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View Catapult's Fall 2020 Catalog
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Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler
A provocative examination of social media, sex, feminism, and fiction, the connection they’ve all promised, and the lies they help us tell, for readers of Sh...
$ 26
Catapult | fiction
Craft in the Real World by Matthew Salesses
A groundbreaking resource for fiction writers, teachers, and students, this manifesto and practical guide challenges current models of craft and the writing ...
$ 16.95
Catapult | nonfiction
Love is An Ex Country by Randa Jarrar
Queer. Muslim. Arab American. A proudly Fat woman. Randa Jarrar is all of these things. In this provocative memoir of a cross-country road trip, she explores...
$ 26
Catapult | memoir
Pop Song by Larissa Pham
Endlessly inventive, intimate, and provocative, Larissa Pham’s memoir-in-essays is a celebration of the strange and exquisite state of falling in love, wheth...
$ 16.95
Catapult | essays
Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer by Jamie Figueroa
A fableistic, incantatory debut novel of enormous power and grace about a sister trying to hold back her brother from the edge of the abyss.
$ 26
Catapult | family
Bewilderness by Karen Tucker
Set in rural, poverty-stricken North Carolina, this funny, painful, and very wise novel follows two young women--best friends--as they struggle to free thems...
$ 26
Catapult | novel
Stillicide by Cynan Jones
New Yorker fiction writer Cynan Jones returns with a powerful climate crisis story about love and loss that offers a glimpse of a tangible future in which wa...
$ 15.95
Catapult | Environment
Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Tales of Horror edited by Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto
A collection of horror-inspired flash fiction, featuring over 40 new stories from literary, horror, and emerging writers—edited by Lincoln Michel and Nadxiel...
$ 16.95
Catapult | fiction
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad
For readers of White Fragility, an explosive book of history and cultural criticism (“Ruby Hamad blows open inconvenient truths . . . in this powerful book”—...
$ 16.95
Catapult | nonfiction
High as the Waters Rise: A Novel by Anja Kampmann, translated by Anne Posten
German poet Anja Kampmann’s award-winning debut novel is the dazzling, heartrending story of an oil rig worker whose closest friend goes missing, plunging hi...
$ 26
Catapult | fiction
The Baddest Bitch in the Room: A Memoir by Sophia Chang
An inspiring story about Chang's life as the first Asian woman in hip-hop, working with such acts as The Wu-Tang Clan and A Tribe Called Quest.
$ 26
Catapult | memoir
Best Debut Short Stories 2020: The PEN America Dau Prize
The essential annual guide to the newest voices in short fiction, selected this year by Tracy O’Neill, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, and Deb Olin Unferth
$ 16.95
anthology | Catapult
What Happens at Night by Peter Cameron
An atmospheric, suspenseful story of a couple’s struggle to adopt a baby, while staying in a fading, grand European hotel. (Think: Barton Fink crossed with P...
$ 26
Catapult | fiction
Two Trees Make a Forest: Travels Among Taiwan’s Mountains and Coasts in Search of My Family’s Past by Jessica J. Lee
An exhilarating, anti-colonial reclamation of nature writing and memoir, rooted in the forests and flatlands of Taiwan, perfect for fans of Margaret Renkl's ...
$ 16.95
Catapult | memoir
No Presents Please: Stories by Jayant Kaikini, translated by Tejaswini Niranjana
Winner of the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and the Atta Galatta–Bangalore Literature Festival Literary Achievement Award, Jayant Kaikini is one of In...
$ 16.95
Catapult | fiction
You Exist Too Much: A Novel by Zaina Arafat
A startling debut novel of desire and doubleness following the life of a young Palestinian American woman caught between cultural, religious, and sexual iden...
$ 26
Catapult | fiction
Magnetized: Conversations with a Serial Killer by Carlos Busqued, translated by Samuel Rutter
One of Argentina’s most innovative writers captures the voice of a man who in 1982 murdered four taxi drivers without any apparent motive, using interviews, ...
$ 25
Catapult | nonfiction
Even the Dogs: A Novel by Jon McGregor
A daring and humane exploration of homelessness and addiction, now reissued with a new introduction from Yiyun Li
$ 16.95
Catapult | fiction
Officer Clemmons: A Memoir by Dr. François S. Clemmons
The intimate debut memoir by the man known to the world as Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood's Officer Clemmons, who made history as the first African American act...
$ 26
Catapult | memoir
On Vanishing: Mortality, Dementia, and What It Means to Disappear by Lynn Casteel Harper
An essential, empathic exploration of dementia, and in the process asks searching questions about what it means to face our own inevitable vanishing
$ 26
Catapult | nonfiction
Godshot: A Novel by Chelsea Bieker
A dazzling literary debut by Rona Jaffe Award winner Chelsea Bieker about one teenage girl’s feminist awakening and her search for her missing mother
$ 26
Catapult | fiction
On Shirley Hazzard by Michelle de Kretser
A brilliant introduction to Hazzard and a gift for her longtime readers
$ 14.95
Catapult | Criticism
Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America’s Stolen Land by Noé Álvarez
The electrifying debut memoir of a son of working-class Mexican immigrants who fled a life of labor in fruit-packing plants to run in a Native American marat...
$ 26
Catapult | memoir
A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home
In the first published anthology of writing from Catapult magazine, twenty writers share stories of migration, family, the search for home and belonging, and...
$ 16.95
anthology | Catapult
Black Sunday: A Novel by Tola Rotimi Abraham
Following the fate of one family over the course of two decades in Nigeria, this debut novel tells the story of each sibling’s search for agency, love, and m...
$ 26
Catapult | fiction
Night Theater: A Novel by Vikram Paralkar
A surgeon must bring a dead family back to life in this fabulist novel set in rural India, which examines power, corruption, and ethics
$ 16.95
Catapult | fiction
Before and After the Book Deal by Courtney Maum
Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about publishing—but were afraid to ask.
$ 16.95
Catapult | nonfiction
Humiliation: Stories by Paulina Flores
This debut story collection by Roberto Bolaño Prize winner Paulina Flores marks the arrival in the U.S. of one of Latin America’s most celebrated young writers
$ 16.95
Catapult | short stories
The Crying Book by Heather Christle
Why do we cry? How do we cry? And what does it mean?
$ 16.95
Catapult | social science
Eat Joy: Stories & Comfort Food from 31 Celebrated Writers, ed. by Natalie Eve Garrett
An illustrated anthology of essays about the comfort foods—and recipes—that helped writers survive painful times in their lives
$ 22
Catapult | essays
Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi, translated by Marilyn Booth
Winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize
$ 16.95
Catapult | fiction
Here Until August: Stories by Josephine Rowe
A collection of stories full of heartbreak, travel, and seduction from the young Australian author of A LOVING, FAITHFUL ANIMAL
$ 16.95
Catapult | short stories
The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You by Dina Nayeri
Dina Nayeri examines what it means to be a refugee through her own story of childhood escape from Iran.
$ 16.95
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Catapult | memoir
PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2019
The essential annual guide to the newest voices in short fiction
$ 16.95
anthology | Catapult
Black Card: A Novel by Chris L. Terry
The satirical story of a mixed-race punk rock musician determined to win back his coveted Black Card
$ 16.95
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Catapult | fiction
In the Country of Women: A Memoir by Susan Straight
A valuable social history and a personal narrative that reads like a love song to America and the nation's indomitable women.
$ 16.95
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Catapult | memoir
The Summer Demands: A Novel by Deborah Shapiro
Emily inherits an abandoned summer camp in Massachusetts and discovers a magnetic young woman living undetected in a cabin whose presence will force her to q...
$ 16.95
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Catapult | fiction
Floyd Harbor: Stories by Joel Mowdy
A debut collection of linked stories, about the lives of residents of Mastic Beach, an area of New York long afflicted with widespread poverty but blessed wi...
$ 16.95
Catapult | fiction
Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race by Lara Prior-Palmer
The extraordinary debut memoir of a young woman who competed in the world’s toughest horse race, and emerged as its first-ever female winner
$ 16.95
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Catapult | memoir
Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative by Jane Alison
Novelist and writing teacher Jane Alison’s manifesto for new modes of narrative will appeal to serious readers and writers alike.
$ 16.95
Catapult | Creative Writing
Optic Nerve: A Novel by María Gainza
Blending fiction, personal essay, and art history, this sparkling debut explores one Argentinean woman's obsession with art.
$ 16.95
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Catapult | fiction
The Story Prize: 15 Years of Great Short Fiction ed. by Larry Dark
A collection of winning stories celebrating the 15th anniversary of The Story Prize.
$ 16.95
anthology | Catapult
Sea Monsters: A Novel by Chloe Aridjis
In 1988 Mexico a drama unfurls, full of restlessness, mysterious men, Ukranian dwarves, and a father's search for his daughter.
$ 16.95
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Catapult | fiction
To Keep the Sun Alive: A Novel by Rabeah Ghaffari
A cinematic novel about an Iranian family and their fruit orchard, caught up in the revolution of 1979.
$ 25
Catapult | fiction
Insomnia by Marina Benjamin
Marina Benjamin confronts both her sleeplessness and the worlds' in this insightful and incisive memoir
$ 18.95
Catapult | memoir
Northwood by Maryse Meijer
Part fairy tale, part horror story,
Northwood
is a genre-breaking novella told in short, brilliant, beautifully strange passages.
$ 18.95
black balloon | Catapult
Riddance; or, The Sybil Joines Vocational School for Ghost Speakers & Hearing-Mouth Children by Shelley Jackson
In this unforgettable ghost story, the headmistress of a mysterious boarding school gathers students with speech "impediments" to speak with the dead.
$ 17.95
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black balloon | Catapult
All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir by Nicole Chung
"Chung writes her memoir as a transracial adoptee with honesty, wisdom, and love." - Min Jin Lee
$ 16.95
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Catapult | memoir
Ultraviolet: A Novel by Suzanne Matson
A sweeping novel following the lives of three singular generations of women, from 1930's India to a modern college campus.
$ 16.95
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Catapult | fiction
The Reservoir Tapes by Jon McGregor
A teenage girl is missing. A town tries hard to find her. Jon McGregor returns to the universe of
Reservoir 13
- with startling results.
$ 16.95
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Catapult | fiction
Black Balloon Books
Flying Couch: A Graphic Memoir by Amy Kurzweil
A graphic memoir that tells the stories of three unstoppable woman; an artist, a psychologist, and a survivor of trauma and genocide.
$ 18.95
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$ 55.05
And Every Day Was Overcast by Paul Kwiatkowski
“This illustrated novel about growing up poor near the swamps of South Florida has a lurid vibrancy" —
The New York Times
$ 29.95
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black balloon | fiction
Come Here Often? 53 Writers Raise a Glass to Their Favorite Bar Ed. Sean Manning
53 writers answer one question: what makes your favorite bar better than all the rest?
$ 16
anthology | black balloon
Fat Man and Little Boy by Mike Meginnis
Winner of the
2013 Horatio Nelson Fiction Prize
!
$ 10
black balloon | fiction
We Were Flying to Chicago: Stories by Kevin Clouther
Short stories that reveal unexpectedly profound insights in moments of daily life.
$ 14
black balloon | fiction
Our Man in Iraq by Robert Perišic
A gripping novel about war, reporting, and highly peculiar family members from one of Croatia's top writers.
$ 14
black balloon | fiction
Nine Rabbits by Virginia Zaharieva
Translated for the first time into English, this celebrated Bulgarian novel explores trauma, survival, and the resilience of joy.
$ 6.99
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black balloon | fiction
Maverick Jetpants in the City of Quality by Bill Peters
"So be ready, everybody. Here comes the Vomit Cruiser to rescue your sense of humor, and Bill Peters to rescue your heart.” - Sam Lipsyte
$ 14
black balloon | fiction
Louise: Amended by Louise Krug
"A page-turner in which a person's very soul deepens before your eyes." —Mary Karr
$ 14
black balloon | memoir
The Recipe Project: A Delectable Extravaganza of Food and Music by One Ring Zero
A true multimedia project, within these pages you can find recipes, music, and personal interviews from famous chefs.
$ 24.95
black balloon | food
Clementine Classics: Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
Timeless classics, annotated by Clementine the Hedgehog.
$ 2.99
black balloon | fiction
I, Parrot: A Graphic Novel by Deb Olin Unferth and Elizabeth Haidle
Parrots, pigeons, and a mother's fierce love;
I, Parrot
is a beautifully illustrated graphic novel.
$ 18.95
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Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery and Murder edited by Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto
Tales of villainy and intrigue told in a flash. Featuring Carmen Maria Machado, Amelia Gray, Yuri Herrera & many more.
$ 15.95
black balloon | Catapult
Northwood by Maryse Meijer
Part fairy tale, part horror story,
Northwood
is a genre-breaking novella told in short, brilliant, beautifully strange passages.
$ 18.95
black balloon | Catapult
Riddance; or, The Sybil Joines Vocational School for Ghost Speakers & Hearing-Mouth Children by Shelley Jackson
In this unforgettable ghost story, the headmistress of a mysterious boarding school gathers students with speech "impediments" to speak with the dead.
$ 17.95
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black balloon | Catapult
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