The Teachings of Don B.
Satires, Parodies, Fables, Illustrated Stories, and Plays of Donald Barthelme
DONALD BARTHELME; EDITED BY KIM HERZINGER; WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THOMAS PYNCHON

Sixty-three of Barthelme’s rare or previous uncollected shorter works—including satires, plays, and collages—have been assembled in this gleeful, melancholy, erudite, and wonderfully subversive volume. The Teachings of Don B. is a literary testament cum time bomb with the power to blast any reader into an altered state of consciousness.

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-59376-174-5| Trade Paper | $15.95

A New York Times Editor’s Choice pick, Andy Catlett is a seamless continuation of Berry’s Port William series.

“Andy Catlett is tender, graceful, and evocative . . . a creative summation. Berry is now over seventy years old, and Andy Catlett: Early Travels represents all the experience, artistry, and considerable skill that he commands.”—Eclectica

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-59376-164-6 | Trade Paper | $13.95

Morality Tale
A Novel
SYLVIA BROWNRIGG

"It is a sign of a remarkable talent when an author can write with the kind of unflinching honesty that Brownrigg brings to bear on this precise dissection of a marriage, and still make us laugh. From the rueful, cringing smile to the out and out guffaw, this book is shockingly funny. A tragic delight." —Ayelet Waldman

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-404-9 | Cloth | $24.00

Black Flies
A Novel
SHANNON BURKE

"Searing . . . Arresting." —Liesl Shillinger, New York Times Book Review

Black Flies is the story of paramedic Ollie Cross and his first year in the midst of New York City crack wars, unemployment, and neighborhoods burning to the ground as delinquent landlords cash in. A gripping novel from the ambulance-eye view of early '90s New York City.

SOFT SKULL PRESS | 978-1-59376-191-2 | Trade Paper Original | $14.95

“[Connell] knows how to make plots and what service to expect of them. He is committed to the idea that the business of the short story is to define human character.” —New Republic

“Connell is among the country’s foremost writers.” —Peter Matthiessen

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-59376-175-2 | Cloth | $27.00

A modern classic prison novel, an implicit indictment of the Guantanamo gulag, and a novel of fierce moral and descriptive clarity. Characterized as “one of the best . . . German novels to be published since the dawn of the new millennium” by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, “this excellent new German novel” (Playboy) eschews polemic in favor of acute psychological examination—“Dieckmann’s close focus pays off, like a blow to the head” (Publishers Weekly).

SOFT SKULL PRESS | 978-1-933368-54-2 | Trade Paper Original | $14.00