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01/09/2026

💌 COVER ANNOUNCEMENT 💌 We're excited to share the cover of Jennifer Croft's NOTES ON POSTCARDS, designed by Jaya Miceli with art direction by Nicole Caputo!

NOTES ON POSTCARDS goes on sale 8/4/26 and is available to preorder now!

About the book 📚
International Booker Prize-winning translator Jennifer Croft’s memoir of wanderlust, love, and motherhood seen through a lifelong collection of postcards.

Postcards have accompanied Jennifer Croft throughout her life, providing comfort, beauty, humor, and inspiration. When she left home for the first time, she used them to stay in touch with her grandmother. When she first fell in love with her husband, one of their first activities together was shopping for vintage postcards at a flea market. When she travelled the world for work and in wanderlust, she acquired a postcard in each place she went.

In this intimate and poetic memoir, Croft takes a closer look at her trusty companions, sharing her collection with the reader and documenting the lifespan and history of a beloved, if anachronistic, form of communication. Parallel to the story of postcards runs Croft’s own history of familial and romantic love and its culmination in her desire for a child, offers a glimpse into how we conceive of ourselves as connected beings in the world.

01/07/2026

Save the date! STRANGER IN THE DESERT author Jordan Salama will be in conversation with Samantha Ellis at 14th Street Y to celebrate the release of her book ALWAYS CARRY SALT.

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01/05/2026

Thrilled to see A REAL ANIMAL author Emeline Atwood listed as a 2026 Publishers Weekly writer to watch!

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At the beginning of the author’s debut novel, 'A Real Animal' (Catapult, July), the protagonist wakes up in her college dorm room to find herself transformed into a leopard.

12/22/2025

Lydi Conklin, author of SONGS OF NO PROVENANCE, discusses cancel culture, q***r identity, and trauma responses with Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB).

Lydi Conklin discusses cancel culture, q***r identity, and trauma responses with Anna Marie Cain.

12/20/2025

Michelle de Kretser's THEORY & PRACTICE is a The New York Times "Hidden Gem of 2025!"

"You don’t need to have gone to graduate school in the 1980s, or know your Derrida from your Deleuze, to revel in de Kretser’s sendup of an era when lumbering Apple desktops were considered a 'technology of enchantment' and scholars hopped up on theory waged war on politically suspect 'texts.' . . . A comic and, ultimately, moving window onto the universal human capacity for self-deception."

The staff of the Book Review recommends unforgettable books that made our personal best-of-the-year lists.

12/19/2025

🍽️ COVER ANNOUNCEMENT 🍽️ We're so excited to share the cover of Krys Malcolm Belc's forthcoming memoir WHAT I MADE FOR DINNER, designed by Farjana Yasmin with art direction by Nicole Caputo!

WHAT I MADE FOR DINNER hits bookstores on June 9, 2026 and is available for preorder now!

About the book 📚
From the author of THE NATURAL MOTHER OF THE CHILD, an exquisite memoir about an amateur home cook’s hard and fast descent into an obsession with food celebrities, including Dessert Person Claire Saffitz, Smitten Kitchen’s Deb Perelman, Pioneer Woman Ree Drummond, and Ina Garten, the Barefoot Contessa.

When the pandemic sends Krys Malcolm Belc and his young children home to live their lives on laptops, he turns to internet chefs for comfort and inspiration. It begins with Stella Parks and her 46 YouTube videos in which she teaches viewers how to make classic, nostalgic American treats like Cheez-Its, Klondike Bars, and Texas sheet cake. But the recipes aren’t enough—Belc needs to watch her showcase each ingredient, explain its importance, and weigh each item on a scale. His fixation on recipe videos, and the women who produce them, start to feel like the only thing that makes sense.

Most of life has been put on pause, but food is the one thing that continues to change day to day, season to season. Belc captures the joy and pleasure of cooking for a large family, as well as the mundane reality and occasional frustrations that come with simply getting food on the table. In the midst of it all, he feels a spark of inspiration to carry a second baby, a decision that forces him to confront how he has used both the internet and cooking to cope and distract.

Following a trans man whose life is largely structured by keeping the family household running, WHAT I MADE FOR DINNER asks the question we all might ask ourselves while elbow-deep in a roasting chicken: Is having the opportunity to cook meals for your family every day a blessing or a curse?

12/19/2025

Congratulations to A RETURN TO SELF author Aatish Taseer for making the NBCC Awards longlist in the Nonfiction category! 🥳

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12/19/2025

Congratulations to author Brenda Lozano and translator Heather Cleary for making the PEN America Translation Prize longlist for MOTHERS! 🥳

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12/17/2025

Congratulations to TWICE BORN author Hester Kaplan for making the NBCC Awards longlist in the Autobiography category! 🥳

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12/17/2025

Have you had a chance to shop our holiday gift guide yet? 🎁 Head here to find last-minute gifts for every reader in your life: https://catapultgiftguide.my.canva.site/

12/12/2025

🐇 COVER ANNOUNCEMENT 🐇 Closing out the week with another Spring '26 cover! Today we're showing off P.C. Verrone's forthcoming RABBIT, FOX, TAR, designed by Emily Mahon with art direction by Nicole Caputo!

RABBIT, FOX, TAR will hit bookstores on June 2, 2026 and is available to preorder now!

About the book 📚
A mesmerizing, fable-like debut novel about a mysterious young Black woman whose arrival in an insular neighborhood threatens to shake its foundations

When Baby appears in Original Hill, her name is on everyone’s lips. A young Black woman is a rare sight in this part of town, and she sits all day on the Foxes’ garden wall, swinging her bare feet and speaking to no one. That is, until the charismatic Lucius “Lucky” Foote comes along and touches her, sparking their romance. Arm-in-arm with Baby, who seems to exert a seemingly supernatural pull on the other residents, Lucky is confident he will secure the open city council seat away from Baby’s uncle Eugene Fox, the back-from-retirement white incumbent.

With protestors reopening old wounds around the Black neighborhood that was leveled by the nearby highway decades ago and Lucky threatening his position, Fox believes it’s not just a city council seat at stake, but the “soul” of Original Hill.

As Baby is woven further into the unraveling community, she begins to stray from Fox’s strict rules and question everything, from where she came from to who—and what—she truly is.

12/11/2025

PLANES FLYING OVER A MONSTER by Daniel Saldaña París is now available in paperback! 📚

From one of Mexico’s most exciting young writers, a cosmopolitan and candid essay collection exploring life in cities across the world and reflecting on the transformative importance of literature in understanding ourselves.

✈️ "A wise, generous book that contains all the miracles of a little walk taken in the afternoon to wake oneself up." — Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB)

✈️ "In its off-kilter originality, the book invites its readers to perceive the absurd and literary in their own surroundings. For those who take Saldaña París up on the challenge, it promises to enrich both the lives and writing that follow." — Southwest Review

✈️ "These electric essays linger in the mind." — Publishers Weekly (starred 🌟 review)

✈️ "Expressing humor, provocation, and sincerity, Saldaña París delivers a rewarding reading experience in each essay." — Booklist (starred 🌟 review)