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Counterpoint Press Counterpoint Press is an independent author-driven publisher with offices in Berkeley, California and New York City, New York.

We are an author-driven publishing house that devotes all energy to the fresh, cutting-edge, and literary voices of our authors.

Arriving October 6th - preorder now! 📚📚📚This bold and genre-defying prose debut by prizewinning poet Kimberly M. Blaeser...
22/09/2026

Arriving October 6th - preorder now! 📚📚📚

This bold and genre-defying prose debut by prizewinning poet Kimberly M. Blaeser incorporates social, historical, and supernatural elements to create a collection that is both contemporary and timeless, communal and deeply intimate.

✨Longlisted for the National Book Foundation Award for Fiction ✨

RED ANTS is a National Book Award Longlist Finalist! We are beyond proud. Huge congratulations to Kimberly Blaeser ❤️ ✨️
17/09/2026

RED ANTS is a National Book Award Longlist Finalist! We are beyond proud. Huge congratulations to Kimberly Blaeser ❤️ ✨️

Happy paperback publication day to THE DEVIL'S CASTLE! THE DEVIL'S CASTLE delves into the forgotten history of eugenics ...
15/09/2026

Happy paperback publication day to THE DEVIL'S CASTLE!

THE DEVIL'S CASTLE delves into the forgotten history of eugenics and links it to present-day psychiatry to explain how we as a culture continue to get mind care so wrong. This gripping exploration traverses the spectrum of neurodiversity, from the devastating consequences of dehumanization to the transformative potential of understanding and acceptance.

🧠 "When the time comes, these words from Ms. Antonetta will merit consideration: 'Programs of euthanasia and sterilization don’t just live in the past, terrible but finished. Their aftershocks are terrible and here.'" — The Wall Street Journal

🧠 "THE DEVIL'S CASTLE is a sober­ing and dis­heart­en­ing—yet impor­tant—text. It shines a light onto a neglect­ed his­to­ry of World War II and onto a pop­u­la­tion that, too, has been neglect­ed and mistreated." — Jewish Book Council

🧠 "Poet and memoirist Antonetta offers a striking study of the evolution of modern psychiatry . . . Unique in its tone and its passion, this is an arresting and deeply resonant book." — Publishers Weekly (starred 🌟 review)

Since its original publication in 1977, THE UNSETTLING OF AMERICA has been recognized as a classic of American letters. ...
10/09/2026

Since its original publication in 1977, THE UNSETTLING OF AMERICA has been recognized as a classic of American letters. And it is perhaps more relevant than ever, as today’s agribusiness has wrested the cultural and spiritual disclipine of farming even farther from its cultural context and the families that practice it.

This 50th Anniversary edition will soon be followed by Wendell Berry's final work DISPATCHES FROM RURAL AMERICA, a landmark commentary on family, faith, community, and the threats of modernization. Look out for it on 10/27.

✨ COVER ANNOUNCEMENT ✨ We're thrilled to share the cover of Danny Ramadan's forthcoming novel A SALTWATER REQUIEM, desig...
09/09/2026

✨ COVER ANNOUNCEMENT ✨ We're thrilled to share the cover of Danny Ramadan's forthcoming novel A SALTWATER REQUIEM, designed by Victoria Maxfield with art direction by Nicole Caputo!

A SALTWATER REQUIEM goes on sale 4/6 and is available to preorder now!

About the book 📚
Family patriarch Tanios lords over his successful farm as head of the wealthiest family in Saidnaya. Their downfall begins on the day of the extravagant wedding of his eldest son, Elias, to the town beauty, Hind, when Elias is forcibly conscripted by the Ottoman army for the Hijaz Railway project. Clinging to the hope of his son’s return, Tanios struggles to keep his fortunes afloat. As the horrors of the Ottoman occupation draw closer and closer to their farm, the family is forced to abandon their beloved homeland, willing to leave everything behind to build a better life.

Embarking on this reluctant journey, which will take them first to France and then to England, their tensions, secrets, and agendas bubble up from below the surface. Matriarch Nazira endures her husband’s descent into alcoholism while attempting to keep up appearances in the face of the family’s waning influence. Unmarried and considered an old maid, eldest daughter Mariam struggles with issues of identity. A secret affair between middle son Emile and one of the loyal servants threatens to explode the already fractured family ties. And youngest son, Joseph, discovers revelatory love with a man in London. Pushed to the brink during years of exile and heartbreak, the family decides to set out for the glittering promise of America. To secure their future, they book passage on the maiden voyage of an unsinkable vessel known as the Titanic.

Inspired by the actual passenger manifest for the RMS Titanic and told from multiple points of view, A SALTWATER REQUIEM spans a village in Saidnaya, the docks of Marseilles, the streets of London, and the deck of a doomed ocean liner, blending folklore and intergenerational memory to conjure a moving and universal story, the quest for a place to call home.

🌊 COVER ANNOUNCEMENT 🌊 We're excited to share the cover of Danny Ramadan's forthcoming novel A SALTWATER REQUIEM, design...
09/09/2026

🌊 COVER ANNOUNCEMENT 🌊 We're excited to share the cover of Danny Ramadan's forthcoming novel A SALTWATER REQUIEM, designed by Victoria Maxfield with art direction by Nicole Caputo!

A SALTWATER REQUIEM will hit bookstores on 4/6 and is available to preorder now!

About the book 📚
Family patriarch Tanios lords over his successful farm as head of the wealthiest family in Saidnaya. Their downfall begins on the day of the extravagant wedding of his eldest son, Elias, to the town beauty, Hind, when Elias is forcibly conscripted by the Ottoman army for the Hijaz Railway project. Clinging to the hope of his son’s return, Tanios struggles to keep his fortunes afloat. As the horrors of the Ottoman occupation draw closer and closer to their farm, the family is forced to abandon their beloved homeland, willing to leave everything behind to build a better life.

Embarking on this reluctant journey, which will take them first to France and then to England, their tensions, secrets, and agendas bubble up from below the surface. Matriarch Nazira endures her husband’s descent into alcoholism while attempting to keep up appearances in the face of the family’s waning influence. Unmarried and considered an old maid, eldest daughter Mariam struggles with issues of identity. A secret affair between middle son Emile and one of the loyal servants threatens to explode the already fractured family ties. And youngest son, Joseph, discovers revelatory love with a man in London. Pushed to the brink during years of exile and heartbreak, the family decides to set out for the glittering promise of America. To secure their future, they book passage on the maiden voyage of an unsinkable vessel known as the Titanic.

Inspired by the actual passenger manifest for the RMS Titanic and told from multiple points of view, A SALTWATER REQUIEM spans a village in Saidnaya, the docks of Marseilles, the streets of London, and the deck of a doomed ocean liner, blending folklore and intergenerational memory to conjure a moving and universal story, the quest for a place to call home.

🌊 COVER ANNOUNCEMENT 🌊 We're excited to share the cover of Genki Ferguson's forthcoming novel THE LOVE AN ABALONE FEELS ...
04/09/2026

🌊 COVER ANNOUNCEMENT 🌊 We're excited to share the cover of Genki Ferguson's forthcoming novel THE LOVE AN ABALONE FEELS FOR THE SEA, designed by Nicole Caputo!

This one hits bookstores on 3/2 and is available to preorder now.

About the book 📚
In a remote Japanese fishing village, a grief-stricken young boy searches for answers after his sister’s mysterious drowning—only to fall in love, years later, with a woman who may hold the secret of her final tragic dive.

Haunting and buoyant, THE LOVE AN ABALONE FEELS FOR THE SEA is situated within the world of Japan’s traditional freedivers, or Amas, who support the local economy by hunting abalone and other shellfish—reaching depths of up to 65 feet without any scuba gear—a practice that stretches back over 2,000 years. In this treacherous line of work, breath and timing is everything, and it is crucial to train the lungs from a young age. But a determined young woman named Nagisa joins the ama as a teen, and during one fateful dive, she doesn’t return to the surface. Only a mysterious pile of wakame (seaweed) is left behind in her recovered basket.

Ren Ioka, Nagisa’s seventeen-year-old brother, finds himself unmoored by grief and uncertainty. After discovering an unsent love letter written by his sister years earlier, Ren becomes convinced that this confession holds the secret behind her inexplicable final dive. While retracing his sister’s hidden love, Ren meets Eiko, an inscrutable ama who dove with Nagisa. As Ren gradually uncovers the truth behind his sister’s confession, he finds himself falling for Eiko, not realizing that she’s harboring a secret herself.

Joan Silber's MERCY is available now in paperback!Following a bold cast of characters across decades, and set against th...
03/09/2026

Joan Silber's MERCY is available now in paperback!

Following a bold cast of characters across decades, and set against the changing social and sexual mores from the 1970s onward, MERCY is Silber’s most ambitious and expansive novel yet, proving once again how we are all connected in mysterious and often unknown ways.

🌟 Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize
🌟 A TIME Best Book of the Year
🌟 An Amazon Books Best Book of the Month

✨ "Joan Silber is one of America’s most underappreciated literary treasures, and she just keeps getting better." — NPR

✨ "Exhilarating . . . MERCY delivers voltage, tang and playfulness through a steady, probing interiority." — Washington Post

✨ "Joan Silber’s Mercy is a touching study of a man who leaves a friend for dead, then follows the way one decision can haunt a lifetime." — Chicago Tribune

✨ "A winning exploration of friendship and betrayal . . . In case you only read the first paragraph of this review, I’ll start with the takeaway: If you have never read Joan Silber, it is time you did." — The Boston Globe

Counterpoint bids farewell to a beloved author, poet, and farmer. His longtime editor and friend Jack Shoemaker says, "W...
01/09/2026

Counterpoint bids farewell to a beloved author, poet, and farmer.

His longtime editor and friend Jack Shoemaker says, "Wendell Berry has been long occupied by the art of freedom and the idea of freedom in community. He was a writer deeply involved in the complex matters of ethics and consequence. No one dealt more carefully with the arts of Christian love and hope and family. Living in our time, he constantly saw a need to ask, ‘Sure we can do that, but should we? What do we do with the consequences?’ A remarkable poet, he was also one of the greatest living masters of American prose. His style advances the work of Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, and Crane, listens to Twain and admires Stegner, and ignores almost entirely Hemingway and his modernist cohorts."

Publisher Alyson Forbes says, “In a world that feels under siege, Wendell's writing asks us to slow down, to focus on community, and to think seriously about what we owe each other as fellow humans. Few writers have held so steadily to a single, clear-eyed vision across decades. We are grateful that we were able to help carry his words to readers.”

Our deepest condolences are with the Berry family.

🫖 COVER ANNOUNCEMENT 🫖 We're excited to share the cover of 's THE KETTLE, designed by Victoria Maxfield with art directi...
28/08/2026

🫖 COVER ANNOUNCEMENT 🫖 We're excited to share the cover of 's THE KETTLE, designed by Victoria Maxfield with art direction by Nicole Caputo!

THE KETTLE will be available in bookstores on 3/16 and you can preorder your copy now!

About the book 📚
A gripping Western about two brothers on a westward journey of revenge, cutting a scorched path across the winter frontier—until the graves they’re digging begin to look like their own

Arriving back on their Ohio farm after a trip, brothers Walter and Jed find their homestead torched and ruined, their Ma and Pa and sister Sweet Mary burnt to a crisp. Their tremendous grief immediately turns to violence: they scoop up the ashy remains of their family in one of the only objects left on the farm, a tin kettle. Attaching the kettle to their horses, they head west to pick up the path of Spring Frog and Frank Booth, the leaders of a gang they know to be the cause of their family’s great ruin.

What follows is an odyssey of the body and the soul. The violent path they carve across the west will leave no one untouched, no bridge not burned. Alongside the beauty of the landscape in winter is the relentless grim reaper of their revenge. Each new location brings them new opportunities to amend their ways, to seek a path different from the vengeful road they are on, and, each time the brothers turn away, to play out their vicious hand.

Elwood Reid’s first novel in over a decade is a bold and beautiful tale of the old west and family secrets, a dazzling document of violence and history and human nature.

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