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The seventh Counterpoint Robison reissue, after Tell Me , Oh! , An Amateur’s Guide to the Night , Why Did I Ever , One D.O.A., One On The Way , and 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 and encouraged
The New Order
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 how beloved she is, or how her stories punch above their weight and influence a generation of writers and students Praise from Librarians and Booksellers "I do not come by tears easily, but Karen E. Bender knows how to make me cry. This is due not only to the straightforward beauty of her writing, but to her way of so deftly turning her characters inside out. In just a few sentences, she lays them bare and reveals the unmistakable, universal loneliness of the human condition. Whether their fears are existential or literal, her people are so small inside, so vulnerable—it broke my heart as only the best books can. The New Order is a tenderizing, transformative read!" —Lauren Peugh, Powell's Books (Portland, OR)
Terrarium
Shortlisted for the Pacific Northwest Book Award «Urgent, unnerving and tightly packed short fiction that covers enough ground for a library of novels.» — The New York Times Book Review , Editors' Choice Valerie Trueblood's writing has been praised by The New York Times as «an exercise in literary restraint and extreme empathy.» Selected here are stories from her previous collections—finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award—alongside her newest collection, which lends this book its name. The new stories collected within Terrarium represent an exciting direction for the author: a condensing of narrative and, in some cases, a departure from it into another state of mind. It's hard to describe any of Trueblood's stories as «typical.» She does not write about people from a single class, or caste, or geographical area. She has not written a single story emblematic of her work. She does not write stories fantastical or eccentric. Ordinary life, her stories may be saying, is fantastical enough. She is more like Babel than Chekhov. In all her writing, it's clear that Trueblood believes that the short story can carry both the lightest and heaviest of loads. Terrarium highlights the achievement of simply living, the stories within often unresolved but in a state of continuation, expansion. Trueblood's stories aren't merely about their subjects, they're inside them.
The Secret Habit of Sorrow
The first story collection from acclaimed southern California writer Victoria Patterson since 2009's Drift Author an active and well-connected member of the California literary scene, and we expect strong event and festival appearances throughout the state and along the west coast Patterson's prose has a Denis Johnson re-filtered through Raymond Carver-vibe, along with the emotional depth and density of Elena Ferrante.
Black Swans
Following the wildly successful reception of Eve Babitz's novel, Sex and Rage , comes the reissue of her gorgeous story collection, Black Swans Eve Babitz's writing speaks to a whole new generation of readers, and is just as totemic a writer to young women today as Francesa Lia Block's Weetzie Bat was to the children of the 90s Essential summer reading choice, and the perfect Mother's Day gift for hip, trendy moms Cover/packaging will be just as iconic as Sex and Rage Extensive paid social media campaign and Instagram/Twitter influencer outreach $15k marketing and publicity budget Praise from Librarians and Booksellers: «Is there anyone cooler than Eve Babitz? Now, it's easy to be cool when you're jumping from party to party in the center of the party universe in your party years in THE party era, but what about when the party ends? Everyone gets sober or doesn't, everyone's fallen out of love with falling in love, money and malls have won out over peace and love, and AIDS erased those that made the parties worth attending—and yet, Eve's cool eye remains. Sure, these stories talk of Beverly Hills and surfing and sex and dinner parties where beautiful people revisit old loves—all told with Eve's signature flow and eye for the telling detail—but underneath the glamour, these stories are about loss, change, broken dreams, sobriety, a Los Angeles on fire, adjusting to life after years of oversaturation, and, most of all, tango. More than weather the down tides, she approaches these heavy changes with a flip of her 'Doris Day but punk' hair, a flash of her California smile as if to say, 'Hey c'est la vie, baby, what can you do?'» —Molly Moore, BookPeople (Austin, TX)
Watch With Me
This volume of six linked stories and the novella from which the book derives its title is set in Port William from 1908 to the Second World War. Here Wendell Berry introduces two of his more indelible and poignant characters, Ptolemy Proudfoot and his wife Miss Minnie, remarkable for the comic and affectionate range that—with the mastery of this consummate storyteller working at the height of his powers—here approaches the Shakespearean. Tol Proudfoot is huge, outsized, in the tradition of the mythic. The three-hundred-pound farmer, personally imposing and unkempt, is also the most graceful of presences, reserved and gallant toward his tiny wife, the ninety-pound schoolteacher. Their contrasts are humorous, of course, and recall the tall tales of rural Americana. In the novella Watch with Me , we are given a story of such depth, breadth, and importance it earns being listed as one of the most important short stories written in the American language during the twentieth century. "Wendell Berry writes with a good husbandman’s care and economy . . . His stories are filled with gentle humor." ― The New York Times Book Review «Berry is the master of earthy country living seen through the eyes of laconic farmers . . . He makes his stories shine with meaning and warmth.» ― The Christian Science Monitor «A small treasure of a book . . . part of a long line that descends from Chaucer to Katherine Mansfield to William Trevor.» ― Chicago Tribune
Women In Their Beds
“In these 35 stories, one struggles to find a sentence that is anything less than jewel-box perfect.” — The New York Times Book Review Gina Berriault is known for the complexity and compassion with which she weaves her characters, and her stories are such models of economy that they seem almost telepathic. In this reissue of her collected stories—twenty years after its first publication—with a new introduction by renowned author and devoted Berriault advocate Peter Orner—we see the deft hand of this well-loved master of the short story at its best.Berriault employs her vital sensibility—sometimes subtly ironic and sometimes achingly raw—to touch on the inevitability of suffering and the nature of individuality, daring to see into the essence of our predicaments. What moves us? What dictates our behavior? What alters us? Her writing is spare, evanescent, pulsing with life and shimmering with life's strange hope. Her stories illustrate the depth of her emotional understanding.“Half the women in the world are right now in bed, theirs or somebody else's, whether it's night or day, whether they want to be or not…” With Women in Their Beds, Berriault's prose—moving, honest, and wise—achieves a mastery of the short story form that was in evidence every step of her long career. She was a completely modern writer, blessed with an exquisite sense of the potency of words and the ability to create moments of empathy that are both disturbing and mysteriously amusing.
Aquaboogie
“ Aquaboogie is a love story in fragments . . . A book by a writer whose love for her characters infuses her work with the dignity and urgency they so clearly deserve.” — The New York Times Book Review Full of defiance and tenderness, Aquaboogie chronicles the triumphs and tragedies of the residents of Rio Seco. In “Aquaboogie,” art student Nacho finances his class out East by working as a janitor, subject to torment by his white coworkers. In “Back,” elderly Pashion sleeps wrapped around the body of her dying husband L. C., all the while recalling their 49 years of marriage and thinking about the sleeping pills she has secreted away for when life becomes unbearable. In “The Box,” Shawan carries her radio everywhere; since her best friend was gunned down, music is the only thing that can get her through the day. In these and other stories in this powerful collection, the author gives voice to those on the margins while demonstrating her great affection for her characters.
The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys
Dao Strom; With a New Preface by the Author; Introduction by Isabelle Thuy Pelaud
A striking collection of novellas, this new edition—now with an introduction by the authors—arrives when the Vietnamese diaspora of writers is a more visible one (Viet Nguyen, Ocean Vuong, Nguyen Phan Que Mai, Monique Truong, and more) Reissued in a year celebrating this diaspora with Ocean Vuong's new novel (PRH) and Nguyen Phan Que Mai's latest (Algonquin) Advance blurb expected from Rick Simonson of Elliott Bay Book Company (one of Dao's most ardent fans) Author lives in Portland and we will be doing local events in the Pacific Northwest in conjunction with diasporic women writers group, She Who Has No Master(s), White Noise Reading Series (Portland, OR), Mutter Courage Reading Series (Seattle, WA) Portland Book Festival, Litquake, Wordplay Bookseller Praise: «For all the anticipation of new titles that come with a season, there is also the pleasure in anticipating the return of a book that first came out thirteen years ago and then disappeared for reasons having nothing to do with the book's many merits. This most welcome reissue of four fictional pieces follows people in their early twenties finding their way into more fully adult lives, at least one in each story marked in some way by having come from Vietnam as a refugee. It brings a distinct narrative voice to affection and disaffection to the fore. It works subtly but powerfully, along with the other elements of nuance and knowing. We are very glad to see this book back.» —Rick Simonson, The Elliott Bay Book Company (Seattle, WA)
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