Counterpoint Press: 319 books
by Scott Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
“Pitch-perfect noir”: in post-WWII America, a soldier is haunted by wartime secrets as he plans to destroy the aircraft industry in his Kansas hometown (Library Journal).
The war is over, but that doesn’t mean things are better for PR man Wayne Ogden or any of the returning vets. Their home...
Gold Diggers
Striking It Rich in the Klondike
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
“Gray memorably resuscitates the life of the miners . . . A lively, delightful reenactment of a single era of ‘Klondike mythology.’” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Between 1896 and 1899, thousands of people lured by gold braved a grueling journey into the remote wilderness of North...
The Bishop's Man
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
A priest charged with cleaning up church scandals finds his faith tested in this “engrossing” novel “with the page-turning energy of a thriller” (The Globe and Mail).
Father Duncan MacAskill knows all the devious ways priests allow themselves to indulge their temptations. He’s known as...
Boundless
Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
From the author of Annabel: A “compulsively readable” journey through the Canadian arctic that “lay[s] bare the beauty of both the world and the soul” (Globe and Mail).
In 2010, Kathleen Winter embarked on a journey across the storied Northwest Passage, among marine scientists, historians,...
The Hot Climate of Promises and Grace
64 Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
“These gem-like tales form a kind of love song to the feminine principle, that aspect of each of us that is irrational, untamed, and intuitive.” —Lisa Alther
With these short stories, Steven Nightingale offers testimonies of revelation, mischief, miracles, and grace given him by sixty-four...
The Love Lives of the Artists
Five Stories of Creative Intimacy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
A “captivating exploration” of five of the most famous artist couples of the 20th century in all their love, tumult, and creative passion (Kirkus Reviews).
The Love Lives of the Artists tells the stories of Rainer Maria Rilke and Lou Andreas-Salomé, Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O’Keeffe,...
Flying to America
45 More Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2008
A volume of the National Book Award–winning author’s uncollected—and three previously unpublished—short stories “arrives like a wonderous jewel unearthed” (Literary Journal).
Donald Barthelme is widely recognized as one of the most influential and inventive writers of the 20th century....
Harley and Me
Embracing Risk on the Road to a More Authentic Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
This memoir of riding a motorcycle at midlife is “a stirring reminder that it’s never too late to become the person you were meant to be” (New York Times–bestselling author Sarah Hepola).
It’s a fact that we become more risk averse in our later years —which, according to psychology...
An Absorbing Errand
How Artists and Craftsmen Make Their Way to Mastery
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
“A comprehensive, insightful, and articulate guide for everyone who has ever attempted to make art.” —San Francisco Chronicle
An Absorbing Errand uses stories of artist’s lives, personal anecdotes, and insights from the author’s work as a psychotherapist to examine the psychological...
The Country of Marriage
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The fifth volume of poetry—including three poems about the Mad Farmer—from the celebrated “beautiful, accessible poet [of] maverick conscience” (Kirkus Reviews).
First published in 1971, The Country of Marriage is Wendell Berry’s fifth volume of poetry. What he calls “an expansive...
The Capitalism Papers
Fatal Flaws of an Obsolete System
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
An environmentalist and intellectual gadfly foretells the imminent failure of the capitalist experiment.
In the vein of his bestseller, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, nationally recognized social critic Jerry Mander researches, discusses, and exposes the momentous and unsolvable...
I Told You So
Gore Vidal Talks Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Interviews with the legendarily caustic commentator and National Book Award winner, on topics from the American empire to the national security state.
If there’s a hole in the road, I will, viciously, outrageously, say there’s a hole in the road and if you don’t fill it in you’ll break...
East Hill Farm
Seasons with Allen Ginsberg
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
A memoir of the upstate New York getaway where the icons of the Beat Generation gathered.
During the late 1960s, when peace, drugs, and free love were direct challenges to conventional society, Allen Ginsberg, treasurer of the Committee on Poetry, Inc., funded what he hoped was “a haven for...
Final Fridays
Essays, Lectures, Tributes & Other Nonfiction, 1995–
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
An exuberant and erudite collection of essays by “one of the most important novelist-teachers of 20th-century letters” (Publishers Weekly).
For decades, acclaimed author John Barth has strayed from his Monday-through-Thursday-morning routine of fiction-writing and dedicated Friday mornings...