Counterpoint: 634 books
Names for the Sea
Strangers in Iceland
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
A memoir of a family’s year living in Reykjavik that “captures the fierce beauty of the Arctic landscape” (Booklist).
Sarah Moss had a childhood dream of moving to Iceland, sustained by a wild summer there when she was nineteen. In 2009, she saw an advertisement for a job at the University...
The Mezcal Rush
Explorations in Agave Country
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
"A rich, inclusive portrait of one of the world's great drinks." —Kirkus Reviews
Mezcal. In recent years, the oldest spirit in the Americas has been reinvented as a pricy positional good popular among booze connoisseurs and the mixologists who use it as a cocktail ingredient. Unlike...
Memorable Days
The Selected Letters of James Salter and Robert Phelps
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
“[A] well-edited collection . . . More than friends and less than lovers, Salter and Phelps were literary soul mates.” —Publishers Weekly
It was James Salter’s third novel, A Sport and a Pastime—together with his film Three and a script he had written for Downhill Racer—that in...
Writers in Paris
Literary Lives in the City of Light
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
A revealing history of writers who lived in Paris, from Moliére to Henry Miller: the basis for one of Lonely Planet’s Top 10 Literary Walking Tours.
No city has attracted so much literary talent, launched so many illustrious careers, or produced such a wealth of enduring literature as Paris....
This Present Moment
New Poems
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
"This present moment
That lives on
To become
Long ago."
For his first collection of new poems since his celebrated Danger on Peaks, published in 2004, Gary Snyder finds himself ranging over the planet. Journeys to the Dolomites, to the north shore of Lake Tahoe, from...
On Highway 61
Music, Race and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
“An essential volume for music lovers.” —East Bay Times
On Highway 61 searches for the deeper roots of American cultural and musical evolution over the past 150 years—by studying what the Western European culture learned from African American culture in a historical progression that...
Sleeping Where I Fall
A Chronicle
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
In his energetic, funny, and intelligent memoir, Peter Coyote relives his fifteen-year ride through the heart of the counterculture-a journey that took him from the quiet rooms of privilege as the son of an East Coast stockbroker to the riotous life of political street theater and the self-imposed...
A Complicated Marriage
My Life with Clement Greenberg
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
A “winningly candid” memoir of life among art scene insiders, and a passionate and unconventional marriage to eminent art critic Clement Greenberg (Los Angeles Review of Books).
In 1955, Jenny Van Horne, a young and naïve Bennington College graduate, is on her own for the first time in...
Nature as Measure
The Selected Essays of Wes Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
An essential and timely collection of wise and compelling essays from one of the longtime leaders of the sustainable agriculture movement in America.
Wes Jackson, “a well-known and admired advocate for sustainability especially as it relates to agriculture, has the rare ability to transform his...
Babel's Dawn
A Natural History of the Origins of Speech
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Babel’s Dawn is a saga covering six million years. Like a walk through a natural history museum, Bolles demonstrates how members of the human lineage came to speak. Beginning with a scene of the last common ancestor ignoring a bird as it flies by, he guides us through generations, illuminating how...
by Wes Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
A ringing cry to forge a meaningful connection to the land by a leading voice in the sustainable agriculture movement: “A small book rich in ideas” (New York Times).
The New World―this empty land dazzlingly rich in forests, soils, rainfall, and mineral wealth―was to represent a new...
The Last Pilgrimage
My Mother's Life and Our Journey to Saying Goodbye
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
A daughter recalls her last years with her mother in a “gorgeous love story and spiritual travelogue . . . a wonderfully written, funny, and fantastic memoir” (Jamie Lee Curtis).
Linda Daly’s mother Nancy was a highly regarded figure in Los Angeles’ cultural and philanthropic arenas—until...
The River of Heaven
The Haiku of Basho, Buson, Issa, and Shiki
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
“In this, his final work, American senior Zen Roshi Robert Aitken lovingly ties together two threads, Zen practice and haiku.” —Spirituality & Health
Known to many as the study of quiet stillness and introspection, Zen Buddhism distinguishes itself through brilliant flashes of insight...
Interlock
Art, Conspiracy, and the Shadow Worlds of Mark Lombardi
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
“The first biography to explore the life and suspicious death of . . . a controversial artist whose drawings walked the line between art and information.” —WhoWhatWhy
In the fateful month of March 2000, shortly after opening a hugely successful show in New York that unveiled the more nefarious...