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the current retail price of all our Barry books is $375, so in addition to being basically the coolest thing you could own, this is also technically "a good deal"

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Our summer reading recommendations are live! From CIA conspiracies to summer camp satires, we've got something for every weird reader to bring to the beach and have a hard time explaining to your mom sevenstories.com/blogs/375-su...

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👀🌙 Grace Krilanovich’s cult-classic novel — The Orange Eats Creeps — is being adapted to film, under the title “The Highway That Eats People.” WestEnd Films has boarded worldwide sales for the film, which will be directed by Mary Harron. 🔗 www.screendaily.com/news/westend...

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can confirm that our summer reading list is created exclusively by our own unwell contrarian brains

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our summer book guide has everything...CIA conspiracies, 900-page bios, romantic bummers, Greek revolutionaries

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Parked in the arid sands in the northern Sinai of Egypt are 2,000 trucks filled with sacks of flour, water tanks, canned food, medical supplies, tarps and fuel. A few miles away in Gaza.

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letters, poetry, and journalism document young Ernesto Guevara's second Latin American journey in 1953. Together, these writings reveal how the young Argentine is transformed into a militant revolutionary. LATIN AMERICA DIARIES is available now.

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“poetry, like bread, is for everyone.” J’adore Roque Dalton.

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Happy 90th birthday to Roque Dalton! Born in San Salvador on May 14, 1935, Roque Dalton dedicated his life to armed struggle while writing fierce, tender poems about his country and its people. “I believe the world is beautiful,” Dalton writes, “and that poetry, like bread, is for everyone.”

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In much of the fiction produced in Annie Ernaux’s image, “form is distorted into self-referential anguish by the content,” writes Associate Fiction Editor Livia Wood, revisiting Noor Qasim’s 2022 essay on the millennial sex novel. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/the-millen...

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New on our blog: the foreword to LATIN AMERICA DIARIES, the MOTORCYCLE DIARIES sequel now available from Seven Stories Press sevenstories.com/blogs/374-ex...

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My latest is also my first byline at @thebulwark.com - a look at Murray Kempton and a new anthology of his work by @sevenstories.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/the-late-g...

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"They're lured by visions of convenience, of course. You know, just swipe or hit a button. And then this convenience is transformed by these omnipresent fine print contracts into exploitation, into gouging, into invading privacy." Ralph Nader on @marketplace.org today

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Congratulations to the Pope of Chicago

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HQ update: We have a fucking ton of Annie Ernaux. (and tons of other @sevenstories.bsky.social titles)

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Waiting for white smoke? Reflect on The Pope That Was with Ted Rall’s FRANCIS www.sevenstories.com/books/4002-f...

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Joanna Concejo’s gorgeously rendered illustrations elevate MR DISTINCTIVE, written by Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk, into the realm of the art object.

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If you duct tape all of these together it counts as one actually

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Hot Algren Summer starts NOW

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Mark your calendars, Kempton-heads! Andrew Holter will be launching Going Around TOMORROW at @phbookstores.bsky.social. Tickets and info here: powerhousearena.com/events/book-...

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🌟 [WRITER SPOTLIGHT] Mosab Abu Toha is the author of “Things You May Find in My Ear” (@citylightsbooks.bsky.social, 2022) and “Forest of Noise” (@aaknopf.bsky.social, 2024). He is also a poet in our book “Sumūd: A New Palestinian Reader” (@sevenstories.bsky.social, 2025). (1/2)

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Palestinian Poet Mosab Abu Toha on Winning a Pulitzer: I Can't Celebrate While Gaza Is Starving

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MR DISTINCTIVE is out today from Seven Stories Press. www.sevenstories.com/books/4664-m...

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Annie Ernaux sums up the American voting experience with scalpel precision. 📚

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Happy pub day to the FIVE (yes, count em) incredible titles releasing today! From powerful Ukrainian fiction and nonfiction, to a career-spanning Murray Kempton collection, incisive art criticism, and a radical guide to staying alive for readers of all ages, we've got a book for just about everyone.

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guess what

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Sure we actually enjoy talking to people on this website, and more people see our stuff, and it's not owned by a spiraling fascist. But the other site is where all the Lorde Updates accounts that love us are. So really it's a toss-up.

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Some of our favorite May Day graphics from @tamimentlibrary.bsky.social 🧵

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whoever was doing the American Postal Workers Union graphics in the 80s needs to be put in charge of everything immediately

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Happy May 1st. The value of your labor belongs to you and the actions of the state are best understood as as a coordinated effort to distract you from this. The state fears an organized and unified proletariat like it fears death and rightly so. Power to the workers and power to the people

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Happy May Day!! We're celebrating our favorite authors, activists, and agitators with 30% off labor highlights from our catalog. sevenstories.com/blogs/373-ce...

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We are thrilled to announce that Sons, Daughters by Ivana Bodrožić (tr. Ellen Elias-Bursać) has been selected as a finalist for the EBRD Literature Prize 2025!

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And then there were three! We’re delighted to announce the finalists for the #EBRDLiteraturePrize2025: 📗Forgottenness @bullaunpress.bsky.social 📗Sons, Daughters @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social 📗The Empusium @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social www.ebrd.com/home/news-an...

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There are few chronicles of life in Ukraine in the 1990s (a fascinating period), and the novel ROCK, PAPER, GRENADE by Artem Chekh, published this week in English translation by @sevenstories.bsky.social, is unforgettable. IMO one of contemporary Ukrainian literature's best showings in the US.

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"About seven years ago, I decided that in my time outside of work I would read the ten or eleven thousand newspaper columns written by Murray Kempton, the distinguished American reporter who died in 1997. No one asked me to do this." lithub.com/murray-kempt...

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