catapult magazine

Items tagged book

• Doing what I love

  An artist reflects on the joys and challenges of drawing stories.

• This book changed my life

  On experiencing a devalued catchphrase for one's self.

• Conversation: “Changing Minds”

  Chip in your two cents about a book, film, lecture or anything else that helped change your mind about something.

• Half a library

  A list-in-progress of formative collections.

• To the letter

  A review of A.J. Jacobs' book The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible.

• Memorable leaves

  How a book became a companion in pained solitude.

• Standing alone

  A review of the 1974 young adult novel The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier.

• Writing with light

  The photographs of Andre Kertesz and the world of stories, and the stories of the world.

• More than a good story

  How a children's book shaped a lifelong approach to singing.

• The tree of sacrifice, the tree of communication

  A tour of images, holidays, uses, poems and ideas related to trees.

• A mother’s manifesto?

  Framing home and motherhood in terms of Isaiah's vision of family as a powerful symbol.

• Ten things you can do to make your family vacation more community-building

  A list, counter-intuitive for some, on how to hit the road together.

• The age of stinky books is upon us

  Confessions of a recent convert to the e-reader.

• Page turning and the illusion of permanence

  A defense of the book and, above all, the living Word.

• A kindled imagination

  How a book loyalist came to appreciate the company of an e-reader.

• Writing to remember

  On the loss of love letters in a technological age.

• Tesser well

  Lessons from a writer, to a writer, transcend the boundaries of time and space.

• Crying out

  An apologetic for the imaginative power of books over movies.

• An ode to the bookmark

  On the interaction between the stories on the page and the stories stuck between them.

• The second book on my shelf

  A tribute to a formational book that still speaks wisdom after 115 years.

• My childhood friends

  A mom looks back on her favorite books and ahead to her own daughter's young reading years.

• The book that changed my life

  A confession about the power of the written word.

• Looking for lunas

  An excerpt from the new middle grade novel Stranger Moon.

• Making friends with books

  The evolution of one writer’s reading, from remedial to formative.

• Bookshelf porn

  Contemplating the shelf-shaped hole in our lives.

• Forget ten things -- what about 1,000?

  A review of the audiobook One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp.

• Book

  An imaginative profile of a complex character.

• Writing Maleek: A prayer

  The road to authoring a children’s book about hunger.

• Facts and fictions

  On following the breadcrumbs of truth through the stories of childhood.

• A book that bites

  When a book about vampires overlaps with real life.