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 established Turtle Point Press in 1990. During his tenure the press had two imprints, Jeannette Watson’s Books & Co. and the eponymous Helen Marx Books.

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, which is regarded as the first American gay novel, and was originally published in 1919. The other is 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.
Additional Turtle Point Press books that have received recognition are:
Turtle Point Press has published works by Michael Friedman, Richard Howard, Devin Johnston, Grace Schulman, David Trinidad, and Charles North, as well as Julien Gracq, Mark Strand, Wayne Koestenbaum, Katharine Coles, Herman Portocarero, Anna Moschovakis, and Charles Henri Ford. 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. Founding publisher Jonathan D. Rabinowitz stays on as editor-at-large.