About Turtle Point Press

I founded Turtle Point Press in 1990 after working for 25 years as the Director of International Sales for a large chemical company. From its very beginning I have been committed to rediscovering forgotten literary fiction and to publishing contemporary fiction and poetry by writers whose work is both unique and irresistibly readable. Turtle Point’s books are known for their superior literary content and for the elegance of their design and typesetting.

Turtle Point Press books have won many prizes. The Deposition of Father McGreevy by Brian O’Doherty, published by Turtle Point Press with Books & Co and Helen Marx Books was short-listed for the Booker Award. Many of our books including Bertram Copes Year by Henry Blake Fuller and A Journey With Elsa Cloud (with Books & Co) by Leila Hadley were New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Hotel Sarajevo by Jack Kersh was the winner of the prestigious New Voices Award.

Poets who have published with Turtle Point Press include Richard Howard, Mark Strand, David Trinidad, Wayne Koestenbaum, Anna Moschovakis, Mario Susko, Tony Sanders, Damon Krukowski, Jonathan Williams and Paul Kane. Turtle Point has published the letters of New York School Poet, James Schuyler.

In addition to Brian O’Doherty and Jack Kersh we have published new novels by Joe Ashby Porter, Benjamin Taylor, Michael Friedman, George Stade, Tobias Seamon, Eugene Marten, Reid Mitchell, and Stuart David. We have published Short Story Collections by Daniel Scott and Robert Boyers. Our rediscoveries include works by Hal Bennett, Lord Berners (with Helen Marx Books), Jocelyn Brooke, J.K. Huysmans, Hannah Green (with Books & Co), Henry Blake Fuller, Princess Bibesco and Seumas O’Kelly among many others. Two distinguished fiction writers, James McCourt and Simon Van Booy were published by Turtle Point Press in 2007.

Turtle Point Press is one of America’s best publishers of belle-lettristic books and these include works by Jules Laforgue, Julien Gracq, Bruce Kellner, Juliet Soskice, Tim Brookes, Janet Ross, Percy Lubbock and Maurice Maeterlinck. An essay entitled Not for Your Average Reader written by Robert Leiter for The Jewish Exponent describes in some detail the founding of Turtle Point Press.

The late New York bookseller Irwin Rosen once wrote, “It is better for a book to sit in the back row and be discovered than to sit in the front row and be found out.” I am consoled, if not guided, in my choices by his words.

Sincerely,
Jonathan D Rabinowitz