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THE REPEAT ROOM is one of Veronica Roth's favorite dystopian novels! "Ball marries the incisive and the surreal in THE REPEAT ROOM, which puts a strange, dark spin on the already unsettling experience of jury duty." — @nytimes buff.ly/uxSNJIr
✨ COVER ANNOUNCEMENT ✨ We're thrilled to share the cover of Anastasiia Fedorova's SECOND SKIN, designed by @nlcaputo 🖤 SECOND SKIN hits bookstores and libraries on 2/10/26 and is available to preorder now!

Congratulations to THE HOLLOW HALF author Sarah Aziza for winning the 2025 Krause Essay Prize for her essay “The Work of the Witness!” Read the full announcement here: buff.ly/t2WTpt8
Congratulations to @LydiConklin for making the @Center4Fiction 2025 First Novel Prize longlist for SONGS OF NO PROVENANCE! Check out the full longlist here: buff.ly/uU02n71

Aatish Taseer chatted with @npratc about culture, identity, and his new book A RETURN TO SELF! Listen now: buff.ly/8it06k5
Thanks to all who came out to @AatishTaseer's event last night @strandbookstore to celebrate the release of A RETURN TO SELF! 📚 (Photo Credit: Benny Harps, Strand Bookstore)



Yasmin Zaher's THE COIN is now available in paperback! Just in time to add to your summer reading list! ☀️ ⭐ "A smart, sneering novel of capital and its consequences." — @nytimesbooks ⭐ "A dizzying portrait of a woman on the edge." — @TIME

New Job Alert! Come work with us! Our group is looking for an Associate Editor, focusing on nonfiction for the @CatapultStory imprint. Apply 👇👇 📚📚 publishersmarketplace.com/jobs/view.cgi?…
It’s pub day and @TIME (where my writing career began) has just published an excerpt from the introduction of “A Return to Self: Excursions in Exile.” ❤️In Exile, I Lost India But Gained a Home time.com/7297264/exile-…
This week marks my 7-year anniversary working at @CatapultStory with the most brilliant authors and translators, the kindest and hardest-working colleagues 🫶🏼 feeling immensely grateful today and always 💫
Our latest podcast conversation is with @xbennyboo! She joined the podcast to discuss her debut novel, HOT GIRLS WITH BALLS! Listen below. Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hot… Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6XaZO8… @CatapultStory
A Return to Self by @AatishTaseer is a @The_Millions Most Anticipated Book of the Summer! Coming next week from @CatapultStory 💫 themillions.com/2025/07/the-mi…
LIVE NOW: a pre-order sale of “A Return to Self” @BNBuzz. Will last only until 7/11! barnesandnoble.com/w/a-return-to-…
Benedict Nguyen chatted with @autostraddle about how writing made her a better dancer, social media and the world of influencers, and her new book HOT GIRLS WITH BALLS (out now!). buff.ly/hTIYuav
Happy 4th! Hope you're all spending the day relaxing and diving into some hot summer reads (such as the ones pictured here 👀 ). Enjoy! ☀️ 🍔 🌭 📚

"Benedict Nguyễn’s debut novel is both tender and ruthless about the frictions of being internet famous. . . HOT GIRLS WITH BALLS brims with charisma, envy, sabotage and taut, taut muscles." — @XtraMagazine buff.ly/opK09qm
Not one, not two, but SEVEN @CatapultStory titles on @lithub's Most Anticipated list 🥂 Congrats to Benedict Nguyen, Daniel Saldaña París, Marissa Higgins, Jordan Castro, Brenda Lozano, Anika Jade Levy & Davey Davis! 2025 is huuuge ❤️🔥 lithub.com/lit-hubs-most-…
Hot girl summer has arrived! ☀️ Happy publication day to @xbennyboo's HOT GIRLS WITH BALLS! 🏐 ✨ 🏐 ✨ ✨ A July 2025 ABA Indie Next Pick ✨ ✨ Named a most-anticipated book by @MsMagazine, @goodreads, @bookriot, @lithub, @ElectricLit, & more! ✨

HOT GIRLS WITH BALLS is "a sharp, funny, lively book about the wildly horrifying transphobic, conservative politics of contemporary American society," according to @OprahDaily! buff.ly/f75SvpG
HOT GIRLS WITH BALLS and SWEETENER have been named two of the hottest LGBTQ+ books of the summer by @Queerty! buff.ly/Fn3GhIw