Since its founding in 1990, Turtle Point Press has delighted readers with new fiction, poetry, memoirs, translations and rediscovered classics. Helen Marx Books began its imprint in 1997. Publishing separately and occasionally together our books in the last few years were reviewed in The New York Times, Time Out, Los Angeles Times, TLS, The Australian, Poetry, Lambda Literary Review and in many other fine literary journals and blogs. In 2008 two Turtle Point Press poetry titles received special notice. Without Saying by Richard Howard was nominated for a National Book Award and Sources by Devin Johnston was nominated as a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and named one of the five Best Poetry Books of the Year by St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
In Fall, 2009 Turtle Point Press will publish Creaturely and Other Essays by Devin Johnston and Marbles, a book of aphorisms, a first book by James Guida. Sydney and Flora by Geoffrey Biddle, with introduction by Susanna Moore, is Turtle Point Press's first photography title in many years. Turtle Point Press and Helen Marx Books will co-publish Artists' Wives, Short Stories by Alphonse Daudet. This forgotten gem will be released with a new introduction by Olivier Bernier. Lastly Turtle Point Press will publish a tiny chapbook, a collaboration between poets D.A. Powell and David Trinidad entitled, By Myself, An Autobiography.
Please browse all our forthcoming and backlist titles on line and be sure to take note of our ever expanding and dependably quirky On Demand titles including Oscar Wilde's translation of Barbey D'Aurevilly's What Never Dies, Max Ewing's classic novel about New York in the Twenties, Going Somewhere, and the amusingly titled but surprisingly helpful French Stumbling-Blocks and English Stepping-Stones by Francis Tarver.
When you visit New York please be sure to call to visit our tiny office gallery. A list of the 2009 book related shows and the dates of the openings are available by clicking Gallery in the banner at the top of the page.
Jonathan D. Rabinowitz, Publisher, Turtle Point Press
Helen Marx, Publisher, Helen Marx Books