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"Maybe these time-loop narratives remind me that I don’t have decades of do-overs and I can’t be so slow to improve." Aram Mrjoian on climate anxiety, time-loop narratives, and a sustainable future:
Unlike these stories, we don’t have decades of do-overs—especially on the West Coast, where the droughts are real and the big earthquake could shake things loose anytime.
"Those who are writing in their Indigenous languages and providing translations are leaders of Indigenous poetry." Don't miss this interview of Chelsea T. Hicks from Catapult’s Head Instructor, Gabrielle Bellot!
In this interview, Catapult’s Head Instructor, Gabrielle Bellot, talks with instructor Chelsea T. Hicks about Indigenous poetry, colonialism, languages, the process of “rematriation,” and more.
"Thirty years ago, I fell in love with a boy and a brownstone." An essay by Beth Boyle Machlan on desire, real estate, and coveting the Brooklyn brownstone:
The brownstone stood for everything I wanted: solidity and urbanity, possibility and permanence. But it wasn’t mine.
"Living in the comfortable illusions of a time loop meant I could defer my anxieties about our environmental future." Aram Mrjoian on climate anxiety, time-loop narratives, and a sustainable future:
Unlike these stories, we don’t have decades of do-overs—especially on the West Coast, where the droughts are real and the big earthquake could shake things loose anytime.
Love this one.
An illustrated review of Melissa Febos's BODY WORK by Kateri Kramer for The Rumpus.
An illustrated review of Melissa Febos’ Body Work.
"De Kretser, one of our most deeply intelligent writers, offers a book that is wry and heartbreaking, playful and profound."
⭐️ A starred Kirkus review for Michelle de Kretser's SCARY MONSTERS! ⭐️
A reversible novel tells the stories of two Asian immigrants to Australia, one 40 years in the past and one in the future.
In this short story by Brennan Kilbane, a reality TV star sits for a confessional with—not his priest—his producer: "Remy was not Kurt’s friend or priest, but he did like him fine."
Kurt had costars—and many ex-costars—claim their producers were like their best friends, their handlers, their editors, their priests.
"I pound the s**t out of the mattress and scream and cry and throw pillows and after what feels like an hour I’ve cried everything out, and I’m facedown on the bed, and my teeth hurt, and I feel like something has exploded out of me." A new short story by Katherine Scott Nelson
I run through all the breathing and grounding exercises I’ve learned from my friends at the survivors’ group.
"Let me open the way I do naturally." New poetry from Hedgie Choi. Read and listen to it here:
When I got up before anyone else / I took the heavy clams from the fridge / and put them in a bowl of cool water.
In this short story by Brennan Kilbane, a reality TV star sits for a confessional with—not his priest—his producer: “If the party is a bust, it really hurts nobody but your daughter. And that’s why we’re all here anyway, right?”
Kurt had costars—and many ex-costars—claim their producers were like their best friends, their handlers, their editors, their priests.
"It bothers me to realize that coffee is not rooted in our people’s ancient traditions, but rather in our people’s recent subjugation." Thulasi Seshan on filter coffee's place in culture, history, and memory:
For me, longing for filter coffee and missing my father are one and the same.
"Not one of them knew this history—that coffee, rather than being a traditional part of our lives, was instead a colonial creation." Thulasi Seshan on filter coffee place in culture, history, and memory:
For me, longing for filter coffee and missing my father are one and the same.
"The Encyclopedia is meant to function as a one-stop dream decoder, producing exactly one definitive answer to what every dream symbol means." Summer Block on 'Zolar's Encyclopedia & Dictionary of Dreams' and staying attuned to the signs and symbols of the universe:
We knew ‘Zolar’s Encyclopedia & Dictionary of Dreams’ was absurd. But, as teenagers, we were thrilled by the idea of interpreting the secret symbols of the universe.
⭐️ A starred Kirkus review for Michelle de Kretser's SCARY MONSTERS! ⭐️
"De Kretser, one of our most deeply intelligent writers, offers a book that is wry and heartbreaking, playful and profound."
A reversible novel tells the stories of two Asian immigrants to Australia, one 40 years in the past and one in the future.
What details from your life can you use to begin writing a magical realist story? Try out this prompt from classes instructor Jessica Reidy:
Learn how to devise a rough concept for a magical realist story with this prompt from classes instructor Jessica Reidy.
"The more time I spent in fandom while writing this column, the clearer it became to me: I believe fandom should be about joy." Giaae Kwon's latest installment of her column on Shinhwa and the joy of fandom:
Joy is not something I’ve carried naturally
Rainbow Rainbow, the debut story collection by Lydia Conklin—on shelves this May!
https://books.catapult.co/books/rainbow-rainbow/
"In 1993, I dreamed about a wedding." Summer Block on 'Zolar's Encyclopedia & Dictionary of Dreams' and staying attuned to the signs and symbols of the universe:
We knew ‘Zolar’s Encyclopedia & Dictionary of Dreams’ was absurd. But, as teenagers, we were thrilled by the idea of interpreting the secret symbols of the universe.
"It bothers me to realize that coffee is not rooted in our people’s ancient traditions, but rather in our people’s recent subjugation." Thulasi Seshan on filter coffee's place in culture, history, and memory:
For me, longing for filter coffee and missing my father are one and the same.
"Diners can provide night-shift workers, students, or just those coming back from a night out with decent, off-hours dining options outside of fast food, especially in food deserts." Amanda Chen writes:
Diners are affordable, accessible, and a staple of our national imagination. They’re also disappearing—and we need them now more than ever.
Congratulations to María Gainza and translator Thomas Bunstead!
PORTRAIT OF AN UNKNOWN LADY HAS BEEN CHOSEN BY American Booksellers Association booksellers as an April Indie Next pick!
https://www.bookweb.org/news/april-2022-indie-next-list-preview-1627592
"I think about what that means, war-torn / why not war-shattered, mirror multiplied" Don't miss this new poem from Dora Prieto:
when his niece asks / tell me about Chía, the answer is always just: it’s a long story / but I think what you’re telling me, is that language is an inadequate grieving
Congratulations to Melissa Febos! BODY WORK has been chosen by American Booksellers Association indie booksellers as an April Indie Next pick!
https://www.bookweb.org/news/april-2022-indie-next-list-preview-1627592
No matter where you are at in the submissions process, don't miss this new essay from David DeGusta about his experience as a volunteer reader for a well-regarded literary mag:
Over the last four years I have evaluated more than one thousand short stories.
Affordable and once-ubiquitous, the diner is a paragon of postwar prosperity and optimism. As a result, it feels anachronistic. We need it now more than ever. Amanda Chen writes:
Diners are affordable, accessible, and a staple of our national imagination. They’re also disappearing—and we need them now more than ever.
“Border Less is itself nothing less than a lustrous and colorful tapestry of migration in an imperfectly globalized world”: Nikhita Obeegadoo interviews Namrata Poddar on her new novel.
Nikhita Obeegadoo interviews Namrata Poddar on her new novel, Border Less, and place and displacement as key ideas in her work.
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"[Outsider artists] create art 'as a way to realize their inner vision and to deal with the possible trauma or hardship that they’ve lived through.'" An essay on Fritz Kiste by Liam Greenwell:
Fritz Kistel was a reclusive artist who produced a body of work so fabulously unproductive—in the capitalist sense—that I can’t help but admire him: He created for himself.
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"[Outsider artists] create art 'as a way to realize their inner vision and to deal with the possible trauma or hardship that they’ve lived through.'" An essay on Fritz Kiste by Liam Greenwell:
Fritz Kistel was a reclusive artist who produced a body of work so fabulously unproductive—in the capitalist sense—that I can’t help but admire him: He created for himself.
"What struck me about Nirvana immediately was Cobain’s anger. Not an anger misplaced, mind you, but an anger languishing in abstraction." Read the next installment of Niko Stratis' column, Everyone Is Gay, on Nirvana and Kurt Cobain:
Nirvana took every step to sand the edges of rock's obsessive relationship with toxic masculinity.
Parenthood, poverty, family history, subsistence living on a Maine island—
ARCs of LUNGFISH by Meghan Gillis have arrived!
"Here is a story about the islands we build and carry with us. Here is storytelling at its best.” —Paul Yoon, author of Snow Hunters
https://books.catapult.co/books/lungfish/
"The most striking thing about Cobain, outside the flannel-clad bluster and bravado of grunge, was how he pushed the boundaries of his gender." Read the next installment of Niko Stratis' column, Everyone Is Gay, on Nirvana and Kurt Cobain:
Nirvana took every step to sand the edges of rock's obsessive relationship with toxic masculinity.
Ever heard of Fritz Kistel? Probably not. He was a reclusive artist who produced a body of work so fabulously unproductive—in the capitalist sense—that he might inspire: He created for himself. Liam Greenwell writes:
Fritz Kistel was a reclusive artist who produced a body of work so fabulously unproductive—in the capitalist sense—that I can’t help but admire him: He created for himself.
TODAY, 3/1, 7pm EST join Natalie Eve Garrett, editor of our forthcoming THE LONELY STORIES, alongside Kristen Radtke and Nguyên Khôi Nguyễn for a virtual discussion of navigating loneliness as part of Baltimore's City Lit Festival from CityLit Project!
EVENTS IN THE NEWS WHAT'S HAPPENING CityLit Festival presents: Navigating Solitude Tuesday, March 1, 2022, @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EST The Writers Room with Kristen Radtke from 8:00 – 8:30 Registration requested: The link is below. This session examines the many ways we manage isolation. Leaning int...
"We’d had the starter home, the big house, the summer cottage, but then something went quickly and badly wrong—something we didn’t talk about, even as the scenery changed rapidly around us." An essay Beth Boyle Machlan on desire, real estate, and coveting the Brooklyn brownstone:
The brownstone stood for everything I wanted: solidity and urbanity, possibility and permanence. But it wasn’t mine.
"My desire for the men melted into my desire for their wood floors, their marble mantels, their bay windows and leafy streets." An essay by Beth Boyle Machlan on desire, real estate, and coveting the Brooklyn brownstone:
The brownstone stood for everything I wanted: solidity and urbanity, possibility and permanence. But it wasn’t mine.
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