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Counterpoint
Founded2007
SuccessorCatapult
Country of originUnited States
Headquarters locationBerkeley, California
DistributionPenguinRandomHouse
Key peopleCharlie Winton,CEO
Jack Shoemaker,Vice President,Editorial director
Richard Nash, Executive Editor
ImprintsCounterpoint Press,Soft Skull Press,Sierra Club/Counterpoint
Official websitecounterpointpress

Counterpoint LLCwas apublishingcompany thatPerseus Books Grouplaunched 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 booktitles each year.

BothWendell Berryand poetGary Snyderwere 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]

Soft Skull Press

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Soft Skull Press
Parent companyCatapult, funded and co-founded by Elizabeth Koch
Founded1992
FounderSander Hicks
Country of originUnited States
Headquarters locationNew York City
DistributionPenguinRandomHouse
Key peopleYuka Igarashi, editor
Nonfiction topicsAlternative culture,LGBTQliterature
ImprintsRed Rattle Books
Official websitesoftskull

Soft Skull Pressis anindependentbook publisher founded by Sander Hicks in 1992, and run by Yuka Igarashi since 2017.[3]

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.[4][5]

Counterpoint merged with fellow publisherCatapultin 2016. Subsequently, Soft Skull reopened its New York office with Yuka Igarashi as editor-in-chief,[6]and began to reissue backlist books. These includedThe Amputee's Guide to Sexby Jillian Weise,Something Bright, Then HolesbyMaggie Nelson,andWayne Koestenbaum's 2004 novel,Moira Orfei in Aigues-Mortesunder the new title,Circus.[7]The publisher has since acquired and published new works.

References

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  1. ^"Books by Ismail Kadare and Complete Book Reviews".PublishersWeekly.
  2. ^"Two Years Post-merger, Catapult, Counterpoint, and Soft Skull Are Going Strong".PublishersWeekly.Retrieved2018-11-04.
  3. ^"Q and A with an Editor: Yuka Igarashi".The Authors Guild.January 18, 2018.
  4. ^"Richard Nash to Leave Soft Skull, Counterpoint".Poets & Writers.2009-02-26.Retrieved2022-02-08.
  5. ^Neyfakh, Leon (November 2, 2010)."Indie Publisher Soft Skull Press Closes Its Doors In New York".The New York Observer.
  6. ^"Two Years Post-merger, Catapult, Counterpoint, and Soft Skull Are Going Strong".PublishersWeekly.Retrieved2018-11-04.
  7. ^"BOMB interviews Wayne Koestenbaum about Circus".Soft Skull Press.2019-10-09.Retrieved2021-03-24.

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