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Following her retirement from Princeton University, celebrated historian Dr. Painter surprised everyone in her life by returning to school--in her 60s--to earn a BFA and MFA in painting. Here, she struggles with the unstable balance between the pursuit of art and the inevitable, sometimes painful demands of a life fully lived.lly lived.

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,...

In the spirit of Maria Hummel's Still Lives and Megan Abbott's Give Me Your Hand comes a thrilling new page-turner by an award-winning writer of color Speaking of Summer is a psychological thriller about a young woman in Harlem whose twin sister goes missing from the roof of their building. But the door to the roof was locked, and no footprints were found. She sets about searching for her, dealing with her aching loss, and thus begins the nove...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Multilayered, subtle, insightful short stories from the inimitable Booker Prize-winning author, with an introduction by Anita Desai Nobody has written so powerfully of the relationship between and within India and the Western middle classes than Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. In this selection of stories, chosen by her surviving family, her ability to tenderly and humorously view the situations faced by t...

In a novel rich in historical detail, acclaimed author Eliot Pattison reconsiders the founding of America and explores how disenfranchised people of any age and place struggle to find justice, how conflicting cultures can be reconciled through compassion and tolerance, and ultimately how the natural world has its own morality. Aboard a British convict ship bound for the New World, protagonist Duncan McCallum witnesses a series of murders and ...

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A small-town election pits a violent if popular sheriff against those eager to see his iron rule end in this "riveting" historical true crime story about a landmark standoff between old time justice in 1940s small town Texas and a modern, more inclusive vision of the West (Dallas Morning News). Beeville, Texas, was the most American of small towns¿the place that GIs had fantasized about while fighting through the ruins of Europe, a place of g...

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Zemeckis is one of only a few burlesque historians world-wide, and she herself has spent more than a decade performing in burlesque. Zemeckis's last two books on burlesque have been favorably reviewed by The New York Times, Time, NPR, New York Magazine, and in 2014, Zemeckis, also an actress and producer, was profiled in The Huffington Post. In November 2018, Zemeckis will costar with Steve Carell and Diane Kruger in the new film The Women o...

WINNER FOR THE 2018 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTION AUTHOR IS THE WINNER OF THE 2018 PEN/MALAMUD AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN THE SHORT STORY Named 1 of 6 New Paperbacks You Should Read in August by Vulture Named 1 of 10 Top Fiction Titles of 2017 by the Wall Street Journal Named 1 of 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2017 by The Washington Post A New York Times Book Review Paperback Row S...

Its every page offers pleasure, the profound, joyful pleasure of watching a masterful writer at work." -Chicago Tribune "In Don't Save Anything . . . Kay Eldredge Salter assembles her late husband's bread-and-butter journalism-yet how delicious good bread and butter can be!" -Michael Dirda, The Washington Post One of the greatest writers of American sentences in our literary history, James Salter's acute and glimmering portrayals of charac...

Exciting and inviting cover refresh for paperback edition For fans of David Benioff's City of Thieves As author Cristina Garcia says, "To live in Berlin is to live among its ghosts. I set out to capture the city's fascinating incongruities." A wonderful and truly literary new novel A portrait of a city through multiple snapshots, a mosaic of contemporary Berlin and its legacies, a meditation on voice and mystery Author is a National Book Award...

National Book Award finalist Karen Bender returns with a short story collection that gives resonant voice to the deep anxieties and everyday traumas so many of us grapple with in 2018 The same publicity and marketing team that worked so hard in support of Joan Silber's Improvement and Margaret Wilkerson Sexton's A Kind of Freedom will be rallying in support of this new collection Bender is a writer whose sales track does not always reflect ho...

The Wish Child is a love letter of sorts to the city of Berlin, a love letter and a lament for what children in particular must endure to survive a war like WWII A widely appealing and accessible historical novel, this would be an excellent Costco Pennie's Pick or Target Club Pick title For fans of The Book Thief and its focus on the transformative power of language, The Wish Child offers a darker take on this theme, more concerned with the wa...

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...

Reading the essays in Anna Journey's elegant, haunting new collection, An Arrangement of Skin, is like cracking open a closet door and peering in to see a tight and private collection of oddities, secrets, and skeletons . . . illuminating even in their darkness." -The Boston Globe Anna Journey's lyrical and layered arrangement of essays dazzles with her reflections on our shifting selves-the many "skins" we inhabit in a life. An Arrangement ...

An NPR Best Book of 2017 "Shirk is a generous writer whose penchant for detail and poetic observation will surprise even the staunchest skeptic." -Juan Vidal, NPR's "Best Books of 2017" "Shirk writes with sincerity. In these stirring vignettes, she mixes historical accounts, interpretations, and fictionalized encounters to provide insight into her personal journey tracing the steps of American women who have sought out an alternative spiritu...

Unlike any other food writing you've read, Here Let Us Feast is a unique collection of excerpts from world literature concerned with eating and drinking, threaded together throughout by M.F.K. Fisher's unmatched voice and passion A warm, joyful and curious amalgam of food literature, history, memoir, and travel Reissued with a new introduction by beloved food writer Betty Fussell As much at home on the shelves of Cooking sections as in the S...

Voices was a project started by the author when he learned that he would soon lose his hearing and become completely deaf. This book is "a harvest and a storage" of the emotional and psychological responses to the human voice in song that Coleman sought to preserve for himself, and a wider meditation on why vocal music--particularly post-war popular music--is such an important part of our lives Voices explores the way we internalise others' vo...