Counterpoint Press

21/03/2025

Loved seeing PASSING THROUGH A PRAIRIE COUNTRY included on this list of the best covers of 2025 (so far) by Book Riot!

From the ultimate horse girl shirt to a can of eyeballs, feast upon some of the best book covers of 2025 so far.

19/03/2025

Congratulations to Randall K. Wilson for being awarded The New York Historical Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize for his biography of America's first national park, A PLACE CALLED YELLOWSTONE! 🌄

The New York Historical honor goes to Randall K. Wilson, whose “A Place Called Yellowstone” chronicles a landscape “capable of bridging ideological divides.”

18/03/2025

Happy publication day to Dennis E. Staples' PASSING THROUGH A PRAIRIE COUNTRY! 🖤

This darkly humorous thriller by Ojibwe writer Dennis E. Staples tells of the ghosts that haunt the temples of excess we call casinos, and the people caught in their high-stakes, low-odds web.

✨ “Dennis E. Staples’ blend of suspense, comedy, and thrills is perfect for fans of Reservation Dogs and Stephen Graham Jones.” — People

✨ “A quick and unique read sure to appeal to thriller fans who also enjoy gothic horror.” — Booklist

14/03/2025

Kenosha friends! Don't miss Dennis Staples' upcoming event at Blue House Books on 3/20 for his forthcoming novel PASSING THROUGH A PRAIRIE COUNTRY!

RSVP here:

Kenosha's only full-service independent bookstore

11/03/2025

Thrilled to share that THE WORDS OF DR. L by Karen E. Bender received a starred ⭐ review from Kirkus Reviews! They praise the stories as "highly original" and that they "speak to the challenges of being human in the 21st century."

Check out the full review here:

A collection of stories that artfully reframe issues including parenting, aging, illness, and life during the Covid-19 pandemic.

10/03/2025

Some joyful snaps from Deja Vu Prem’s BEYOND THE MOUNTAINS event with and .lb! Thanks to all who attended! 📚🫶🏻

10/03/2025

Join us for a night of dancing and q***r joy as we celebrate the release of Milo Todd's THE LILAC PEOPLE, in partnership with All She Wrote Books and Crystal Ballroom at Somerville Theatre! 🏳️‍⚧️

RSVP here now: https://www.crystalballroomboston.com/events/a-night-at-the-eldorado/

04/03/2025

Happy paperback pub day to THUNDER SONG by Sasha LaPointe!

From the author of the award-winning memoir RED PAINT, THUNDER SONG is a razor-sharp, clear-eyed collection of essays on what it means to be a proudly q***r indigenous woman in the United States today.

⭐ Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence ⭐
✨ "Masterful and wise." — People
✨ "As loud and splitting as a punk song." — NYLON
✨ "A ballad against amnesia, and a call to action for healing, for decolonization, for hope." — ELLE

25/02/2025

Happy publication day to Thomas Kohnstamm’s SUPERSONIC! 🎉

When PTA president Sami Hasegawa-Stalworth petitions to rename a Seattle elementary school after her late grandmother, she ignites a battle over the school’s future and the history of its surrounding neighborhood. SUPERSONIC launches readers into a kaleidoscopic tale of the generations of interrelated families who breathed life into that small, hilltop community.

By exploring the converging and often clashing personalities that make up the dynamic soul of a place, SUPERSONIC illuminates themes of identity, displacement, destruction, and reinvention that give rise to all great American cities.

✨ “Kohnstamm’s remarkable achievement is to so effectively address race, class, culture, identity, and power in such a compelling, entertaining read.” — Booklist (starred review)

✨ “Readers shouldn’t miss Kohnstamm’s heartbreaking saga.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

✨“The Great Seattle novel has arrived.” —Ed Park, author of SAME BED DIFFERENT DREAMS

20/02/2025

Thrilled to have four of our authors on the longlist! 🏜️ Congratulations, , , , and .ervin!

Check out the full list at the link in our bio 🔗

19/02/2025

Huge congrats to for being named a finalist for the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction for OLIVE DAYS! 🥳🫒

19/02/2025

🏰 COVER ANNOUNCEMENT 🏰 We're excited to share the jacket for Susanne Paola Antonetta's forthcoming book THE DEVIL'S CASTLE, designed by Victoria Maxfield with art direction by Nicole Caputo.

THE DEVIL'S CASTLE will hit bookstores officially on 9/23/25, but you can preorder your copy now!

About the book:
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

In THE DEVIL'S CASTLE, Susanne Paola Antonetta weaves a haunting narrative that confronts the darkest chapters of psychiatric history while offering a bold vision for the future of mental health care. In 1939, the eugenics movement growing throughout the West did its worst in N**i Germany. Through the Aktion T4 euthanasia program, five asylums and an abandoned jail were transformed into gas chambers. Tens of thousands of lives—predominantly adults with neuropsychiatric conditions—were extinguished in those structures, ultimately paving the way for the horrors of the Holocaust.

Interlacing her experiences of psychosis with the complex history of psychiatry, Antonetta sheds light on the intersections of madness and societal perceptions of mental difference. She brings to life the stories of Paul Schreber and Dorothea Buck, two historical figures who act as models for mind care and acceptance.

This gripping exploration traverses the spectrum of neurodiversity, from the devastating consequences of dehumanization to the transformative potential of understanding and acceptance. With THE DEVIL'S CASTLE, Antonetta not only unearths the failures of our past, but also envisions a more compassionate, enlightened approach to consciousness and mental health care. This is a story of tragedy, resilience, and hope—a rallying cry for change that dares to challenge the limits of how we define and support the human mind.

12/02/2025

🌆 COVER ANNOUNCEMENT 🌆 Today we share the cover of Joan Silber's new novel, MERCY, designed by Robin Bilardello with art direction by Nicole Caputo!

MERCY goes on sale 9/2/25 and is available to preorder now.

About the book:
The rich and nuanced story of a moment of fear and abandonment that reverberates across decades and changes the course of many lives, by beloved PEN/Faulkner and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Joan Silber.

In the gritty East Village of 1970s New York, Ivan and his best friend, Eddie, a popular local bartender, are dabbling in drugs following a short tour of Europe. One night, as Ivan experiments with he**in with Eddie, things go horribly wrong. Ivan rushes Eddie to a crowded local ER and, believing his friend is about to die, leaves him there.

This one act of abandonment haunts Ivan his entire life. He keeps this secret from his friends and later his family, forever searching for mercy from “the remorse that never dies.” Ivan’s decision also ripples across time through an extended community, affecting a host of other people unknowingly connected to that night.

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.

11/02/2025

Happy paperback publication day to Rick Bass Author 's WITH EVERY GREAT BREATH! 🌄

For acclaimed writer and environmental activist Rick Bass, it can be wearying to dwell relentlessly upon the broken, the fragmented, the dead and dying and doomed to extinction. Activism is a necessary part of the environmental movement, but so is the time-honored celebration of the beauty that inspires us.

Spanning his storied career, these new and selected essays attempt to take a brief step to the side, away from lamentation and prescription, to inhabit, as deeply as possible, the greater depths of the beauty in each moment. WITH EVERY GREAT BREATH ranges from the extremely local—a long-form essay about the community affected by the largest Superfund site in U.S. history, in Libby, Montana—to the far-flung: the Galápagos, Namibia, and Alaska. Throughout, Bass offers a portrait of our planet that is always alert to its wonders, even in the face of environmental crisis.

🌿 Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award

🌿 "Amiable tales from a natural-born storyteller . . . Readers will enjoy dipping in and out of thoughtful, heartfelt essays oozing with sentiment and affability." — Kirkus Reviews

07/02/2025

🔥 COVER ANNOUNCEMENT 🔥 We are thrilled to share the cover of Victor Suthammanont's forthcoming novel HOLLOW SPACES! Designed by Robin Bilardello with art direction by Nicole Caputo.

This one hits bookstores on 8.5.25 and is available to preorder now!

About the book:
The sole Asian American partner at a prestigious law firm sees his professional and personal life demolished when he is put on trial for murder. Three decades later, his children reunite to uncover the truth and try to salvage what remains of their family

Thirty years ago, John Lo, the only Asian American partner at a prestigious New York City law firm, was acquitted of the murder of an employee he was having an affair with. The repercussions of that long-ago event still haunt his adult children. Brennan, a lawyer following in her father’s footsteps in more ways than one, has always maintained that the trial got it right. Hunter, a disgruntled war correspondent whose similarities to his father run more than skin-deep, believes their father got away with murder. Their convictions have pushed them apart. Now, spurred on by their mother’s failing health, the estranged siblings decide to reconcile their differences by reinvestigating the murder to come to a definitive conclusion, and, in the process, salvage what’s left of their fragmented family.

Told in a dual timeline that moves between John’s perspective thirty years prior and Brennan and Hunter’s present-day investigation, HOLLOW SPACES is a moving portrait of a flawed man’s shocking fall from grace and a gripping exploration of race in corporate America, filial loyalty, ambition, and the fallout of a sensational trial for those caught in its wake.

06/02/2025

“I don’t want to call it a history of Seattle, I wanted to do more of an updated creation myth for the city. So many people that move here, they know about grunge or whatever. But it’s not a really well-defined place. It’s a young city on the edge of the world.” —Author Thomas Kohnstamm on his forthcoming novel SUPERSONIC via The Seattle Times

Local author Thomas Kohnstamm's new book, "Supersonic," is an intergenerational story that takes place in Seattle in the 19th century, the 1970s and the 2010s.

06/02/2025

Early praise is rolling in for THE MIGRANT RAIN FALLS IN REVERSE! calls it "Inventive. . . [Nguyen] nimbly transports readers to a blurry past and immerses them in the biographical ambiguities of life as a refugee."

New Quarterly editor Nguyen (Lived Refuge) reflects on his father’s life and his own experiences as a Vietnam War refugee in thi...

03/02/2025

Only 3 more weeks until SUPERSONIC hits bookstores! Join for these upcoming launch events to celebrate 📚✨