"[An] eerie novel of obsession and transference . . . Together, the story lines fuse into an exploration of feminine selfhood, as the characters grapple with what it is to know oneself and to be known by others." — @newyorker.com buff.ly/avE9KyL

INTERVIEW: Steven Pfau discussed his debut memoir, SAY NEPHEW over at the site: debutiful.net/2026/05/28/b... @catapultbooks.bsky.social

Honored to see Eve Babitz's SEX AND RAGE featured as one of Hudson Williams' favorites! 📚 ✨ variety.com/2026/shoppin...

"A novel that does it all . . . It’s an outstanding, singular novel that kept me under its spell until the very end." — @literaryhub.bsky.social on @pcverrone.com's RABBIT, FOX, TAR (out next week!) lithub.com/19-novels-yo...

SAY NEPHEW is one of @debutiful.bsky.social's favorite books of May! They call it, "A beautiful ode to family and coming into your own." debutiful.net/2026/05/27/2...

"This debut is so assured, so tightly written, so effortlessly paced and mordantly funny. . . that any doubts that one might have about this generation's talent is somewhat erased." —Brett Easton Ellis on Anika Jade Levy's debut FLAT EARTH 📚 Listen now: www.patreon.com/breteastonel...

Only a few more days left to enter for a chance to win an ARC of @amandapetersauthor.bsky.social's highly-anticipated sophomore novel THE BIRTHING TREE! Enter now on Goodreads 📚 www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

THE WORDS OF DR. L by @karenebender.bsky.social is now available in paperback! 📚 ✨ "Narrows the gap between the speculative and the frighteningly real, drawing on the connection between parents and their children to craft stories that ache with familial love." — @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social

"There is so much life-affirming purpose in writing truthfully about the experiences that make you human. And when readers engage with that, they feel more human too." Read I WOULD DIE IF I WERE YOU author @erappblack.bsky.social's full Memoir Land interview here: buff.ly/92lep6E

Happy publication day to @stpfau.bsky.social's SAY NEPHEW! ✨ 📚 🌈 "Pfau reflects on the myth of the gay uncle. He asks what the community gains from these relationships and what queer nephews owe their mentors in return." — @altajournal.bsky.social books.catapult.co/books/say-ne...

Queen of the beach read, Elin Hilderbrand, loves THE RESERVATION! She says that it's "PERFECT for any book hangover." parade.com/news/elin-hi...

The Nephew Eras Tour begins next week! I’ll be talking about Say Nephew with some brilliant writers in a few different places. I’d love to see you! If you haven’t yet preordered Say Nephew, which @catapultbooks.bsky.social is publishing on Tuesday, 5/25, you can get a copy from any of these stores 📚

DEEP BREATH is now available in paperback! ✨ "Remarkable." — @nytimes.com ✨ "Halász turns language into a mirror, demonstrating how words can reflect back things we may not yet know about ourselves." — Asymptote Journal books.catapult.co/books/deep-b...

Excerpted from Emily Rapp Black's I WOULD DIE IF I WERE YOU—available now!

It's today! Join our translation book club, 12 pm PST, at the Mechanics' Institute in SF OR from anywhere via Zoom. This month's pick is CELESTIAL BODIES written by Jokha Alharthi, translated from Arabic by Marilyn Booth (@catapultbooks.bsky.social). RSVP: buff.ly/Y3sTMoA

Honored to see a passage from my essay included in this awesome review by Asha Dore published in @muthamagazine.bsky.social! Check out her review of No Contact: Writers on Estrangement, edited by @jennybartoy.bsky.social, published by @catapultbooks.bsky.social: www.muthamagazine.com/2026/05/good...

Yesterday's excellent galley mail Notes on Postcards by Jennifer Croft! The interior will be in color and features postcards with short notes. Out in November from @catapultbooks.bsky.social.

I just started reading The Loneliest Tree in the World by Mariana Salomão Carrara; translated by Alison Entrekin and Julia Sanches. The novel is about a family of tobacco farmers and narrated by the objects around them including a wise tree. Out in August from @catapultbooks.bsky.social.

Enter for a chance to win Emeline Atwood's stunning debut A REAL ANIMAL via Goodreads! Contest ends June 14. Enter here: buff.ly/tgBCtwj

Congrats to Jordan Salama for being named a Sami Rohr Prize finalist! 🏅 As the premier award in the world of Jewish publishing, this prize recognizes the unique role of contemporary writers in the examination and transmission of the Jewish experience. www.samirohrprize.org

"I think we’ve lost the ability to contain an experience that we can’t click away from, and you can’t click away from grief. It’s just not possible in the long term." @erappblack.bsky.social talks about grief and her new book I WOULD DIE IF I WERE YOU via @psychologytoday.com.

"Mr. Awoke’s material is rich and his writing is stately" — @wsj.com A SIEGE OF OWLS is on sale now! 🦉Read the full review here: www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

Thrilled to see SISTERS OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN listed as an @OprahDaily best book of summer! "Written with curiosity, empathy, and humility, this is true crime, second-act reinvention, and extreme-landscape immersion in one crystalline package." buff.ly/XkuQh3L

BIG NEWS! You can now preorder a signed paperback copy of @xbennyboo.bsky.social's HOT GIRLS WITH BALLS from Books Are Magic! Head over to their website to grab yours now 📚 ✨ 💖 🏐 🔥 Offer ends on 7/7. booksaremagic.net/preorders/be...

Hafeez Lakhani shares his favorite childhood books, titles that inspired his debut novel ABUNDANCE, and what's on his TBR stack now, via @debutiful. buff.ly/DHOL3ZF

GREEN GOLD is on sale now in paperback! 🥑 📚 ✨ 🥑 "A comprehensive history of the nursery owners, scientists, marketing whizzes, and health experts who transformed the avocado from an exotic equatorial fruit into a multibillion-dollar industry." — @publisherswkly.bsky.social

"Our encounters with others can be the thing that makes us feel entirely a part of the world, and the thing that makes us feel entirely alien to the world." @sbfeldman.bsky.social interviews @scottjbroker.bsky.social about The Disappointment (@catapultbooks.bsky.social). ➡️ buff.ly/aGx0Lag

"PARTIALLY DEVOURED examines every second of Night of the Living Dead while expanding upon its complicated production history and interweaving cultural commentary with a memoiristic account of @danielkraus.com's personal relationship with the film." — @letterboxd.social buff.ly/FWcN2YL

Thrilled to see ABUNDANCE listed as a @people.com best book of May! Check out the print issue on newsstands now! "Fresh spring read. . . [A] vivid family story." — @people.com people.com/people-best-...

Hafeez Lakhani chats with @wlrnnews.bsky.social about how his childhood in South Florida inspired his novel ABUNDANCE and how he examines the role of destiny in life. Listen now: www.wlrn.org/arts-culture...

Happy publication day to Uchenna Awoke's A SIEGE OF OWLS! 🦉 🦉 "Pitch-perfect prose with lyrical undertones." —@afrocritik.bsky.social 🦉 "Immersive and lyrical." — @publisherswkly.bsky.social (starred 🌟 review) 🦉 "Haunting, evocative." — @ala-booklist.bsky.social

Join us this week at The Twisted Spine launch event for Dane Bahr's THE DEAD RINGER, moderated by @emilynemens.bsky.social! RSVP: buff.ly/f1xENix

No Contact is a bestseller! Thank you to indie booksellers across the country and of course to all you lovely readers. I hope this book shifts the conversation about family estrangement and hopefully changes some lives too. So excited about this news! Support your local bookshop. 😘

Save the date! @susantonetta.bsky.social discusses THE DEVIL'S CASTLE at a Women, Life and Science "Science Cafe" at M. Judson Bookseller in Greenville, SC at 5pm on 6/29. More info here: bit.ly/49EfB1N @catapultbooks.bsky.social @jillgrinberglit.bsky.social

On sale now in paperback! 🏳️‍⚧️ Here are just some of the incredible accolades TLP has accumulated over just ONE year of publication! ⭐ NATIONAL BESTSELLER ⭐ New England Book Award finalist ⭐ Longlisted for James Patterson and @bookshop.org Prize ⭐ Finalist for the @lambdaliterary.org Award & more!

"Estrangement comes from a refusal to tolerate a harmful status quo." Brianna Avenia-Tapper's interview with @jennybartoy.bsky.social on "No Contact: Writers on Estrangement" (@catapultbooks.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2026/05/07/n...

Congratulations to authors @pcverrone.com & Emeline Atwood for having their debuts chosen as Indies Introduce selections by @americanbookseller.bsky.social! Both are available to preorder now from your favorite indie bookseller! 📚 buff.ly/ZwLjQ63

Enter for a chance to win Emeline Atwood's A REAL ANIMAL through this giveaway with Kirkus! Enter here: buff.ly/zJ2jJIr

Happy publication day to Hafeez Lakhani's ABUNDANCE! 🍩 ✨ "An indelible portrait of family dynamics and the interplay between business and life." — @people.com "Lakhani’s debut is perfect for fans of Min Jin Lee or Fatima Farheen Mirza." — @libraryjournal.bsky.social

Author Paul Stob joined @boweryboys.bsky.social to chat about the strange craze of phrenology that overtook New York in the mid-19th century, how the practice was later used to justify racist and elitist philosophies, and his new book EMPIRE OF SKULLS.

BIG NEWS: Anika Jade Levy's FLAT EARTH is coming to the small screen! 🤩 Vice Studios stated, “This is exactly the kind of bold, singular storytelling we want to champion, and we’re excited to help bring Anika’s world to a wider audience.” buff.ly/CCdP9IC

"Over the years of my estrangement, nothing has validated my heartbreak or my truth more, or propelled my healing further, than connecting with other estranged individuals and hearing their stories." Excerpted from @jennybartoy.bsky.social's NO CONTACT. memoirland.substack.com/p/cutting-ties

It was an honor getting to join @jennybartoy.bsky.social, the editor of No Contact: Writers on Estrangement, published by @catapultbooks.bsky.social, and fellow contributors at Jenny's book launch last night at Liz's Book Bar. Photos by Barbara Garrick

"Bending reality with its unsettling use of repetition and duplication, BODY DOUBLE is dazzling, rich with the play of mirrors at its core." — Asymptote Journal buff.ly/DEjgxcv

Join us as we celebrate award-winning author Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's legacy next week at Chevalier's Books! RSVP: buff.ly/1nGiOG1

Illuminating the long-verboten theme of family disaffection and challenging the expectation that it always result in reconciliation, NO CONTACT: WRITERS ON ESTRANGEMENT is out this week from @jennybartoy.bsky.social and @catapultbooks.bsky.social. Bonus: @cherylstrayed.bsky.social is a contributor.

Special delivery from @catapultbooks.bsky.social!!! My bookshelf just got a whole lot more purple.

Happy Publication Day to @jennybartoy.bsky.social! I'm honored to be one of the contributors to No Contact: Writers on Estrangement, edited by Jenny Bartoy, published by @catapultbooks.bsky.social. This book is available everywhere books are sold: books.catapult.co/books/no-con...

I look forward to being in conversation with @jennybartoy.bsky.social, the editor of No Contact: Writers on Estrangement, and with fellow contributors tonight at Liz's Book Bar in Brooklyn. This anthology is out today, published by @catapultbooks.bsky.social. books.catapult.co/books/no-con...

This excellent and much-needed anthology comes out today!! And I'm one of its contributors! Forever grateful to @jennybartoy.bsky.social for assembling this deeply important collection on estrangement.