Seven Stories Press: 508 books
Arctic Voices
Resistance at the Tipping Point
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
**"One of the great strengths of Arctic Voices is that it shows how Alaska and the Arctic are tied to the places where most of us live. In this impassioned book, Banerjee shows a situation so serious that it has created a movement, where 'voices of resistance are gathering, are getting...
by Kurt Vonnegut
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
From Slapstick's "Turkey Farm" to Slaughterhouse-Five's eternity in a Tralfamadorean zoo cage with Montana Wildhack, the question of the afterlife never left Kurt Vonnegut's mind. In God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian, Vonnegut skips back and forth between life and the Afterlife as if the difference...
Scorched Earth
Legacies of Chemical Warfare in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Scorched Earth is the first book to chronicle the effects of chemical warfare on the Vietnamese people and their environment, where, even today, more than 3 million people—including 500,000 children—are sick and dying from birth defects, cancer, and other illnesses that can be directly traced...
I Refuse to Die
My Journey For Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
An extraordinary account of how a laborer's son rose to challenge the power of despots, I Refuse to Die is both the autobiography of one gifted man who rose above the horrors of colonization, and an uncensored history of modern Kenya. The book is infused with the freedom songs of the Kenyan people,...
Unstuck in Time
A Journey Through Kurt Vonnegut's Life and Novels
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
In Unstuck in Time, Gregory Sumner guides us, with insight and passion, through a biography of fifteen of Kurt Vonnegut’s best known works, his fourteen novels starting with Player Piano (1952) all the way to an epilogue on his last book, A Man Without a Country (2005), to illustrate the quintessential...
Jews Queers Germans
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
A breathtaking historical novel that recreates the intimate milieu around Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm from 1907 through the 1930s, a period of great human suffering and destruction and also of enormous freedom and creativity, a time when the remnants and artifices of the old word still mattered, and...
The Oh Really? Factor
Unspinning Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Since emerging from tabloid-television infamy as the former host of Inside Edition, Bill O’Reilly has taken his brand of provocative rhetoric to the next level: from shock-TV to the No Spin Zone. Despite his outspoken support for Bush’s tax cuts and a war with Iraq, and his attacks on everything...
by Harriet Scott Chessman
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Harriet Scott Chessman takes us into the world of Mary Cassatt's early Impressionist paintings through Mary's sister Lydia, whom the author sees as Cassatt’s most inspiring muse. Chessman hauntingly brings to life Paris in 1880, with its thriving art world. The novel’s subtle power rises out of...
The Man with the Golden Arm
50th Anniversary Critical Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
A novel of rare genius, The Man with the Golden Arm describes the dissolution of a card-dealing WWII veteran named Frankie Machine, caught in the act of slowly cutting his own heart into wafer-thin slices. For Frankie, a murder committed may be the least of his problems.
The literary critic Malcolm...
by Annie Ernaux
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
*Shortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize*
Co-winner of the 2018 French-American Foundation Translation Prize in Nonfiction
Winner of the 2017 Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her entire body of work
Winner of the 2016 Strega European Prize
Considered by many to be the iconic French...
by Annie Ernaux
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
A New York Times Notable Book
In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion. Blurring the line between fact and fiction, an unnamed narrator attempts to plot the emotional and physical course of her two-year...
Booked
The Last 150 Years Told through Mug Shots
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Every year twelve million Americans are arrested and photographed by the police. In many ways, mug shots are our history. Using a dazzling selection of mug shots that are arrestingly raw in their starkness and strangely eloquent in their simplicity, this absorbing, humorous, often bewildering collection...
A Life in Words
Conversations with I. B. Siegumfeldt
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
An inside look into Paul Auster's art and craft, the inspirations and obsessions, mesmerizing and dramatic in turn.
A remarkably candid, and often surprisingly dramatic, investigation into one writer's art, craft, and life, A Life in Words is rooted in three years of dialogue between Auster...
Imagining Paradise
New and Selected Poems
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
A world of poems as populous and diverse as it is ephemeral and evanescent, born of the world and of books and art in equal measure, yielding granite truths and feather truths of people's roller-coaster lives. The poet looks back, facing life and death and everything in between with equanimity, holding...