Flying to America
45 More Stories
DONALD BARTHELME
EDITED AND WITH A PREFACE BY KIM HERZINGER

Donald Barthelme was one of the most influential and inventive writers of the 20th century. In this volume of unpublished and previously uncollected stories, he transforms the absurd into the real in his usual epiphanic and engaging style. Delving into such themes as the perils of the unfulfilled existence and the relationships among politics, sex, art, and life, this collection will delight both old fans and new readers.

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-443-8 | Trade Paper | $15.95

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

Sixty-three of Barthelme’s rare or previously 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

Whitefoot
A Story from the Center of the World
WENDELL BERRY
ILLUSTRATED BY DAVIS TE SELLE

Wendell Berry offers the fable of Whitefoot, a mouse who lives at the edge of the woods, at what she believes to be the center of the world. Whitefoot’s great discovery of the universe around her, and her own ability to survive within it, is a lesson that’s sure to resonate with children and adults alike.

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-432-2 | Cloth | $22.00

Fight Scenes
GREG BOTTOMS
ILLUSTRATED BY DAVID POWELL

In an intricately linked series of short, poetic tales set in a 1983 suburb, Greg Bottoms portrays his life as one of two “at-risk” twelve-year-old boys as they learn how to be—and what it means to be—men. By turns funny, disquieting, and moving, Fight Scenes is an unsparing look at juvenile disaffection and the dark side of white, working-class masculinity.

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-59376-129-5 | Cloth | $20.00

The Springs of Affection
Stories of Dublin
MAEVE BRENNAN

A collection of short stories by one of The New Yorker’s most celebrated writers that embraces the breadth and sorrow of love across three Dublin families.

“Remarkable . . . Fiction of the highest order, controlled, wise, and fearless. Not many writers go this deep or far from home.” —The Nation

“Wide-ranging, savage, poignant . . . full of small miracles.” —New York Times Book Review

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-500-8 | Trade Paper | $15.95

Floodmarkers
NIC BROWN

Lystra, North Carolina. A fictional town full of very real people who survive the attack of Hurricane Hugo and then find their bearings in the aftermath—often in wild and hilarious ways.

“Nic Brown is the most talented new writer I’ve come across . . . Brown’s prose is beautiful and his empathy and insight into the human condition is breathtaking.” —Jonathan Ames

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-506-0 | Trade Paper | $14.95

The Delivery Room
A Novel
SYLVIA BROWNRIGG

In 1998, Serbian therapist Mira Braverman listens to her troubled patients in the safe haven of her London office. As the novel unfolds and she faces her own struggles, Mira discovers that she is not as distant from her patients’ pain as she might once have been. The Delivery Room is a compelling examination of the incomplete understandings between therapist and patient, and a meditation on the meaning of wars fought from a distance.

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-424-7 | Trade Paper | $14.95

Morality Tale
A Novel
SYLVIA BROWNRIGG

When the elusive but exciting Richard (an envelope salesman with a nice layperson’s line in Zen philosophies) meets the novel’s married narrator, he offers her a friendly escape from her own daunting domestic life. Told with honesty and wit, Morality Tale explores matrimony and the crucial truth that change is often the key to staying together.

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-481-0 | Trade Paper | $14.95

My Life at First Try
A Novel
MARK BUDMAN

In this semi-autobiographical debut novel, Mark Budman chronicles the life of Alex, a boy born in Siberia in 1950. Short chapters—sometimes hilarious, sometimes sobering—chronicle Alex’s life year by year as he matures, starts a family, gets a chance to leave the Soviet Union, and then goes on to discover the rhythms, disappointments, and small pleasures of suburban life in upstate New York.

“This blazingly fast and funny ‘semi-autobiographical’ novel follows a Russian man’s comically earnest pursuit of the American dream." —Publishers Weekly

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-400-1 | Cloth | $24.00