The Food of Love
The Easier Way to Breastfeed Your Baby
KATE EVANS

A refreshingly funny guide to breastfeeding packed with hilarious graphics, The Food of Love will entertain anyone who has ever wondered how it all works.

“Vibrant, exciting, funny—and based on up-to-date research.” —Sheila Kitzinger, author of The Complete Book of Pregnancy and Childbirth

SOFT SKULL PRESS | 978-1-59376-217-9 | Trade Paper | $16.95

Swallow the Ocean
A Memoir
LAURA M. FLYNN

Set in 1970s San Francisco, Swallow the Ocean is the heartbreaking true story of three young girls who find the strength to survive their mother’s slow spiral into schizophrenia.

“[A] heartbreaking page-turner.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“[A] beautifully written memoir . . . Poetic and masterful, this is a memoir you won’t soon forget.” —Edwidge Danticat, author of Brother, I’m Dying

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-461-2 | Trade Paper | $15.95

Aereality
On the World from Above
WILLIAM L. FOX

Fox turns the travelogue on its head by surveying the land from above while analyzing the people’s perceptions of aerial imagery from New York to Australia. As he traverses the sky in prop planes, helicopters, and hot air balloons, he is accompanied by a motley crew of geographers, anthropologists and artists, who all aim to know and experience the earth from the air.

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-429-2 | Cloth | $30.00

On Writers and Writing
JOHN GARDNER
INTRODUCTION BY CHARLES JOHNSON

In this provocative collection of essays and reviews, Gardner fearlessly examines the work of writers like Joyce Carol Oates and John Updike to define the core qualities of lasting fiction. Essential reading for anyone interested in American literature.

“For Gardner, fiction is real and earnest. The reader who takes it equally seriously will get much from this book.” —New York Times

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-494-0 | Trade Paper| $15.95

Leonard Woolf
A Biography
VICTORIA GLENDINNING

Award-winning biographer Victoria Glendinning presents a meticulously researched and compassionately rendered portrait of the “dark star” of Bloomsbury. Leonard Woolf is a shrewdly perceptive and lively biography of a man whose impact on society is far-reaching and who is owed long-overdue appreciation for his contributions.
“Comprehensive and eminently readable.” —New York Times Book Review

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-411-7 | Trade Paper | $16.95

Deeply Rooted
Unconventional Farmers in the Age of Agribusiness
LISA M. HAMILTON

Lisa M. Hamilton conducts an inquiry into three unconventional farmers in America whose experiences make the case that, to save our food system, we must bring farmers back to the table.

“The extraordinary farmers . . . in Deeply Rooted embody the future of American agriculture.” —Alice Waters

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-59376-180-6 | Cloth | $25.00

John Milton
A Hero for Our Time
DAVID HAWKES

Published to coincide with the 400th anniversary of his birth, the best John Milton biography in forty years closely examines Milton’s participation in the English civil war and his startlingly modern ideas about capitalism, love, and marriage, reminding us that human liberty and autonomy should never be taken for granted.

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-437-7 | Cloth | $28.00

Love All the People
The Essential Bill Hicks
BILL HICKS

“An inspired and inspiring truth teller, dangerous and brave and scary all at once.” —Richard Pryor

“Bill Hicks — blowtorch, excavator, truth-sayer, and brain specialist, like a reverend waving a gun around. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.” —Tom Waits

SOFT SKULL PRESS | 978-1-59376-201-8 | Trade Paper | $16.95