“If you don’t tell the story someone else might, and they’ll change the facts”: José Vadi and Mensah Demary in Conversation
José Vadi’s work for Catapult magazine was unlike anything I’d encountered before. His essays are embodied and imbued with musicality, experimentation, play, and risk. After editing and publishing his essay “Getting to Suzy’s,” an on-the-ground examination of life in San Francisco amid rampant gentrification, I invited José to submit more work. And after publishing two […]
Watchword: How Octavia Butler Teaches Us Persistence
Of all the things that have come and gone in my life, I wanted this one thing, just one: to be a writer.
Watchword: A Writer Should Keep the Future in Mind
No one else can judge your practice. You must believe in the work that is in front of you, taking shape before your eyes.
Watchword: On Toni Morrison’s “The Future of Time”
Morrison understood that the future is animated and expressed through us.
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A Conversation with Adrian Shirk
“The conversation between the past and the present in New York is always kind of ambivalent.”
A Conversation with Esmé Weijun Wang
“I naturally gravitate toward writing about the illness and the body.”
A Conversation with Kashana Cauley
“I aim to tell entertaining, partially personal, partially data-based stories.”
Recap: Jane Alison’s Nine Island Launch at Housing Works
Catapult celebrates its newest book with readings and a panel discussion.
A Conversation with Andre Perry
“I wanted a way to talk to readers the way that I can only talk to my wife.”
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#CatapultReads: Staff Picks
Catapult staff members share their current reads