"Nearly every one of Castro’s acerbic, unfiltered paragraphs contains a bristling insight about literature, weight lifting, or academic politics." — @newyorker.com buff.ly/RQ2nrxJ

📵 COVER ANNOUNCEMENT 📵 We are so excited to share the cover of NO CONTACT: Writers on Estrangement, edited by Jenny Bartoy! Cover design by the fabulous Nicole Caputo ⭐ NO CONTACT will hit bookstores on April 28th and is available to preorder now: books.catapult.co/books/no-con...

"THE DEVIL'S CASTLE is a sober­ing and dis­heart­en­ing — yet impor­tant — text. It shines a light onto a neglect­ed his­to­ry of World War II and onto a pop­u­la­tion that, too, has been neglect­ed and mistreated." — @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social

"She was like a mouse sniffing cheese in a trap, testing it out with its whiskers to see if it’ll snap shut, then when nothing happens, sticking in its whole head. Doesn’t even notice the trap swishing past its ears." Read the full excerpt from PLAYING WOLF via Lit Hub. buff.ly/ftSsyf9

🎉 Happy pub day to PLAYING WOLF! @catapultbooks.bsky.social To celebrate, here is a fun clip of Zuzana Říhová and me at @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social Saturday night. 🙌 Shoutout to Pierce Alquist. L-o-v-e-d her suggestion that we read a section synchronously! www.youtube.com/live/AcQkRXZ...

Read an excerpt from Susanne Paola Antonetta's THE DEVIL'S CASTLE on the forgotten history of disabled children during WWII via @motherjones.com. buff.ly/4quVcD8

PLAYING WOLF is on sale today! 🐺 Thanks to all who came out to Zuzana & @alexzucker.bsky.social's events over the past week. Here are a few snaps from their events at @volumesbooks.bsky.social and the Czech Consulate in Chicago!

Big news! We’re so excited to share that FLAT EARTH by Anika Jade Levy will be available as an October Book of the Month add-on! 📚 🌟 “Not to be missed if you want to keep up with the literary zeitgeist.” — @gqmagazine.bsky.social

🌿 COVER ANNOUNCEMENT 🌿 We're thrilled to share the cover of Pamela Steele's forthcoming novel IN THE FIELDS OF FATHERLESS CHILDREN, designed by Victoria Maxfield with art direction by @nicolecaputo.bsky.social! Arriving on 3/24 — preorder now! buff.ly/2FBJWXl

Reading from plastic @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social @catapultbooks.bsky.social 💙🤍

🤩 Amazing turnout tonight! Great questions from readers! First-rate moderating by Pierce A! Warm welcome from all of @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social staff! 📚 Autographed copies of PLAYING WOLF @catapultbooks.bsky.social at Brookline Booksmith now, in the Transnational Literature section!

Happy publication day to Susanne Paola Antonetta's THE DEVIL'S CASTLE! 📚 THE DEVIL'S CASTLE delves into the forgotten history of eugenics and links it to present-day psychiatry to explain how we as a culture continue to get mind care so wrong. www.counterpointpress.com/books/18125/

PLAYING WOLF on tour! 🧺 🐺 👧 By Zuzana Říhová, translated by @alexzucker.bsky.social, published by @catapultbooks.bsky.social 🌟 9/21: @bkbookfest.bsky.social 🌟 9/22: Czech Center New York 🌟 9/25: Volumes Bookcafe, Chicago 🌟 9/26: Czech Consulate, Chicago 🌟 9/27: @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social

Wheeler always called him by his full name, "Sunfish," out of respect, which he gave along with awe and love, because the horse by his presence and bearing seemed to require it. --Wendell Berry, Marce Catlett: The Force of a Story, forthcoming. @catapultbooks.bsky.social #SundaySentence #Booksky

RESTING BITCH FACE is an Audacious Book Club pick! 📚 Join @taylorbyas.bsky.social and @roxanegay.bsky.social for a virtual conversation on September 23 at 5PM PT/8PM ET. Register here: buff.ly/hnP05V8

Big news!! WHAT HAPPENS AT NIGHT by Peter Cameron is coming to the big screen and will be starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence! 🤩 Huge congrats, Peter! Read more here: ift.tt/STGO93v

Festival weekend is finally here! Come visit us at booth #306 this Sunday and be sure check out some of the amazing author panels happening all day as well! 📚✨

🦉 COVER ANNOUNCEMENT 🦉 New Uchenna Awoke incoming! We're thrilled to share the gorgeous cover of Uchenna's forthcoming novel, A SIEGE OF OWLS, designed by Emily Mahon with art direction by Nicole Caputo! Coming May 2026! Preorder now: books.catapult.co/books/a-sieg...

In @sebastiancastillo.bsky.social's new novel, FRESH, GREEN LIFE, "the star of the show is the prose." Lee Klein reviews the book from @catapultbooks.bsky.social. ocreviewofbooks.org/2025/09/17/s...

"Castro understands better than most that not only contemporary life but contemporary consciousness have become hopelessly contaminated by the internet. . . . Castro is a precise and immensely readable stylist. He’s fun to read, and very funny."— @vulture.com www.vulture.com/article/jord...

Levy debuts with a darkly funny work of hyperrealism about a broke New York City grad student on a self-destructive path as “right-wing nutrition fads fall into fashion” and the government moves to “legalize crime completely.” It’s an astute and audacious satire. @catapultbooks.bsky.social

We 💜 translated fiction. What are you reading this month to celebrate National Translation Month?

🍩 COVER ANNOUNCEMENT 🍩 We're thrilled to share the cover of Hafeez Lakhani's forthcoming novel ABUNDANCE, designed by Nicole Caputo! ABUNDANCE hits bookstores and libraries on 5/5/26 and is available to preorder now! Learn more: www.counterpointpress.com/books/abunda...

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 COVER ANNOUNCEMENT 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 We're excited to share that Hanna Johansson's new novel is coming this spring! Cover design by the fabulous Nicole Caputo 🖤 BODY DOUBLE hits bookstores on 4/7/26 — preorder now! books.catapult.co/books/body-d...

MERCY was featured in @npr.org's round up of best new books this week! Check out the full list here: www.npr.org/2025/09/02/n...

Happy paperback publication day to @elishevaem.bsky.social's OLIVE DAYS! 🫒 🫒 🫒 ⭐ Winner of the GLCA New Writers Award ⭐ Finalist for the @latimes.com Book Prize ⭐ Longlisted for the Reading the West Book Awards 🫒 "Stunning, steamy and unique." — @people

Happy pub day to MUSCLE MAN! 💪 From the author of the cult hit THE NOVELIST comes a hilarious metaphysical thriller following a day in the life of an English professor who would rather be lifting weights. "Gloriously bewitching, funny, and meditative." — @ala-booklist.bsky.social (⭐ review)

"In this westward journey, Pocock seeks not fortune, success, or survival, but connection, in all senses of the word: for her own sake but also, more urgently, as a balm for America’s pervasive ills to which her bus ride grants her a front-row seat." —@altajournal.bsky.social buff.ly/XSHMJnR

🌟 Sun, Sept 21, 2 PM @bkbookfest.bsky.social: Zuzana Říhová talks about PLAYING WOLF, my translation of her squirm-inducing village novel for @catapultbooks.bsky.social, with a trio of excellent interlocutors: Amanda Lee Koe, Olive Senior and Elina Alter! brooklynbookfestival.org/event/myth-f...

MERCY is an Amazon editors' pick for September! 🥳 "Spanning decades, generations, and continents, MERCY is a reminder of the interconnectedness of our world."

"Forgiveness, Silber seems to say, requires the right conditions . . . This, indeed, is the compelling and beautiful idea at the heart of Joan Silber’s novel: We must, dear reader, “make room for mercy.”"— @post-gazette.com buff.ly/V1ctA3t

"In the end, what I took from writing the book is: if there is meaning and order, it’s not individually accessible—it can only be found in love and friendship." — @dsparis.bsky.social on writing his latest novel THE DANCE AND THE FIRE www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/09...

“For every book that I read, I collect words for a word bank, take notes on meaningful quotes, and write down any ideas that come to me,” writes @taylorbyas.bsky.social, author of Resting Bitch Face (Soft Skull Press @catapultbooks.bsky.social). Read on: at.pw.org/WRByas

Jordan Castro's MUSCLE MAN was featured in @vanityfair.com's round up of back to school novels for lovers of dark academia! 🥀 📚 Check out the full list here: www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...

Exclusive reveal ‼️ Check out the newly released cover of Emeline Atwood's epic new coming of age novel A REAL ANIMAL, via @people.com. people.com/a-real-anima...

My translation of Zuzana Říhová's PLAYING WOLF (@catapultbooks.bsky.social) was chosen as one of "18 September Books the Goodreads Editors Can't Wait to Read," so you REALLY better get your hands on it now! It opens with a cow birthing. Need I say more? www.goodreads.com/blog/show/29...

Happy pub day to Joan Silber's MERCY! 🌇 ✨ "Compelling and beautiful." — @post-gazette.com ✨ "Like a favorite special in a beloved restaurant, Silber again serves her unique flavor of reading joy." —Kirkus Reviews (starred ⭐) ✨ "Human and moving, awful and beautiful." — @literaryhub.bsky.social

💥 Unboxed! 📚 The "devilishly creepy" PLAYING WOLF, by Zuzana Říhová, translated by @alexzucker.bsky.social, published by @catapultbooks.bsky.social is here, in the pulp! 🌟 Thank you, Sujatha S.! Advance praise and preorders here: books.catapult.co/books/playin...

"A winning exploration of friendship and betrayal. . . If you have never read Joan Silber, it is time you did."— @bostonglobe.com www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/26/a...

THE HOLLOW HALF author Sarah Aziza was featured in @pw.org's round-up of the best debut nonfiction of 2025! Read (or listen to!) an excerpt from the book here: buff.ly/fLVHsXy

Ivonne Lamazares chatted with @latinobookreview.bsky.social about her new novel THE TILTING HOUSE! Check out the full interview here: www.latinobookreview.com/interview-wi...

Happy paperback publication day to Jokha Alharthi's SILKEN GAZELLES! 🪻 ✨ "A touching, intricate narrative" — @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social ✨ "A haunting love story." — @ala-booklist.bsky.social ✨ "A worthy entry into the pantheon of stories about female friendship." — @publisherswkly.bsky.social

Happy publication day to @taylorbyas.bsky.social's latest poetry collection RESTING BITCH FACE! ✨"Stunning in scale and ensnaring in its lyricism, Byas remains at the top of her game." — @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social

"A beautifully rendered collection of some of the profound observations, questions, and heartbreaks that attend existence in a Black feminine body." Gianni Washington's review of "Resting Bitch Face" by Taylor Byas (@catapultbooks.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/08/26/t...

“With the same name, it’s easy to become one person instead of two.” Read an excerpt from Marissa Higgins' new novel SWEETENER via @bombmag.bsky.social! bombmagazine.org/articles/202...

"Sexy, poignant second novel. . . a fun romp through one version of lesbo-land circa 2025. . . Sweetener celebrates and accelerates the long, rough ride to lasting queer equality." — @latimes.com www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

"GREYHOUND uses its ecological consciousness to direct readers’ attentions to the natural world, thoughtfully probes the boundaries of its own awareness, and honestly struggles to achieve a comfortable sense of place." — @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social chireviewofbooks.com/2025/08/18/f...

Exclusive reveal! Check out the newly released cover of NYT-bestelling author Daniel Kraus' forthcoming book PARTIALLY DEVOURED, a deep dive into the cultural impact of the horror classic Night of the Living Dead, via @fangoria.bsky.social. www.fangoria.com/exclusive-co...

🌧️ COVER ANNOUNCEMENT 🌧️ We're pleased to share the cover of Canisia Lubrin's THE WORLD AFTER RAIN, designed by Jennifer Griffiths 💙 THE WORLD AFTER RAIN goes on sale 2/3/26 and is available to preorder now! buff.ly/hkgUv6B

Not scheduled yet but Zuzana Říhová will be at @bkbookfest.bsky.social #BKBF Sept 21 with my translation of her deliciously creepy "village novel" PLAYING WOLF (@catapultbooks.bsky.social), replete with intertextual references to Little Red Riding Hood 🧺🌲 brooklynbookfestival.org/authors/zuza...