Turtle Point Press

Taliban Beach Party dances with the muse of history on the streets of Los Angeles, leaping from parody to prophecy.Author: Eric HowardPublisher: Turtle Point PressPublication Date: Apr 11, 2017Number...

A gutsy female surf pro pushes against wild odds for what she wants--with deep surprises about who she is.Author: Michael MazzaPublisher: Turtle Point PressPublication Date: Jun 20, 2017Number of...

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant, mused the world's most famous leading man. "Even I want to be Cary Grant." It is 1959, the year of his greatest successes but also at the zenith of a charmed career,...

Short fiction exploring guilt and redemption, aspiration and failure, and the stubbornness of modest hopes. The usual mileposts are fading, and choice is in the context of institutions and...

A teenage girl's coming-of-age in the Midwest in the 1940s about which Tillie Olsen wrote, "Wondrous, a true American classic . . . the timeless magic which is art."Author: Hannah GreenPublisher:...

The portrait of a friendship expressed through James Schuyler's letters (1954-1958) to Frank OHara.Author: James SchuylerPublisher: Turtle Point PressPublication Date: Sep 01, 2006Number of Pages: 96...

Nantes, city of Breton and Rimbaud, is reconstructed from a memory based on Gracq's childhood lycee.Author: Julien GracqPublisher: Turtle Point PressPublication Date: Nov 01, 2005Number of Pages: 216...

The Stranger I Become: On Walking, Looking, and Writing (Joan Books)Author: Katharine ColesPublisher: Turtle Point PressPublication Date: June 08, 2021Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage:...

The Wine of Astonishment is a rediscovered classic: a portrait of two unmarried sisters in upstate New York during the early twentieth century. Esther and Martha are confined to their estate, nearing...

A bilingual (English and French) poetry anthology with works by 38 American poets in honor of Whitman's Leaves of Grass for its 150th anniversary. The poets include John Ashbery, Bill Berkson,...

"Scintillating." -Edmund White "A furtive treasure of the American avant-garde." --Publishers Weekly"A remarkably realized work of art." --Matthew StadlerThis artist's artist and poet's poet has had...

What It Is Like, Charles North's tenth book of poems, contains new work as well as a generous selection from his previous books. North's poetry has received high praise from a wide variety of...

A love affair between a young man and an older noblewoman. D'Aurevilly was, according to Paul Bourget, "a dreamer with an exquisite vision." What Never Dies, translated by Oscar Wilde while he was in...

"Always an elegist, in the Vergilian mode, Kane touches greatness here in the beautiful poignance of 'Third Parent, ' a farewell to his late mother-in-law. Only a handful of American poems in the...