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May 17

There’s no greater chronicler of the despair and hysteria of America in the late twentieth century than Gary Indiana. A novelist, playwright, photographer, poet, and former art critic at the Village Voice, Indiana has set down a generation’s pathologies for posterity. Now, exclusively for the Seven Stories Blog, he takes on the case Jann Wenner, the impresario behind Rolling Stone. Check out Indiana’s review of Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine here!

April 23

The JT LeRoy scandal is a story of our times. In January 2006, the New York Times unmasked Savannah Knoop as the face of the mysterious author JT LeRoy. A media frenzy ensued as JT’s fans, mentors, and readers came to terms with the fact that the gay-male-ex-truck-stop-prostitute-turned literary-wunderkind was really an invention of Knoop, who played the character of LeRoy, and Knoop's sister-in-law Laura Albert, who wrote the books.

Now Knoop's memoir of the experience, Girl Boy Girl, has been turned into a movie, JT LeRoy, starring Kristen Stewart and Laura Dern. To link up with the film, we're publishing a new edition of the book, with a brand new preface by Knoop, exclusively online here at the Seven Stories Blog. Click through to see!

October 18

The Price of the Ticket

by Kia Corthron

Originally published in the July/August 2016 issue of The Dramatist

Three years ago I was standing in the lobby of a theater, the typical Broadway cluster-mob awaiting entrance, with more than half the horde African-American. This would be logical, as the show was the musical revue After Midnight, a refurbishing of a prior concert piece entitled Cotton Club Parade celebrating Ellington-era jazz and dance. Inside, my sister and I were led to our orchestra seats, and I looked around: not another black face in sight. It took me a moment to realize that The Mystery of the Vanishing Black Folks likely would have been quickly resolved had we moved up to the balconies. But from where I sat, observing the complexion of the performers versus that of the onlookers, it was the Cotton Club, the Colors entertaining the Caucasians, and that the upper tiers may have been filled with black faces was not exactly comforting, an economically induced throwback to Jim Crow segregation with African Americans relegated to the peanut gallery.

December 21

July 31

A newsletter from our publisher.

December 08

Harriet Hyman Alonso, author of Martha and the Slave Catchers, a book for middle school readers, speaks with Catherine A. Franklin an education professor who created the Martha and the Slave Catchers curriculum guide. They discuss some of the aspects of Martha and the Slave Catchers that relate to history and teaching, William Llyod Garrison's unruly but ethical children, and some questions for today, including: "Who are the modern abolitionists?" and "How do we resist unfair laws?"

September 20

A newsletter from our publisher.

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February 22

What does it mean to have, or to love, a black body? Taking on the challenge of interpreting the black body's dramatic role in American culture, Nana-Ama Danquah's anthology The Black Body asks thirty black, white, and biracial contributors—award-winning actors, artists, writers, and comedians—including voices as varied as President Obama's inaugural poet Elizabeth Alexander, actor and bestselling author Hill Harper, and former Saturday Night Live writer Anne Beatts.

As part of our celebration of Black History Month, we're publishing Danquah's introduction to The Black Body here on the blog. It's a wise and thoughtful piece that delves into complex questions of bodies, blackness, and perception. We hope you'll enjoy.

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April07

Online with ZOOM: From the coeditor of Ink Knows No Borders comes the ultimate...

6.00pm
October02
Join us as Harper's Magazine and Book Culture on Columbus present D.D. Guttenplan on his new book The Next Republic: The Rise of a New Radical Majority on Tuesday, October 2nd at 7pm
New York, NY
7.00pm
Book Culture
October13

D. D. Guttenplan will discuss The Next Republic: The Rise of a New Radical Majority. He...

Chicago, IL
3.00pm
57th Street Books
October14

Who are the new progressive leaders emerging to lead the post-Trump return of democracy in...

Seattle, WA
6.00pm
The Summit on Pike (Capitol Hill)
October07

Philosopher and cultural critic Slavoj Žižek is internationally recognized for his...

New York, NY
6.30pm
Skirball Center
October08

Tuesday, October 8th / NYC
7-9 pm (doors open at 6:30)

Tribeca Performing Arts Center (Theater 2)...

New York, NY
7.00pm
Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
October30
An evening with best-selling author Lola Lafon, here to discuss her prize-winning novel "The Little Communist Who Never Smiled," a fictionalized account of Olympic Gymnast Nadia Comaneci’s journey from rural Romania to Olympic stardom and eventual defecti
New York, NY
7.00pm
Bluestockings
May03

Join Seven Stories and Haymarket Books for a launch of Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s important new...

Online, Internet!
6.00pm
Zoom / Live Stream
April25

Robin Marty is a writer and reporter who covers abortion access and the pro-choice and pro-life...

Brooklyn, NY
7.00pm
Edge Condominium
May04

City Lights and Seven Stories Press celebrate the publication of the paperback release of Writers...

San Francisco, CA
6.00pm
Canessa Gallery
May19
A Salute to Grads: Novelist Paul Auster; Kurt Vonnegut’s son, Mark Vonnegut; and graphic writer Ryan North Host a Virtual Graduation Party
The Internet!
7.00pm
The Internet!
March15

The Carolina Abortion Fund is happy to be hosting Robin Marty, author of Handbook for a Post-Roe...

Chapel Hill, NC
6.30pm
Flyleaf Books
March16

This month's FBomb features two powerhouse writers you won't want to miss! Hosted by...

United States
5.00pm
December09

Please join us for a reading and conversation with Kia Corthron to celebrate the...

Online, Internet!
7.00pm
Prairie Lights Bookstore
April30

A celebration of Alaa Abd el-Fattah's You Have Not Yet Been Defeated, featuring his...

Chicago, IL
11.00pm
Seminary Co-op Bookstore
November11

Giants: The Global Power Elite

INSIDE THE 1% TRANSNATIONAL CAPITALIST CLASS

•Eight men have...

Berkeley, CA
6.30pm
South Berkeley Senior Center
August08

This month we are featuring Alex DiFrancesco! Alex writes fiction, creative non-fiction, and they...

Shaker Heights, Ohio
7.00pm
Loganberry Books
May06

Many believe that COVID-19 has exposed everything that’s wrong with decades of the...

Seattle, WA
7.30pm
Town Hall Seattle (virtual)
June18

In 2011, blogger Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s animated writing and activism fused his politics and...

Tompkins Square Park
10.00am
Tompkins Square Park
March19

A grieving, spirited, and often in trouble teenage girl named Orla McDevitt meets a man called...

Lancaster, United Kingdom
5.00pm
The Dukes