Seven Stories Press

05/26/2026

Happy pub day to the brilliant Cat Fitzpatrick’s THE DINNER PARTY! A shining, lively collection of poetry exploring love in all its forms, Cat creates a modern-day symposium full of riotous musings and trans jubilation. If you’re on the East Coast, catch her on tour this week, and pick up your copy today wherever fine poetry is sold!

05/23/2026

We’re continuing to dive into the catalog for Mental Health Awareness Month by looking back at the work of ! In her comic strips, Emma reflects on social and feminist issues by means of simple line drawings, dissecting the mental load, i.e. all that invisible and unpaid organizing, list-making and planning women do to manage their lives, and the lives of their family members. Emma deals with themes ranging from maternity leave (it is not a vacation!), domestic violence, the cl****is, the violence of the medical world on women during childbirth, and other feminist issues, and she does so in a straightforward way that is both hilarious and deadly serious.

05/21/2026

Congratulations, graduates! We’re celebrating everyone moving up and on this week (that includes you, ) by revisiting ’s introduction to PITY THE READER, a collection of some of our favorite Kurt Vonnegut essays—including his iconic graduation speeches.

05/16/2026

This Saturday, in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, we’re reading Mark Vonnnegut’s THE EDEN EXPRESS.

Winner of the American Library Association Notable Book Award, THE EDEN EXPRESS describes from the inside Mark Vonnegut’s experience in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s—a recent college grad; in love; living communally on a farm, with a famous and doting father, cherished dog, and prized jalopy—and then the nervous breakdowns in all their slow-motion intimacy, the taste of mortality and opportunity for humor they provided, and the grim despair they afforded as well. That he emerged to write this funny and true book and then moved on to find the meaningful life that for a while had seemed beyond reach is what ultimately happens in THE EDEN EXPRESS. But the real story here is that throughout his harrowing experience his sense of humor let him see the humanity of what he was going through, and his gift of language let him describe it in such a moving way that others could begin to imagine both its utter ordinariness as well as the madness we all share.

05/14/2026

San Diego! Join us next Thursday, May 21, for the release of UNDER THE PERFECT SUN with Kelly Mayhew and Jim Miller.

UNDER THE PERFECT SUN, written by Mayhew, Miller, and the late Mike Davis, is a muckraking history of San Diego that covers the city’s historically recent shift from politically conservative to politically progressive while also outlining a new cast of right-wing villains and tenacious activists fighting for social justice. This twentieth-anniversary edition is an ode to one of America’s most complex cities.

05/13/2026

¡Feliz lanzamiento, NEWYORKINAS! Lectores de MI BUENA MALA SUERTW, LA HIJA DEL HURACAN y LA CASA EN MANGO STREET, amarán esta primera novela de Loretta López para preadolescentes sobre refugiarse entre amigos que entienden los enormes cambios que la vida te depara cuando tienes once años.

Happy release, NEWYORKINAS! Readers of Lucky Broken Girl, Hurricane Child, and The House on Mango Street, will love this debut middle grade novel about finding sanctuary with friends who understand the enormous changes life can throw at you when you’re 11.

05/12/2026

Happy pub day to THE EXCEPTION by Barry Gifford! From the award-winning author and screenplay writer comes a collected book that brings together all of Barry Gifford’s Uncle Buck stories, many written in 2024 and 2025 with others dating back to the early 2000s.

Just as readers were introduced to the immortal characters of Sailor and Lula in Gifford’s Wild at Heart in 1990—brought to cinematic life that same year by Nicholas Cage and Laura Dern in David Lynch’s Palme d’Or-winning film—Uncle Buck and Roy come to life in The Exception as indelible American characters, restoring a sense of family out of the broken pieces left behind after death and divorce. Gifford’s world is alive and eternal, returning us to this time and these places that exist no longer, except here.

05/09/2026

This week on Saturday Spotlight, we’re looking at Moyra Davey’s MOTHER READER! The intersection of motherhood and creative life is explored in these writings on mothering that turn the spotlight from the child to the mother herself. Here, in memoirs, testimonials, diaries, essays, and fiction, mothers describe first-hand the changes brought to their lives by pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering. What emerges is a sense of a community of writers speaking to and about each other out of a common experience, and a compilation of extraordinary literature never before assembled in a single volume.

05/05/2026

Alex DiFrancesco is taking THE GRIEF SHOP on tour!

How do you tell the story of being human in an unfeeling world? From the author of TRANSMUTATION comes a linked collection of speculative short fiction that follows a woman navigating surreal jobs in a near-future dystopia, in which people have become completely numb to their emotions following a cataclysmic event.

Catch Alex this June, and pre-order your copy of THE GRIEF SHOP now.

05/04/2026

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05/02/2026

This week on Saturday Spotlight, we’re celebrating the incredible Wallace Shawn and reading FINAL EDITION! Edited by Wallace Shawn with contributions by Jonathan Schell, Mark Strand and Deborah Eisenberg, Final Edition was a one-issue-only political magazine published in the midst of the Iraq war. It’s written by people who are aesthetes and literary writers and edited by Wallace Shawn, who seriously believes that part of our national problem is that the people who run the country have a crude and minimal imaginative life and are too little acquainted with the quartets of Beethoven.