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A Counterpoint Robison reissue, released in tandem with Days Robison, a beloved writer and essential voice on the Counterpoint list, is one of the writers Counterpoint is celebrating by reissuing importance books from the backlist Major national media outlets have already expressed enthusiasm over the Robison reissues, and strong positive coverage is expected Display and newsletter co-ops available and encouraged

Robison is both wise and entertaining, a technician with a sense of humor, a minimalist with a good eye for what can be salvaged from lives of quiet desperation." -The New York Times Book Review The population of Mary Robison's fiction is the stunned citizenry of a world vaporized beneath them, people who say "all right" and "okay" often, not because they consent, but because nothing counts. Still, there are chronicles of small victories here,...

At first, Oh! seems a satire, a sitcom stripped of its sentiment and foolishness. But it is far more. Mary Robison is trying to show us how the the incredibly complicated dance of family life works." -The New Yorker Those who know Mary Robison's work will not be surprised that her first novel leaps from one prodigal moment to the next, for as Kenneth Burke has said of this startling writer, "Robison outguesses the shrewdest reader-even severa...

The fourth Counterpoint Robison reissue, after Tell Me in Spring 2018, released in tandem with Oh! Robison, a beloved writer and essential voice on the Counterpoint list, is one of the writers Counterpoint is celebrating by reissuing importance books from the backlist Major national media outlets have already expressed enthusiasm over the Robison reissues, and strong positive coverage is expected Display and newsletter co-ops available and enc...

The third Counterpoint Robison reissue, after Tell Me in Spring 2018, released in tandem with One D.O.A., One on the Way Robison, a beloved writer and essential voice on the Counterpoint list, is one of the writers Counterpoint is celebrating by reissuing importance books from the backlist Major national media outlets have already expressed enthusiasm over the Robison reissues, and strong positive coverage is expected Display and newsletter co...

The fourth Counterpoint Robison reissue, after Tell Me in Spring 2018, released in tandem with Subtraction Robison, a beloved writer and essential voice on the Counterpoint list, is one of the writers Counterpoint is celebrating by reissuing importance books from the backlist Major national media outlets have already expressed enthusiasm over the Robison reissues, and strong positive coverage is expected Display and newsletter co-ops available...

Robison has a poet's eye for the unconscious surrealism of commercial America." -The New York Times Book Review Tell Me reflects the early brilliance as well as the fulfilled promise of Mary Robison's literary career. In these stories-most of which appeared in The New Yorker throughout the eighties-we enter her sly world of plotters, absconders, ponderers, and pontificators. Robison's characters have chips on their shoulders, they talk back t...

Tense, moving, and hilarious . . . [A] dark jewel of a novel." -Francine Prose, O, The Oprah Magazine Three husbands have left her. I.R.S. agents are whamming on her door. And her beloved cat has gone missing. She's back and forth between Melanie, her secluded Southern town, and L.A., where she has a weakening grasp on her job as a script doctor. Having been sacked by most of the studios and convinced that her dealings with Hollywood have fra...

Why Did I Ever is startling, deft, extremely attractive, and smart--very smart--in its midnight vision of the lived life.

Chosen from Robison's three long-unavailable collections, along with four new stories, "Tell Me" reflects the early brilliance as well as the fulfilled promise of Mary Robison's literary career.

Enter Eve. Based in New Orleans, she's a location scout for a movie production company and complacently married to Adam. "Now you know, " she says. "Our names really didn't bother me that much until the mail started arriving addressed to 'Adam and Eve Broussard.'" He's just been diagnosed with a grave illness and gone back to the palatial family home where his parents reside. It's all just fine with Eve--or so she tells herself at the beginnin...