Sam Austen's Blog

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).

We're assigning stray cats to represent books in the 2026 Booker Prize longlist and having them duke it out in a Battle Royale.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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 did - and it waited."

These indispensable texts, now rendered as tens of thousands of richly considered “meows,” have the power to reshape the nation’s ideas of liberty, God-given rights, and feline representation—concepts any cat, with its inclination toward radical self-sovereignty, is naturally prepared to appreciate.

Jamir Nazir, winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize (Caribbean Region) for “The Serpent in the Grove,” has agreed to speak to The Meow Library and dispel once and for all rumors that AI had been used in generating his story, and even his identity.

UK stalwart The Guardian has drawn from more than 100 authors and critics to develop a list of the ⁠100 best novels of all time⁠. While many of the greats are present and accounted for, some of their picks are sure to draw controversy, especially ⁠Meow: A Novel⁠, ranked seventeenth.