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Rebecca van Laer
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Novella: How to Adjust to the Dark, Long Day Press | Next book: Cat, Object Lessons/Bloomsbury | Work in Joyland, The New England Review, The Florida Review, etc. | 🐱🌿🐔
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.

www.full-stop.net/2025/11/11/i...
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...
www.full-stop.net
November 11, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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 🐱
Rebecca van Laer, "Cat" (Bloomsbury, 2025) - New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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
November 1, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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NEW BOOK REVIEW: Rae Pagliarulo reviews Cat by Rebecca van Laer, part of Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series. Read it here: https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/10/review-cat-by-rebecca-van-laer/
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.
hippocampusmagazine.com
October 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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In this @readlux.bsky.social interview, Rebecca van Laer explored people’s relationships with their pets.

Read the full story: https://bit.ly/47hHhre

#BookSky #LiteraryStudies @bloomsburylit.bsky.social
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?
lux-magazine.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
It's national cat day! I know the perfect way to celebrate....

www.bloomsbury.com/us/cat-97987...
October 29, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Telling our new veterinarian "just so you know you're treating a celebrity"
October 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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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.
Animal Memoirs Gone Wild - Orion Magazine
What we can learn from more domestic forms of intimacy with nature
orionmagazine.org
October 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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!!!!)

lux-magazine.com/lux-for-life...
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?
lux-magazine.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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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
October 16, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Another little excerpt of CAT, out now from Bloomsbury 🐱
"Our first winter upstate, we hear a shifting and settling inside the wall. We know it is real—an animal—because our cat Toby goes and stands by that stretch of baseboard."

Rebecca van Laer with Object Lessons Impressions on the Cat. pghrev.com/cat/
Cat - Pittsburgh Review of Books
Our first winter upstate, we hear a shifting and settling inside the wall. We know it is real—an animal—because our cat Toby goes and stands by that stretch
pghrev.com
October 15, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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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!!

@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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“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.
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 …
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September 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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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.
Animal Memoirs Gone Wild
What we can learn from more domestic forms of intimacy with nature
orionmagazine.org
October 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I've become the thing I hate most...someone bad at replying to email
September 8, 2025 at 6:31 PM
How do you get your dad to stop sending you AI art
August 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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August 29, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Why does it feel like fall!!!
August 29, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Found out my publisher hired my preferred audiobook narrator by Googling myself and finding a pre-order link at an Italian bookstore. This is how it's supposed to work, right?
August 28, 2025 at 9:06 PM
So how often does PT make everyone ELSE cry
August 28, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Hand-sold my book to my gynecologist. That is commitment 🐱
August 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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August 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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In case this isn’t obvious: In a healthy political system, if officials released a hyped report on health policy, and the document relied on scientific sources that didn’t exist, those officials would be expected to resign — quickly. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
The Trump administration’s ‘MAHA Report’ cites nonexistent scientific studies
There's new evidence that the White House's “The MAHA Report: Making Our Children Healthy Again” relied in part on scientific research that doesn't exist.
www.msnbc.com
May 29, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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welp I sent an email
May 24, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Tried to reduce my em-dash usage; realized colons and semicolons are just as frequent 😅
April 9, 2025 at 2:54 PM