Counterpoint imprint: 558 books
Dooby Lane
Also Known as Guru Road, A Testament Inscribed in Stone Tablets by DeWayne Williams
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
If left alone, what might a place say? If we must leave it, what must we leave behind? Guru Road, Dooby Lane. It was in this place where, nearly twenty years ago, Gary Snyder discovered, considered, and chronicled such latitudinal ruminations by way of one man, DeWayne Dooby” Williams, and the...
Danger on Peaks
The Deluxe Audio Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
We are proud to continue our project of publishing Deluxe Audio Editions of the poems of Gary Snyder, read by him. When first published in 2004, it was the poet’s first new collection of poems in twenty years. Perhaps his most personal, autobiographical collection, it begins with the young poet...
Castaways of the Image Planet
Movies, Show Business, Public Spectacle
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
One of our best cultural critics here collects sixteen years' worth of essays on film and popular culture. Topics range from the invention of cinema to contemporary F-X aesthetics, from Shakespeare on film to Seinfeld, and we include essays on 30's screwball comedies, Hong Kong Martial Arts movies,...
by Robert Cantwell, Jess Walter
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
A labor strike at a lumber mill divides a town based on the author's hometown of Aberdeen, Washington. "The Land of Plenty" portrays the blue-collar workers' struggle for existence and depicts, with sensitivity and compassion, workers and owners alike in their poverty, depravity, and their...
Swallow the Ocean
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
An “extraordinary” memoir of growing up in 1970s San Francisco with a paranoid schizophrenic mother (Booklist, starred review).
When Laura Flynn was a little girl, her beautiful, dynamic mother, Sally, was the center of her imagination. It wasn’t long, however, before Sally’s fun-loving...
Three Masquerades
Novellas by Rachel Ingalls
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
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The fiction of Rachel Ingalls has haunted me for years. The plots are dramatic, even exaggerated, but the books are quiet and short. The language is plain but curious. I’ve gathered here three works of hers. Two of these are frightening and one less so, although I sometimes change...
Every Third Thought
A Novel in Five Seasons
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
A “multilayered comic masterpiece” by the National Book Award–winning master of wildly inventive contemporary fiction (Library Journal).
John Barth stays true to form in Every Third Thought, written from the perspective of a character Barth introduced in his short story collection The...
The Hour of Lead
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
A “riveting and beautifully written” epic family saga imbued with Western mythology, from the acclaimed author of Lonesome Animals (Seattle Times).
“Bruce Holbert is a lyrical, soulful chronicler of our ever-changing West.” —Jess Walter, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Beautiful...
Tristimania
A Diary of Manic Depression
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
The author of A Country Called Childhood delivers “a glimpse of madness from inside the eye of the storm” (The Guardian**).**
*Tristimania *is a stark and lyrical account of the psyche in crisis. It tells the story of a devastating year-long episode of manic depression, culminating in a long...
The Forest House
A Year's Journey Into the Landscape of Love, Loss, and Starting Over
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Following divorce, Fraser resolves to stay in the small mountain town where her son’s father lives, but it soon proves too claustrophobic. She finds relief a world away in a small house up a winding road tucked so far into the forest one forgets it is technically still in town. It’s in this small...
Apricot Jam
And Other Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
A powerful collection of stories from the great exiled Russian novelist and Nobel Prize winner.
After years of living in exile, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia in 1994 and published a series of eight powerfully paired stories. These groundbreaking stories—interconnected and juxtaposed...
The Baker's Tale
Ruby Spriggs and the Legacy of Charles Dickens
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
An evocative historical novel that explores the rising influence of Dickens’s work in mid-19th century London through the journey of a young woman’s struggle against poverty and injustice.
In the winter of 1836, a young journalist named Charles Dickens held an infant in his arms. Only eight...
Architecture of the Novel
A Writer's Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Advice on building a work of fiction, from “a writer of great daring and skill to match” (Newsweek).
From a highly acclaimed author who has spent many years teaching the craft of fiction writing, Architecture of the Novel is an ambitious blueprint for writers, one that reveals the underlying...
River of Ink
[An Illustrated History of Literacy]
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
With its title harkening back to the sack of Baghdad in 1258-when the Tigris ran black with the ink of books flung into the water by Mongol invaders-River of Ink is a collection of essays that range widely across time and cultures to illuminate the role of literature and art throughout history. Christensen...