad historical inaccuracies present in Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey adaptation, The Meow Library’s chief translator, Sam Austen, has worked tirelessly to publish his own version of the Odyssey ahead of the film’s premiere. This new translation, consisting entirely of variations of the word “meow,” just might teach your cat to be more literate than today’s film directors.
Jul 132 min read
Adapting The Odyssey: An Exclusive Interview With Christopher Nolan's Cat
The Meow Library has secured an exclusive interview with Christopher Nolan's cat, Felicity, who discusses the process by which her owner "re-engineered" Homer's Odyssey for contemporary audiences, and how his understanding of the material was enhanced by a copy of The Meow Library's Odyssey translation.
Jul 131 min read
AI Wins Harper's Bazaar's Short Story Contest: Should We Forgive Kavyata Kay?
Twitter user Nabeel S. Qureshi was quick to identify the winner of the 2026 Harper's Bazaar Short Story Competition, Back and Forth, ostensibly by "Kavyata Kay," as largely, if not entirely, AI-generated. The panel of Bazaar judges, which included novelist Ruth Ozeki, are not so quick to cast aspersions, denying, as of this writing, any knowledge of AI involvement. The Meow Library team was unable to get past the story's first line, which is "The tree knew before she di
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