Seven Stories Press

22/11/2024

Big news from our kids’ imprint, Triangle Square Books for Young Readers!

20/11/2024

GIVEAWAY 🚨 Win a signed copy of Context Collapse by Ryan Ruby!

All you have to do is give us a follow and comment on this post with your favorite poetic form ❤️

We’ll contact the winner at the end of the week. Limited to US residents (sorry!). Only one winner will be chosen.

20/11/2024

Out Now: “Context Collapse: A Poem Containing A History of Poetry” by Ryan Ruby 🌀

Literary critic Ryan Ruby uncovers the secret history of poetry in a mock-academic verse essay filled with wit and wisdom. -

Literary critic Ryan Ruby uncovers the secret history of poetry in a mock-academic verse essay filled with wit and wisdom.

19/11/2024

Happy pub day to Ryan Ruby’s poetic history of poetry CONTEXT COLLAPSE!

Epic in sweep, Context Collapse is the secret history of the poet—from Bronze Age Greece and Renaissance Italy to the cafés of Grub Street and the Latin Quarter, from the creative writing departments of the American Midwest to the boardrooms of Silicon Valley.

Cheekily introducing academic discourse, media studies, cybersemiotics, literary sociology, and heterodox economics into his blank verse study of poetry, Ruby traces the always delicate dance between poets, their publishers, and their audiences, and shows how, time and time again, the social, technological, and aesthetic experiments that appear in poetic language have prefigured radical changes to the ways of life of millions of people.

15/11/2024

Exclusive Excerpt: “Camp Jeff” by Tova Reich ❤️‍🔥
Tova Reich’s new novel is a raucous and biting tale of a reeducation camp for wealthy s*x pests, helmed by a man named Jeffrey Epstein (not that one) -

Tova Reich’s new novel is a raucous and biting tale of a reeducation camp for wealthy s*x pests, helmed by a man named Jeffrey Epstein (not that one)

14/11/2024

Out now, Tova Reich’s new novel is a raucous and biting tale of a reeducation camp for wealthy s*x pests, helmed by a wealthy benefactor named Jeffrey Epstein (not that one), who just wants to clear his name.

Written in Reich’s signature satirical mode, Camp Jeff revels in its brazen indictment of contemporary masculinity, elite arrogance, and therapy culture. Her whip-smart dialogue and unsparing pen reveal rather than merely mock: here is a deeply considered work of psychological portraiture and a profound examination of contemporary American culture.

13/11/2024

Free eBook: Everybody Talks About the Weather . . . We Don’t by Ulrike Meinhof

Over the next seven days, we’re offering free digital copies of some of our more relevant — perhaps even inspiring — works of radical literature. Download a copy, share it with your friends, then read it together. Link in bio.

13/11/2024

FREE eBOOK: Ulrike Meinhof’s collected writings, “Everybody Talks About the Weather . . . We Don’t”
- https://mailchi.mp/sevenstories/required-reading-seven

12/11/2024

FREE eBOOK: You Have Not Yet Been Defeated by Alaa Abd El-Fattah - https://mailchi.mp/sevenstories/required-reading-six

12/11/2024

Free eBook: You Have Not Yet Been Defeated by Aala Abd El-Fattah

Over the next seven days, we’re offering free digital copies of some of our more relevant — perhaps even inspiring — works of radical literature. Download a copy, share it with your friends, then read it together. Link in bio.

“If we are to be treated like animals with no agency, so be it. But we shall bypass cattle and livestock, ignore pets and domesticates. We shall look to the lizards, starfish and earthworms— those beings that can regenerate after any injury, no matter how grave. We shall accept that regenerated organs may not be identical to what was lost. They could appear to be mutilated, but look closer and you will see the beauty in monstrosity, for only the monstrous can hold both the history of dreams and hopes, and the reality of defeat and pain together. The monstrous need not forget their old injuries in order to lose their fear of acquiring new ones.”

11/11/2024

Free eBook: “Full Spectrum Resistance, Vol 1 - Building Movements and Fighting to Win” by Aric McBay, a guide to direct action for those disillusioned with the posturing of liberal “activism.”

Over the next seven days, we’re offering free digital copies of some of our more relevant — perhaps even inspiring — works of radical literature.

Download a copy, share it with your friends, and then read it together. Link in bio.

The radical left is losing, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Here is the radical’s guide to activist work—the manual we need at this crucial moment to organize for universal human rights, a habitable earth, and a more egalitarian society.

Thoroughly exploring the achievements and failures of radical movements throughout history—from 19th-century anti-colonial rebellions in China and the environmental actions of First Nations and Native American tribes throughout the 20th century, to Black Lives Matter and the fight for Gay Liberation—the two volumes of Full Spectrum Resistance candidly advocate for direct action, not just risk-averse models of protest marches and call-ins. With in-depth histories and case studies of social justice and environmental movements, noted writer, activist, and farmer Aric McBay explains why passive resistance alone cannot work, and how we must be prepared to do whatever it takes to create substantial social change.

In Volume 1: Building Movements and Fighting to Win, McBay describes the need for resistance movements, and paints a portrait of what a thriving resistance movement might look like today. Citing successful movements such as the Deacons of Defense of the American Civil Rights Movement, the anti-colonial revolutions in Guinea and Cape Verde, and activist groups like Act-UP, McBay deftly illustrates how to organize activist groups and encourage enlistment, while also noting the necessary precautions one must take to secure these radical circles from infiltration and collapse.

11/11/2024

FREE eBOOK: “Full Spectrum Resistance, Vol 1 - Building Movements and Fighting to Win” by Aric McBay - https://mailchi.mp/sevenstories/required-reading-five

10/11/2024

Free eBook (Extended!): Roque Dalton’s Stories and Poems of a Class Struggle - https://mailchi.mp/sevenstories/required-reading-four-7573582

09/11/2024

FREE eBOOK: Stories and Poems of a Class Struggle by Roque Dalton - https://mailchi.mp/sevenstories/required-reading-four

08/11/2024

Free eBook: “Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture” by Angela Davis

Over the next seven days, we’re offering free digital copies of some of our more relevant — perhaps even inspiring — works of radical literature. Download a copy, share it with your friends, then read it together. Link in bio.

“The need to generate a conversation about the prospects for abolition is perhaps even greater now, because linked to the abolition of prisons is the abolition of the instruments of war, the abolition of racism, and, of course, the abolition of the social circumstances that lead poor men and women to look toward the military as their only avenue of escape from poverty, homelessness, and lack of opportunities.”

08/11/2024

FREE eBOOK: “Abolition Democracy” by Angela Davis - https://mailchi.mp/sevenstories/required-reading-two-7573573

07/11/2024

Free eBook: What Every Radical Should Know About State Repression by Victor Serge

Over the next seven days, we’re offering free digital copies of some of our more relevant — perhaps even inspiring — works of radical literature. Download a copy, share it with your friends, then read it together. Link in bio.

“Repression can really only live off fear. But is fear enough to remove need, thirst for justice, intelligence, reason, idealism…? Relying on intimidation, the reactionaries forget that they will cause more indignation, more hatred, more thirst for martyrdom, than real fear. They only intimidate the weak; they exasperate the best forces and temper the resolution of the strongest.”

07/11/2024

FREE eBOOK: What Every Radical Should Know About State Repression by Victor Serge - https://mailchi.mp/sevenstories/required-reading-two