Today’s Reading List: Catapult Instructors and Contributors

Stories from The New York Times, Lenny, Hazlitt, and more.

Our instructors and contributors have had a busy summer. Here are some of our favorite pieces by our talented community, published all over the web in recent months.

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In Kaitlyn Greenidge’s new short story for Lenny, an elderly father begins to repeat “I love Betty,” leaving his two children looking for answers.

Leigh Stein asks: Do you have to end your memoir with a marriage?

At Real Life, Tony Tulathimutte asks what it really means to waste one’s time—and gets hooked on Clash of Clans.

Angela Flournoy writes about Kanye West, the brand and the artist.

“We swallow our guilt in the same way we swallow our truths.” Nicole Dennis-Benn on girlhood, responsibility, and growing up in Jamaica.

Alana Massey wonders why Hollywood’s onscreen sex workers have no friends.

If you’ve ever found yourself stuck somewhere without any reading material, you need to read Michele Filgate’s “How to Solve a Book Emergency.”

“Anonymity, to me, is trash; pseudonymity is treasure.” Chelsea G. Summers on online anonymity and writing under a pseudonym.

Sarah Gerard kicks off a new monthly column for Hazlitt with an essay about her relationship to food, ten years into recovery from bulimia and anorexia.

“I am neither one nor other.” Ka Bradley meditates on her name—both the name she was given and the name she has chosen for herself.

In search of new beginnings (and mooseburgers): Sara Nović travels to Newfoundland.

For Lenny, Jasmine Sanders writes about Toni Morrison’s Beloved, reproductive justice, and her own teenage miscarriage.

Meet Devi Asmadiredja: Tara Isabella Burton travels to Georgia to get to know “the hermit of the Caucasus.”

Keah Brown on aging, nostalgia, and learning to cope with the passing of time, for Femsplain.

Helena Fitzgerald takes on breakfast at Extra Crispy—writing about both the feels of bacon and the green ideology of avocado toast.

“At least we don’t have to fight over it.” Read a short story by Amelia Gray about one family’s rather unusual inheritance.