Katy Carl

Keep and Other Stories

Fiction

“Peter Biles has made these lean, lively, surprising stories lithe enough to perform a challenging but necessary one-two move: They push back with wry, dark humor against late American tendencies to monetize, commodify, and falsify experience; yet they also stretch beyond satire to demand a tender attention to the easily missed yet priceless beauties of an examined life. In one protagonist’s words, ‘Sometimes God shows us remarkable ordinaries just so we’ll look.’ Biles does, too.”

Our Lady of the Sign

Fiction

“With relentless, surging candor, Favale’s mystical realism lays open the inner consistency of so many paradigmatically female experiences. Simone’s hero’s journey not only ferrets out the precise spot where the cancer of internalized misogyny has been growing in secret but also opens a portal toward remedy and remission.”

The Stag with Crystal Horns and Other Tales

Fiction

“Shades of Ovid, Malory, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Anderson, Chesterton, Alcott, Burnett, E. Nesbit, and more—interlaced with a wit all the author’s own—glimmer playfully through the lines of Grace Fitzpatrick’s unique collection of tales. These stories make it clear that Fitzpatrick knows firsthand, not only the insatiable childlike appetite for story and delight, but also just what to do about it.”

Undaunted Joy

Christian Living

“It’s rare to come across a book that so thoroughly embodies its own message. Shemaiah Gonzalez’s study of joy is a joy: to read, to engage, to behold. Her clear-eyed insistence on choosing all that is good—and offering unapologetic resistance to the demands of evil—cuts through every false complication to reveal the beautiful truth at the core of things. Let her show you how to do the same.”

Wondrous Reading

Discipleship & Christian Education

“At once erudite and warm, D’Amico’s winsome re-presentation of universally beloved youth classics through a Catholic lens will provide parents and others who care for children with fresh insight into why the ‘thousand good books’ matter to human formation and faith. From the youngest readers to those who are ready to address more challenging themes, D’Amico uses key texts to help caregivers better understand the characteristic intellectual and spiritual needs of each stage of development. Here is wise guidance for how and why to build and bolster early reading habits, from a mind that has thought long and fruitfully about how to ‘do all to the glory of God.’”