Turtle Point Press
Turtle Point Press, founded in 1990, publishes new fiction, literary nonfiction, poetry, memoirs, works in translation, and rediscovered classics.
History
Jonathan D. Rabinowitz[1] established Turtle Point Press in 1990.[2] The press has two imprints, Jeannette Watson’s Books & Co. and the eponymous Helen Marx Books.[3]
Awards and Distinctions
Two books by Turtle Point press were named by The New York Times Book Review as notable books of the year: Bertram Cope's Year by Henry Blake Fuller, is regarded as the first American gay novel, originally published in 1919. The other was a 1997 memoir by Leila Hadley of her travels in India, A Journey With Elsa Cloud. The latter was published under the dual imprint Books & Company/Turtle Point.[2]
Additional Turtle Point Press books that have received recognition are:
- Trappings by Richard Howard - Lambda Literary Award
- Sources by Devin Johnston - Shortlisted for a National Book Critics Circle Award
- Tales Out of School by Benjamin Taylor - Harold Ribelow Award for Best Jewish Novel of the Year
- Broken Irish by Edward J. Delaney - Selected for several year-end Top Ten Books of the Year
- Dear Prudence: New and Selected Poems by David Trinidad - Selected for several year-end Top Ten Books of the Year
- The Deposition of Father McGreevy by Brian O'Doherty - Shortlisted for a Man Booker Prize
- What It Is Like: New and Selected Poems by Charles North - Named one of the year's best poetry books by National Public Radio
Authors
Turtle Point Press has published poets Richard Howard, Devin Johnston, David Trinidad, and Charles North, as well as Mark Strand, Wayne Koestenbaum, Anna Moschovakis, Christopher Cahill, Charles Henri Ford, and Howard Altmann. The press published the letters of New York School Poet James Schuyler, and has co-published with the Academy of American Poets, Hanging Loose Press, and Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
2016
In 2016, longtime Turtle Point Press editor and associate, Ruth Greenstein, took over running the press.[4] Founding publisher Jonathan D. Rabinowitz stays on as editor-at-large.