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✨APPLY NOW ✨ It’s been a minute since we’ve posted about our partner program! Do you love being considered the literary tastemaker of your friend group? Do you like sharing your hot takes online? Does the thought of reading a book before anyone else excite you? If you responded “yes” to all of those questions, we want you on our partner list! 📚 Hit the 🔗 in our bio to apply now before our next email goes out this Friday. Check out the FAQ & let us know if you have any questions! #bookstagram #partnerprogram #catapultbooks #counterpoint #softskullpress by @counterpointpress
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7 months ago
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Milkweed Books & Counterpoint Press present Kimberly Blaeser and her new short story collection, RED ANTS.⁠ ⁠ RED ANTS is a bold and genre-defying prose debut by a prizewinning poet that incorporates social, historical, and supernatural elements to create a collection that is both contemporary and timeless, communal and deeply intimate.⁠ ⁠ This event is free and open to the public. RSVP at the link in bio! by @counterpointpress
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18 hours ago
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On sale today! 📚 Happy book birthday to GHOST BARN by John Verdon and DOG’S DAY by Matthew J. Prigge! #newbooktuesday #bookcommunity #newbookrelease The wilder-than-fiction true story behind the sensational bank heist immortalized in the 1975 film Dog Day Afternoon. ✨ “An absorbing breakdown of a New York tragedy.” — @chicagotribune ✨ “An unflinching look at queerness, love, trauma, and abuse that a two-hour movie could never fully capture.” — @gaylesbianreview ✨ “Captivating . . . Written in a delightfully readable narrative style . . . Wojtowicz has long been a figure of fascination in our culture, and Matthew J. Prigge never settles for the simple as he carefully crafts the complexities of this complicated man.” — @chicagorevbooks Retired NYPD detective Dave Gurney becomes ensnared in a case of murderous political intrigue tearing apart a once bucolic Upstate New York town. 👻 “Verdon constructs an intricate, surprising mystery without sacrificing an ounce of characterization. This swan song cements Gurney’s place in the PI hall of fame.” — @publisherswkly (starred 🌟 review) 👻 “Verdon is after something radically different . . . with an axe murder and an explosion loud enough to rattle the pages.” — @ala_booklist #johnverdon by @counterpointpress
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Join us this weekend at @bkbookfest! 📚 📚 📚 Don't miss panels with @sarahazizawrites, @stoneb1tch, and @hafeezlakhani — more details available at the 🔗 in our bio. #brooklynbookfestival by @counterpointpress
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5 days ago
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And another one! Proud to appear at Next Page in Frisco, CO on Saturday, 10/10! If you’re in the mountains (and why wouldn’t you be??), come hang out. I’ll be readin’ and talkin’ and signin’ (and probably sippin’, so who knows what I’ll say). It’ll be a good time, though! And East Coasters, stay tuned: We’re cooking up something for DC during peak spooky season. More to come! #book #debut #frisco #author #horror taken in Frisco, Colorado by @counterpointpress
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7 days ago
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Arriving October 6th - preorder now! 📚📚📚 This bold and genre-defying prose debut by prizewinning poet @kblaeser8 incorporates social, historical, and supernatural elements to create a collection that is both contemporary and timeless, communal and deeply intimate. ✨Longlisted for the @nationalbookfoundation Award for Fiction ✨ #kimberlyblaeser #indigenous #anishinaabe #indigenousauthors by @counterpointpress
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8 days ago
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Get ready for spooky season with this new mystery thriller 🚔👻 (releasing September 29) Following a series of murders which the local police ignore, David Gurney investigates for himself. Can he ignore what’s happening and let a murderer run amok, or will he dive into the darkness, giving in to his obsessive need to solve the unsolvable… (while technically part of a series, this book can be read and enjoyed as a standalone) Thank you for the publisher @counterpointpress for sending me this finished copy! #thrillerbooks #mysterybooks #newrelease #bookrecommendations by @counterpointpress
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9 days ago
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RED ANTS is a National Book Award Longlist Finalist! We are beyond proud. Huge congratulations to @kblaeser8 ❤️ ✨️ by @counterpointpress
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13 days ago
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Happy paperback publication day to @madsusanne's 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.'" — @wsj 🧠 "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." — @jewishbookcouncil 🧠 "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." — @publisherswkly (starred 🌟 review) by @counterpointpress
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16 days ago
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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. #wendellberry by @counterpointpress
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21 days ago
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As the release date for RED ANTS creeps closer, here's an opportunity to preorder for 25% off at @barnesandnoble ! (Yes, if you're a Rewards and Premium Member you get an extra 10% off that.) I'm told healthy preorder numbers will get the book carried in more stores, so if you haven't preordered yet, here's your chance at a great deal. The discount is good today, September 9th, through Friday, September 11th. @counterpointpress Share with your peeps, buy early Christmas presents, & support Indigenous literature. by @counterpointpress
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21 days ago
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🌊 COVER ANNOUNCEMENT 🌊 We're excited to share the cover of @thedannyramadan's forthcoming novel A SALTWATER REQUIEM, designed by vmaxfield with art direction by @nlcaputo! 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. #coverreveal #bookstagram #newbook #historicalfiction #bookclub by @counterpointpress
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