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Life as a Whole Foods Cashier

Writers are accustomed to having other jobs and before working at Esquire and Vanity Fair, Lucie Shelly found meaning in the trials and tribulations of being a Whole Foods cashier. Over at Catapult, Shelly writes nostalgically about feeling…

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The Power of Incompleteness

The “Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible” exhibition at the Met Breuer Gallery meant more than just incomplete art, writer Patricia Park shares at Catapult. Park was invited to speak at the exhibition’s…

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Rethink Your First Chapter

For Catapult, Anuradha Roy talks about the process of receiving editorial feedback and how we’re inclined to react poorly to that feedback. Roy takes us from the phone call from…

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A Good Mom, a Progressive Mom, a Cool Mom

At Catapult, Rachel Klein shares her experience as a mother of a transitioning child: I was worried, like most people are at their core, about myself. I was not being…

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Stories in Their Hair

Jessica Miller writes for Catapult on hair during World War II, using the practical reality of people’s hair to glimpse into war’s ordinary life and extraordinary horrors.

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What Do You Call It?

Book titles are an essential component of the texts they gesture at. They’re also advertising. At Catapult, Hannah Gersen recounts the naming process for her novel Home Field: A short story title…

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Notable New York

Notable NYC: 7/9–7/15

Sunday 7/10: David Tomas Martinez, Sassafras Lowrey, and Kendra Eash join The Hustle, a series about habits of writers supporting their work. WORD Brooklyn, 2 p.m., free. Christine Reilly, Jenna…

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The Read Along: Megha Majumdar

Megha Majumdar on Russian spies, child-sized newspapers, and why reading difficult fiction can invigorate, rather than depress.

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Performing Feminism

For Catapult, Kashana Cauley writes on the divide between feminist action and feminist discourse, and the deep class divisions that shape each permutation of feminism.

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Three Ventures, One Goal

Over at Publishing Perspectives, Andy Hunter, Publisher & COO of Catapult, Publisher of Literary Hub, and Co-Founding Chairman of Electric Literature, explains the different approaches but shared mission of his…

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A Literary Homecoming

Author Matthew Neill Null writes at Catapult about a college class on Central Europe that changed the course of his reading and writing life: My new professor, with his reading…

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The Sound of White Flight

Over at Catapult, Kashana Cauley explores the origins of the Midwestern accent and discovers its roots in racial segregation: Apparently it wasn’t enough for GLVS [Great Lakes Vowel Shift] speakers…

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