Counterpoint imprint: 558 books

The Big Why

A Novel

by Michael Winter, Patrick deWitt
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017

Michael Winter's The Big Why takes the tradition of the historical novel and twists it into the cool, sinuous, entertaining shape we’ve all been waiting for. His characters are real and from the past, but the lives they live feel contemporary and emotionally modern. Winter’s version of...

Black Swans

Stories

by Eve Babitz
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018

Following the wildly successful reception of Eve Babitz's novel, Sex and Rage, comes the reissue of her gorgeous story collection, Black Swans Eve Babitz's writing speaks to a whole new generation of readers, and is just as totemic a writer to young women today as Francesa Lia Block's Weetzie...
by Steven Nightingale
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

by Daniel Bullen
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,...

The Four Chinese Classics

Tao Te Ching, Analects, Chuang Tzu, Mencius

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Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013

The books collected in this volume represent the first time since the mid-nineteenth century that the four seminal masterworks of ancient Chinese thought have been translated as a unified series by a single translator. Hinton's award-winning experience translating a wide range of ancient Chinese poets...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014

While Confucius failed in his lifetime to rescue a crumbling civilization with his teachings, he was to become the most influential sage in human history. His thought, still remarkably current and even innovative after 2500 years, survives here in The Analects - a collection of brief aphoristic...

Flying to America

45 More Stories

by Donald Barthelme, Kim Herzinger
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....

The Dogs are Eating Them Now

Our War in Afghanistan

by Graeme Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015

The Dogs are Eating Them Now is a highly personal narrative of our war in Afghanistan and how it went dangerously wrong. Written by a respected and fearless former foreign correspondent who has won multiple awards for his journalism (including an Emmy for the video series "Talking with the Taliban")...
by Julie Hayden, Cheryl Strayed
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014

In selecting The Lists of the Past as her nomination for reissue by Pharos Editions, Cheryl Strayed was moved by “the intelligent, emotional depth and breadth” of the stories, all but two of which originally appeared in the New Yorker. Hayden’s New York hums with eccentric observation, humor...
by David Biespiel
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017

"Biespiel’s supple memoir of becoming a poet will surely inspire other writers to embrace the bodily character of writing and feel the power and, sometimes, the emptiness of the act of writing poetry." —Publishers Weekly (starred review) The Education of a Young Poet is David...

Spiritual American Trash

Portraits from the Margins of Art and Faith

by Greg Bottoms
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013

In Spiritual American Trash, Greg Bottoms goes beyond the examination of eight “outsider artists” and inhabits the spirit of their work and stories in engaging vignettes. From the janitor who created a holy throne room out of scraps in a garage, to the lonely wartime mother who filled her home...
by Anna Journey
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017

A daring collection on the human body by an award-winning poet turned essayist Anna Journey’s lyrical and layered arrangement of essays dazzles with her reflections on our shifting selves—the many “skins” we inhabit in a life. An Arrangement of Skin is by turns beguiling, dark, carnal,...

Creating the Future

Art and Los Angeles in the 1970s

by Michael Fallon
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014

Conceived as a challenge to long-standing conventional wisdom, Creating the Future is a work of social history/cultural criticism that examines the premise that the progress of art in Los Angeles ceased during the 1970s—after the decline of the Ferus Gallery, the scattering of its stable of artists...

Trotsky in New York, 1917

A Radical on the Eve of Revolution

by Kenneth D. Ackerman
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016

Lev Davidovich Trotsky burst onto the world stage in November 1917 as co-leader of a Marxist Revolution seizing power in Russia. It made him one of the most recognized personalities of the Twentieth Century, a global icon of radical change. Yet just months earlier, this same Lev Trotsky was a nobody,...
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