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Dan Smetanka

@dansmetanka

SVP, Editorial Director, Catapult Book Group
Editor in Chief @CounterpointLLC Press

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"Humor is about paying attention, and also about claiming power." Karen E. Bender chats with Rachel Lyon about her latest story collection, THE WORDS OF DR. L, via Chicago Review of Books chireviewofbooks.com/2025/05/06/as-…

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Happy 95th birthday to legendary poet, essayist, educator, and environmentalist Gary Snyder! 🥳 Celebrate with us by checking out some of his classic works. 🌿 "Snyder’s is a wise voice crying out on behalf of the wilderness with an authority and eloquence that’s not been heard

Happy 95th birthday to legendary poet, essayist, educator, and environmentalist Gary Snyder! 🥳  Celebrate with us by checking out some of his classic works.

🌿 "Snyder’s is a wise voice crying out on behalf of the wilderness with an authority and eloquence that’s not been heard
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My second full length, RESTING BITCH FACE, goes to print today (and comes out in August)!!!!! Have you preordered yet??? You shoulddd: softskull.com/books/resting-…

My second full length, RESTING BITCH FACE, goes to print today (and comes out in August)!!!!! Have you preordered yet??? You shoulddd: softskull.com/books/resting-…
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Congratulations to debut Palestinian novelist Yasmin Zaher, who has won the world’s largest & most prestigious literary prize for young writers – the Swansea University dylanthomprize – for her debut novel, The Coin, marking twenty years of this global accolade. Chosen in a unanimous

Congratulations to debut Palestinian novelist Yasmin Zaher, who has won the world’s largest &amp; most prestigious literary prize for young writers – the <a href="/SwanseaUni/">Swansea University</a> <a href="/dylanthomprize/">dylanthomprize</a> – for her debut novel, The Coin, marking twenty years of this global accolade. 

Chosen in a unanimous
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Congratulations to Yasmin Zaher who has woken up to a bright spring morning here in Swansea as the 2025 Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize WINNER 🏆. Her debut novel, 'The Coin' was the judges unanimous pick in an incredibly strong shortlist of titles by 6 amazing authors. #SUDTP25

Congratulations to Yasmin Zaher who has woken up to a bright spring morning here in Swansea as the 2025 <a href="/SwanseaUni/">Swansea University</a> Dylan Thomas Prize WINNER 🏆. Her debut novel, 'The Coin' was the judges unanimous pick in an incredibly strong shortlist of titles by 6 amazing authors. #SUDTP25
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I wrote about On Breathing by Jamieson Webster, a book I found to be unusually intelligent and elegant newrepublic.com/article/193567…

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Resting Bitch Face comes out in just a FEW months with an August 26th release (and don't forget, it's a September pick for Roxane Gay's Audacious Book Club)! Want me to come read in your city, talk to your students, perform at your school/venue, chat about my work? Email me!!

Resting Bitch Face comes out in just a FEW months with an August 26th release (and don't forget, it's a September pick for Roxane Gay's Audacious Book Club)! Want me to come read in your city, talk to your students, perform at your school/venue, chat about my work? Email me!!
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🖤 COVER ANNOUNCEMENT 🖤 Big news for fans of THE BOG WIFE! If you loved Kay Chronister's last book, you'll love her new collection of gothic short fiction, THIN PLACES, arriving this Fall! Cover design by the fabulous @nlcaputo 📚 Preorder now: counterpointpress.com/books/thin-pla…

🖤 COVER ANNOUNCEMENT 🖤 Big news for fans of THE BOG WIFE! If you loved <a href="/kaychronister/">Kay Chronister</a>'s last book, you'll love her new collection of gothic short fiction, THIN PLACES, arriving this Fall! Cover design by the fabulous @nlcaputo 📚 

Preorder now: counterpointpress.com/books/thin-pla…
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Congratulations to Michelle de Kretser for winning the 2025 Stella Prize & for risking speaking on behalf of Palestine & Palestinians in her acceptance speech ICYMI here is our conversation about Theory & Practice: Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/michel…

Congratulations to Michelle de Kretser for winning the 2025 Stella Prize &amp; for risking speaking on behalf of Palestine &amp; Palestinians in her acceptance speech 
ICYMI here is our conversation about Theory &amp; Practice: 
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/michel…
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Review of Karen Bender's THE WORDS OF MR. L in Briefly Noted of The New Yorker! Congrats, Karen! Pick up this stellar collection of short stories. "These often speculative stories take place in worlds in which troubling features of our own are amplified." newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…

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Last chance to vote for RABBIT HEART for this year's Reading the West Book Award in the Memoir category! 🐇 📚 Voting closes officially on 5/31. Head here to cast your ballot: readingthewest.com/35th-annual-vo…

Last chance to vote for RABBIT HEART for this year's Reading the West Book Award in the Memoir category! 🐇 📚 

Voting closes officially on 5/31. Head here to cast your ballot: readingthewest.com/35th-annual-vo…
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Milo Todd’s THE LILAC PEOPLE is about a trans man who must relinquish the freedoms of prewar Berlin to survive first the Nazis and then the Allies while protecting the ones he loves. Counterpoint Press Learn more in our review! bookreporter.com/reviews/the-li…

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✨ COVER ANNOUNCEMENT ✨ We're thrilled to share the the cover of Isabel Colegate's STATUES IN A GARDEN—now available for the first time in the U.S.! Along with two gorgeous repackages of her classics THE SHOOTING PARTY and WINTER JOURNEY, designed by @nlcaputo and Victoria

✨ COVER ANNOUNCEMENT ✨ We're thrilled to share the the cover of Isabel Colegate's STATUES IN A GARDEN—now available for the first time in the U.S.! Along with two gorgeous repackages of her classics THE SHOOTING PARTY and WINTER JOURNEY, designed by @nlcaputo and Victoria
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A beautiful The New York Times profile of Counterpoint author Lynn Freed, who sadly passed away last month. "The author of seven novels, dozens of essays and a collection of short stories, Ms. Freed was praised by critics for her spare, wry and unsentimental style."