#CatapultReads: Staff Picks
Catapult staff members share their current reads
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History

Red SorghumOne Hundred Years of SolitudeAbsalomAbsalom!East of Eden

Toddler-Hunting and Other Stories

Paul Chan: Selected Writings 2000-2014

These Heroic, Happy Dead: Stories

HomegoingI’ve heard such great things about this, including from Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Fortune Smiles: Stories

Sweetbitter— from the book

Proxies: Essays Near Knowing

Mensah Demary is an editor for Catapult, and writes in Brooklyn. Find him on Twitter @mensah4000.
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