Praised by the Arizona Republic as “defiantly unclassifiable,” Barthelme was one of the most influential and inventive writers of the twentieth century. This new collection presents all of his previously unpublished and uncollected short fiction and is sure to entertain fans and new readers alike.

“The delight he offers readers is beyond question; his individuality is unmatched.” —Los Angeles Times

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-59376-172-1 | Cloth | $26.00

Not-Knowing amounts to the posthumous manifesto of one of our premier literary modernists. Here are Barthelme’s thoughts on writing (his own and others); his observations on art, architecture, film, and city life; interviews, including two never previously published; and meditations on everything from Superman III to the art of rendering “Melancholy Baby” on jazz banjolele.

“The delight he offers readers is beyond question; his individuality is unmatched.” —Los Angeles Times

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-59376-173-8 | Trade Paper | $15.95

Coming of Age at the End of History
CAMILLE DE TOLEDO

Brash twenty-something author Toledo asks what it is, exactly, his generation is protesting against and contemplates how revolt against Western capitalistic values has been neutralized since the time of Francis Fukuyama’s landmark 1989 article “The End of History.”

“The portrait of a generation who grew up after the fall of the Berlin Wall into an anti-utopian world.” —Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

SOFT SKULL | 978-1-59376-197-4 | Trade Paper | $14.95

This collection of essays from National Book Critics Circle Lifetime Achievement Award winner Leslie Fiedler reveals a powerful mind critiquing whole aspects of culture and uncovering lessons therein that remain timely today.

“No other student of the American novel has such fascinating and on the whole right things to say.” —Washington Post

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-59376-188-2 | Cloth | $26.00

In Back on the Fire, Snyders essays offer his reminiscences on a wide range of topics, from art in Paris to logging on the American West Coast. Throughout the work he gives a powerful voice to nature, whose protests often get lost amid the human din.

“It’s hard to argue with his conclusions—that we must learn to respect nature and live within it rather than just exploit it.” —Publishers Weekly

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-59376-163-9 | Trade Paper | $14.95

Adios Amigos
Tales of Sustenance and Purification in the American West
PAGE STEGNER

In this energetic and often uproarious collection of essays, Stegner threads together natural history, conservation polemic, ecology, and wilderness adventures on a number of the West’s major white-water rivers. Rich in vivid detail, Adios Amigos combines the first explorations by historical figures, Stegner’s own experiences on rivers like the Colorado and Dolores, and modern controversies that threaten these special places.

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-59376-169-1 | Cloth | $24.00