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| Founded | 2007 |
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| Successor | Catapult |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | Berkeley, California |
| Distribution | PenguinRandomHouse |
| Key people | Charlie Winton,CEO Jack Shoemaker,Vice President, Editorial director Richard Nash, Executive Editor |
| Imprints | Counterpoint Press,Soft Skull Press, Sierra Club/Counterpoint |
| Official website | counterpointpress |
Counterpoint LLC was apublishing company thatPerseus Books Group launched in 2007. It was formed from the consolidation of three presses: Perseus' Counterpoint Press, Shoemaker & Hoard, and Soft Skull Press. The company published books under both the Counterpoint Press and Soft Skull Press imprints. Counterpoint also entered into an agreement for the production, marketing, and distribution of approximately eightSierra Club book titles each year.
BothWendell Berry and poetGary Snyder were investors in Counterpoint, with both having works published by the imprint.Jack Shoemaker, Vice-president and editorial director of Counterpoint, had worked with both authors in other companies for more than thirty years. Counterpoint notably published works by Albanian authorIsmail Kadare, includingA Girl in Exile,The Traitor’s Niche, andThe Doll: A Portrait of My Mother.[1]
Counterpoint merged into fellow publisher Catapult in 2016.[2]
| Parent company | Catapult, funded and co-founded by Elizabeth Koch |
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| Founded | 1992 |
| Founder | Sander Hicks |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | New York City |
| Distribution | PenguinRandomHouse |
| Key people | Yuka Igarashi, editor |
| Nonfiction topics | Alternative culture,LGBTQ literature |
| Imprints | Red Rattle Books |
| Official website | softskull |
Soft Skull Press is anindependent book publisher founded by Sander Hicks in 1992, and run byYuka Igarashi from 2017 until 2022, when she was hired byGraywolf Press.[3][4]
In 2007, Richard Nash, who had taken Soft Skull over from Hicks in 2001, sold the publisher to Counterpoint, who closed Soft Skull's New York operation in 2010.[5][6]
Counterpoint merged with fellow publisherCatapult in 2016. Subsequently, Soft Skull reopened its New York office with Yuka Igarashi as editor-in-chief,[7] and began to reissue backlist books. These includedThe Amputee's Guide to Sex by Jillian Weise,Something Bright, Then Holes byMaggie Nelson, andWayne Koestenbaum's 2004 novel,Moira Orfei in Aigues-Mortes under the new title,Circus.[8] The publisher has since acquired and published new works.
