Former Little, Brown editor Pat Strachan has joined publishing start up Catapult as editor in chief, with the company launching in September 2015, distributed by PGW. Padgett Powell’s story collection Cries for Help, Various is the first title, followed by Gavin McCrea’s first novel, Mrs. Engels in October. Both manuscripts will be shared with booksellers at next week’s Winter Institute, and by spring 2016 Catapult expects to publish 12 titles a year. Strachan says in the announcement: “Catapult will promote American and international fiction and narrative nonfiction that is alive, insightful, illuminating, stirring, and surprising by way of singular writers—whether emerging or established—who […]