Counterpoint: 634 books
Trotsky in New York, 1917
A Radical on the Eve of Revolution
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,...
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...
What Language Do I Dream In?
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Taking its title from a question often asked of polyglots, What Language Do I Dream In? is Elena Lappin's stunning memoir about how language runs throughout memory and family history to form identity. Lappin’s life could be described as “five languages in search of an author”, and as a multiple...
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...
Here Comes the Night
The Dark Soul of Bert Berns and the Dirty Business of Rhythm and Blues
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
I don’t know where he’s buried, but if I did I’d piss on his grave.” Jerry Wexler, best friend and mentor
Here Comes the Night: Bert Berns and the Dirty Business of Rhythm and Blues is both a definitive account of the New York rhythm and blues world of the early 60s, and the harrowing,...
Heart Berries
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
**A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Selected by Emma Watson as the Our Shared Shelf Book Club Pick for March/April 2018
A New York Times Editor's Choice
A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection
"A sledgehammer. . . . Her experiments with structure and language . . . are in the...
by Gary Snyder
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
In 1953, Gary Snyder returned to the Bay Area and, at age 23, enrolled in graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, to study Asian languages and culture. He intensified his study of Chinese and Japanese, and taking up the challenge of one of his professors, Chen Shih-hsiang, he began...
Voices
How a Great Singer Can Change Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
"Voices isn't just illuminating and thought-provoking and clever; it is exciting." —Roddy Doyle, author of The Commitments
A personal exploration of what singing means and how it works, Voices is a book about our deepest, most telling relationships with music. Nick Coleman examines...
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...
The Flying Troutmans
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
"This saga of bad luck and good company is a wry, scary, heartfelt ode to the traverses we have to make in life when we're at the end of our rope and there's no net below us." —ELLE
When Hattie's moody boyfriend dumps her in Paris, she returns home to find that her sister Min is...
I Have Seen the Future
A Life of Lincoln Steffens
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2011
“A fascinating history of the age when magazine writers steered national opinion . . . This is an extraordinary book about a complex man.” —American Journalism Review
At the dawn of the twentieth century, Lincoln Steffens, an internationally known and respected political insider, went...
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...