Catapult

11/27/2025

Celebrate and learn from Indigenous authors this Thanksgiving—here's a few of our favs to start with! ✨

🦃 THE BERRY PICKERS: A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a mystery that will haunt the survivors, unravel a family, and remain unsolved for nearly fifty years.

🦃 THE BEADWORKERS: Beth Piatote’s luminous debut collection opens with a feast, grounding its stories in the landscapes and lifeworlds of the Native Northwest, exploring the inventive and unforgettable pattern of Native American life in the contemporary world.

🦃 RED PAINT: An Indigenous artist blends the aesthetics of punk rock with the traditional spiritual practices of the women in her lineage in this bold, contemporary journey to reclaim her heritage and unleash her power and voice while searching for a permanent home.

🦃 THUNDER SONG: The author of the award-winning memoir RED PAINT returns with a razor-sharp, clear-eyed collection of essays on what it means to be a proudly q***r indigenous woman in the United States today.

🦃 HEART BERRIES: A powerful, poetic memoir of an Indigenous woman’s coming of age on the Seabird Island Band in the Pacific Northwest.

🦃 WAITING FOR THE LONG NIGHT MOON: In her debut collection of short fiction, Amanda Peters describes the Indigenous experience from an astonishingly wide spectrum in time and place—from contact with the first European settlers, to the forced removal of Indigenous children, to the present-day fight for the right to clean water.

11/24/2025

Our holiday gift guide is here! Get ahead on your holiday shopping and check out our top picks for every kind of reader on your list 📚

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11/20/2025

Thrilled to see Amanda Peters' THE BERRY PICKERS featured on this table of book club picks at Barnes & Noble Park Slope!

11/19/2025

"It’s my job to carry you from one sentence to the next, which is why the book is so desperate to be liked. I am conscious of the fact that your phone is a foot from you when you’re reading."

Read the full interview with FLAT EARTH author Anika Jade Levy via i-D.

"Flat Earth" author Anika Jade Levy on vulnerability, scarcity, and friendship.

11/18/2025

"The sponsored content seemed more real than the photos of my old acquaintances, who looked like advertisements for themselves, for generational wealth, for the American psychiatric industry, for s*x positivity."

Read the full excerpt from Anika Jade Levy's FLAT EARTH via Literary Hub:

Our age difference, the Law Professor told me, was Socratic: seventeen years. An ideal gap for ideological instruction.   He had medium-sized children—concealed at twentieth-century-style boar…

11/18/2025

Happy publication day to Martha Cooley's MY LITTLE DONKEY! 🫏

MY LITTLE DONKEY is a collection of searching, curious, and surprising essays catalyzed by Martha's move in her sixties to a small Italian village, exploring selfhood, coincidence, inheritance, and the impermanence of identity.

🫏 "Elegant." —The Millions

🫏 “Cooley’s wit and wisdom infuses even the most mundane subjects with wonder. Readers who’ve undergone their own rocky life transitions will be especially enchanted.” — Publishers Weekly (starred 🌟 review)

🫏 "These essays have a musical feel to them, at times improvisations, at times variations on a theme . . . Beauty and violence, the trivial and the profound, come together here to make us see the world anew. Essays that celebrate the sublime in the ordinary and the redemptions found in literature and family life." — Kirkus Reviews

🫏 "Cooley's elegantly written essays deserve to be read in a relaxing lounge chair with a glass of wine . . . Itinerant musings worth reading for all ages." — Booklist

11/17/2025

"Levy’s novel argues that artists don’t have an authentic position to create from, that everything is corrupted by money. . . . The novel satirizes contemporary society and its discontents, indexing the internet’s alienating effects, the rightward political swing of many young men (and women), and the absurdities of the New York City art scene." — The Atlantic

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Anika Jade Levy’s debut novel captures what it feels like to try to become an artist right now.

11/14/2025

"MOTHERS is Lozano’s most propulsive novel, a thriller with a social consciousness that takes an unapologetically feminist look at the pleasures, pressures, and terrors of motherhood in a patriarchal society beholden to money and access." — Southwest Review

By Cory Oldweiler

11/13/2025

11/05/2025

CASANOVA 20 by Davey Davis is a December 2025 American Booksellers Association Indie Next Pick!!! Huge thanks to all of the booksellers who nominated us, we appreciate you immensely! 🫶

⭐ ADVANCE PRAISE FOR CASANOVA 20 ⭐

"A fascinating narrative of art and desire." —The Millions

"A rare gem of a book—afraid of neither joy nor sorrow and patient enough to find the human heart inside all its gorgeous language. A show-stopping novel that carries within it a quiet, steadfast heart."— Kirkus Reviews (Starred 🌟 Review)

“Davey Davis is a master of moods, beauty rippling into unease like—as in one of Davis’s own metaphors—a firework display reflected on dark and shifting water.” —Torrey Peters, author of DETRANSITION, BABY

"Casanova 20 is another stunner from one of the great writers of haunting fiction for our violent, sick, sometimes beautiful world. Davis has written a melancholy, lonely, fully embodied novel about art and desire and the self and how people get through. I was spellbound by every page of this uneasy and utterly surprising book." — Lydia Kiesling, author of MOBILITY

11/04/2025

FLAT EARTH is one of 7 new books Vulture thinks you should read this November!

"Energetic and episodic. . . . Dazzlingly deadpan and sharp observations about navigating the strange world of now. . . . FLAT EARTH is a delight." — Vulture

A q***r thriller about ’70s Italian cinema, Salman Rushdie’s return to fiction, and an ambitious examination of s*xual trauma.

11/04/2025

It's publication day for FLAT EARTH! 🌔 The New York Times calls it "witty and poignant" and "funny and sharp."

Read the full review here:

In tracing the journeys of two frenemies with art-world aspirations, Anika Jade Levy’s “Flat Earth” distills the angst and aimlessness of a generation.