Counterpoint: 634 books
Love, InshAllah
The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
“A book that strips off the traditional trappings of Islamic womanhood to expose the special strengths and vulnerabilities that lie beneath.” —The Washington Post
Romance, dating, sex and—Muslim women? In this groundbreaking collection, twenty-five American Muslim writers sweep aside...
Turf
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
**“Twenty-two often witty, sometimes-disquieting short stories . . . Autobiography and imagination walking hand in hand into the sunset.” —**Kirkus Reviews
An Electric Literature Best Short Story Collection of 2017
Through her three story collections and two novels, Elizabeth Crane’s...
by Anna David
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
“Hysterical and touching” confessions drawn from the New York Times–bestselling author’s hit storytelling stage shows and podcast (Publishers Weekly).
Anna David’s project began as a live venue for writers and comedians to share and laugh and cringe at their love-gone-wrong disaster...
Black Hole
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
A “scabrously funny novel” about designer drugs, dead-end jobs, and murder set in the San Francisco of the near future (Publishers Weekly).
There are no old drug addicts. That’s what everyone says, at least. So how is Chuck forty three years old and still neck-deep in this scene? He knows...
Stranger Than We Can Imagine
An Alternative History of the 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
The extraordinary story of the twentieth century, as told from the furthest fringes of science, art, and culture.
Before 1900, history was an account of great discoveries that actually made sense. People understand innovations like the steam engine, agriculture, or electricity. The twentieth...
by Gary Brecher
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
“[A] raucous, offensive, and sometimes amusing CliffsNotes compilation of wars both well-known and ignored.” —Utne Reader
Self-described war nerd Gary Brecher knows he’s not alone, that there’s a legion of fat, lonely Americans, stuck in stupid, paper-pushing desk jobs, who get off...
Down and Derby
The Insider's Guide to Roller Derby
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
“Part manifesto, part how-to-guide . . . required reading for anyone who’s searching for new ways to be fearless.” —Carrie Brownstein
When most Americans hear the words “roller derby” today, they think of the kitschy sport once popular on weekend television during the seventies...
Reeling Through Life
How I Learned to Live, Love, and Die at the Movies
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
An “insightful [and] original blend of memoir and film criticism” explores how what we watch shapes our identities (Chicago Tribune).
Winner of the PEN Southwest Award for Creative Nonfiction
Through ten cleverly constructed essays, author, screenwriter, and passionate film buff...
Box Girl
My Part-Time Job as an Art Installation
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
A whip-smart account of the author’s turbulent 20s, told in a “self-effacing and wryly humorous young voice in the tenor of Sloan Crosley and Lena Dunham” (Booklist).
When 22-year-old Lilibet Snellings moved to Los Angeles on a whim, she unintentionally became a “slash” to keep her head...
Black Cool
One Thousand Streams of Blackness
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
This “probing collection”—edited by the author of Black, White and Jewish—explores Black Cool with entries from bell hooks, Margo Jefferson and many more (Kirkus).
This collection of essays conceived of and edited by Rebecca Walker explores the ineffable state and protean aesthetics...
An Apple a Day
A Memoir of Love and Recovery from Anorexia
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
“She does a good job of explaining how an anorexic worries that if she relaxes the rules, she will be insatiable. An insightful and fascinating read.” —Booklist
I haven’t tasted chocolate for over ten years and now I’m walking down the street unwrapping a Kit Kat . . . Remember when...
by Neil Jordan
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Menace both real and imagined haunt two Dubliners in this “unsettling . . . seductive” modern Gothic “that ultimately leaves one gasping” (Irish Times).
“Vampires, secrets, the mysteries of identity: the obsessions that run through the director Neil Jordan’s films are at the center...
Exile Nation
Drugs, Prisons, Politics & Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
“Exile Nation tells the dirty story none of us really wants to hear . . . Shaw ‘did time’ in prison and lived to write about it.” —John Perkins, New York Times bestselling author
Originally published as a series on Reality Sandwich and The Huffington Post, Exile Nation is a work of...
Margaret the First
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
A “strikingly smart” novel dramatizing the life of a highly unconventional duchess in seventeenth-century England (Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation).
Chosen as a Lit Hub Best Book of 2016, an Entropy Best Book of 2016, and one of Electric Literature’s Best Novels of 2016
Margaret...