Counterpoint Press

24/10/2025

A PLACE CALLED YELLOWSTONE is on sale now in paperback! 🌄

Winner of the The New York Historical Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize, A PLACE CALLED YELLOWSTONE explores how Yellowstone’s remote Western landscape became a symbol of our country—and an integral part of our understanding of the natural world.

🥾 "Wilson’s talent as a storyteller shines through in turning dry bureaucratic bumbling and crony corruption into a focus on individual exploits and entertaining tales. It makes for great reading." — Los Angeles Times

🥾 "A capably drawn portrait of an iconic American place that remains of world significance." — Kirkus Reviews

🥾 "Tensions will always exist between the tourism industry and the conservation movement over Yellowstone's precious resources, but Wilson’s account shows an unfolding awareness and sensitivity on both sides to the treasures that lie within those 2.2 million acres." — Booklist

23/10/2025

Don't miss author Randall K. Wilson on 10/29 at Four Seasons Books for the paperback launch of his Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize-winning book A PLACE CALLED YELLOWSTONE! 🌄

✨ "A capably drawn portrait of an iconic American place." — Kirkus Reviews

October 29 at 6 PM The Byrd Center for Congressional History & Education Presented by Four Seasons Books Join us for the official book launch of A Place Called Yellowstone: The Epic History of the...

22/10/2025

✨ COVER ANNOUNCEMENT ✨ We're thrilled to share the jacket of Emily Rapp Black's forthcoming collection I WOULD DIE IF I WERE YOU, designed by Nicole Caputo!

I WOULD DIE IF I WERE YOU will hit bookstores in May 2026 and is available to preorder now!

About the book:
For her entire life, celebrated memoirist Emily Rapp Black has been answering awkward questions in elevators: What’s wrong with you? What happened to your body? And, in the case of her son’s terminal illness and death, she’s been told more times than she can count: “I would die if I were you.”

Black rejects the idea of easy pity. Learning how to reframe some of the most difficult experiences a person can live through, alchemizing pain into truth and meaning, she discovered, is its own kind of terrible beauty. Part of the human project is to experience grief and loss, and nobody gets out alive, and no writer—or person—survives anything alone. We need empathy, and for that we need community, and we need stories told within them.

As someone who writes and teaches books about loss and grief, two very loaded and universal subjects, Black wanted to write a book that would empower readers with “conversation stopping” stories (she lose her leg, her child died, in her case) to tell their stories in a way that can be salvific for those who may have been forced to live a similar story. Based on two decades of teaching a wide range of students with diverse and difficult experiences, I WOULD DIE IF I WERE YOU is designed to help creative people approach their “hard’ stories in a way that feels joyful, redemptive, and meaningful.

There’s an old saying that when a character is put under extreme duress or pressure, their true character emerges. Black believes this is the same for people, and that writers who have these often extraordinary experiences needed new strategies to tell the stories, those that liberate them from the “poor sad person with a poor sad story” assumption.

21/10/2025

HOLLOW SPACES by Victor Suthammanont was named one of the best crime novels of the year (so far) by The New York Times!

✨ "Suthammanont unspools [the mystery] with gorgeous precision. The heart of HOLLOW SPACES lies in the way children repeat their parents’ mistakes — and the not-so-casual racism in privileged spaces."—Sarah Weinman,

Check out the full list here: https://buff.ly/d5jRryF

21/10/2025

Tonight! Susan Straight will be in conversation with fellow Counterpoint author Vanessa Hua about her new book SACRAMENT Litquake! 7pm!

Details here: https://www.litquake.org/2025-schedule

20/10/2025

Join Susan Straight on tour to celebrate the release of her new novel SACRAMENT! 📚

From National Book Award finalist Susan Straight, SACRAMENT is a captivating new novel about a group of nurses fighting through the first year of a pandemic and the beloved California community they will risk their lives to protect.

✨ "Told in alternating points of view, the narrative captures the heroism and sacrifice of healthcare workers during the pandemic, and is shot through with rich depictions of Southern California’s landscape. . . It’s a vibrant drama."— Publishers Weekly

16/10/2025

Did you know that there's a new Wendell Berry novel available now? 📚

In the newest novel in the Port William series, MARCE CATLETT, Wendell Berry’s beloved protagonist Andy Catlett tells the inspiring story of his grandfather, Marce Catlett, to his own children and grandchildren, and gives them a key to their place on the settled land they all love.

This moving story is a testament to the goodwill that lives within the human heart and a stirring reminder that standing up for what we believe in is always a cause worth fighting for.

✨ "Wendell Berry returns to his beloved Port William, offering a kind of benediction full of longing for a former life threaded with wonder at its beauty and its humble persistence."—
Shelf Awareness

✨ "In granular, Melville-esque depictions of the process by which to***co was once cultivated, Berry crafts a paean to a distant way of life. The author’s fans will love this."— Publishers Weekly

✨ "Vintage Berry, elegiac and elegant, with a profound sense of all that has been lost." — Kirkus Reviews

15/10/2025

We are all deeply saddened by the news of Counterpoint author Susan Griffin’s passing.

Susan authored over twenty-two books during her life, including WOMAN AND NATURE, widely considered a classic of environmental writing that helped inspire the ecofeminist movement.

Head to the 🔗 in our bio to read the obituary.

15/10/2025

We are all deeply saddened by the news of Counterpoint author Susan Griffin's passing.

Susan authored over twenty-two books during her life, including WOMAN AND NATURE, widely considered a classic of environmental writing that helped inspire the ecofeminist movement. https://buff.ly/CZ8sxHp

With books like “Woman and Nature,” she pioneered a unique form of creative nonfiction, linking violence against women to the ravaging of the environment.

10/10/2025

🌲 COVER ANNOUNCEMENT 🌲 Dane Bahr fans can rejoice! We're here to share the cover of his forthcoming novel THE DEAD RINGER, designed by Victoria Maxfield with art direction by Nicole Caputo!

THE DEAD RINGER hits bookstores on April 21, 2026 and is available to preorder now 📚

About the book:
This haunting Western story features a man brought back from the dead to exact revenge upon those who have wronged him, only to discover that the world is capable of good—from the author of THE HOUSEBOAT and STAG.

Montana, 1935. Bludgeoned and buried alive by his bank-robbing partner and half brother, Benjamin Kilt should have been a co**se. But now very much on this side of heaven, Kilt’s quest for revenge will be unlike anything the West has ever seen.

Kilt is joined on his journey by Bonnie, a thirteen-year-old Indigenous girl he somewhat reluctantly rescues from her abusive “keeper.” It is through Bonnie’s recollections in old age of Kilt’s thorny quest for justice that Dane Bahr’s masterful tale unwinds, showcasing the tragic, complicated history of the two brothers and leading to a showdown at the very ranch where they were raised.

For readers of Charles Portis, Elmore Leonard, and Annie Proulx, THE DEAD RINGER explores the slippery justification of questionable deeds done for honorable ends, a bold and haunting novel featuring a man brought back from the dead to exact revenge, only to discover that the world is capable of good no matter how tragic the end may be.

08/10/2025

Thank you to for the support! New Yorkers, head over and grab your copy of STATUES IN A GARDEN from them now!📚

“I discovered an author who is going to be keeping me company for some time to come: Isabel Colegate. These works are small and mighty—clean, elegant prose, impeccable character delineation and depiction of interpersonal relationships, engaging plots and occasional surprising twists. My new comfort read, and couldn’t we all use that in the months to come?” —Miriam Chotiner-Gardner,

07/10/2025

Happy publication to Kay Chronister's THIN PLACES and THE BOG WIFE in paperback! Just in time to add to your spooky season TBR...🎃

✨ “Chronister’s writing is beautiful, and her supernatural and atmospheric stories about lighthouse keepers, composers in remote villages, and swamp hoteliers have a little bit of Ghibli whimsy in places. But there is a clinging dread and mystery in these stories that will stay with you.” — Literary Hub