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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.

March 28

Happy birthday to Nelson Algren, one of Seven Stories's founding authors and patron saints. Algren was the first ever National Book Award winner, the one-time lover of Simone de Beauvoir, and an inspiration to artists as diverse as Kurt Vonnegut and Donald Barthelme, Studs Turkel and Lou Reed. But Algren was much more than his accolades and could ever show, as the following excerpt from his Noncomformity: Writing on Writing will attest. Beginning with an epigraph from F. Scott Fitzgerald in his 'crack-up' years, Algren's essay is, in some ways, the opposite of inspiring. It is a look into the depths of the writer's motivation (hint: vindictiveness), and a hymn to all those who "live underground." Perhaps enjoy is not the world—but we hope you'll find yourself moved and provoked by this lyrical and brilliant piece of writing on writing.

April 06

The refrain we hear over and over, in the United States at least, is that people today are apathetic about politics. Yet it turns out that this is far from the case. Voters in the U.S. and in democracies around the world are more engaged in politics than they've ever been. The catch is that they're disillusioned with the democratic process itself. Only 33% of Europeans have faith in the EU. The U.S. Congress has a 69% negative rating. So what gives? In Against Elections, set to be published on April 17th, David Van Reybrouck diagnoses the symptoms of our ailing democracies and comes up with a radical solution: drawing lots, rather than voting, to determine our politicians, just as the ancient Athenians did. Here as an exclusive excerpt on the Seven Stories Blog is the book's introduction, from former Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan, and the first chapter of Van Reybrouck's book. 

June 05

The Seven Stories fiction list began with Nelson Algren stories, with titles like "The Face on the Barroom Floor" and "The Lightless Room." These are not exactly beach reads, nor are the books you'll find below. What you will find are novels rooted in this world, presenting the dignity of people struggling to make sense of it and in one way or another to change it.

So, this is another kind of summer fiction list. We hope you'll find much that will challenge, inspire, and engage, in times of darkness and of light.

All titles 50% off for one week only, through June 14, 5:00PM EST.

October 02

You may have heard of the Epic of Gilgamesh, but have heard of the graphic novel of the Epic of Gilgamesh? And did you know that it's actually the most up-to-date English version of the ancient text, based on new translations from a recently discovered tablet? If you didn't, now you do! And here in "The Making of the Dixon Gilgamesh" you can learn even more. Kent H. Dixon, one half of the father-son team behind this ingenious work, talks about taking courses in Akkadian by mail, becoming a "monster of memory," and the prudery of an esteemed old translator who couldn't bear to render sex scenes in anything but Latin. Enjoy! 

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December 06

This is the real gift of her work, a gift that shines in Bloodchild: in inviting her readers to engage with darker realities, to immerse themselves in worlds more disturbing and complex than our own, she asks readers to acknowledge the costs of our collective inaction, our collective bowing to depravity, to tribalism, to easy ignorance and violence. Her primary characters refuse all of that. Her primary characters refuse to deny the better aspects of their humanity. They insist on embracing tenderness and empathy, and in doing so, they invite readers to realize that we might do so as well. Butler makes hope possible.

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October24
Ivana Bodrozic with The Hotel Tito translator Ellen Elias Bursac
Brookline, MA
7.00pm
Brookline Booksmith
October20

Twice the winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and a Pulitzer Prize finalist, Ted...

Cincinnati, OH
10.00am
Duke Energy Convention Center
October26

Join us at Book Culture LIC on Friday, October 26th at 7pm as Ivana Bodrozic...

Long Island City, NY
7.00pm
BookCulture LIC
November12

Celebrate the release of Project Censored's latest book, Censored 2019: Fighting the Fake...

Petaluma, California
5.30pm
August15

Join us at Elliott Bay Book Company to celebrate the release of 100 TIMES: A MEMOIR OF SEXISM by...

Seattle, WA
7.00pm
Elliott Bay Book Company
August01
Savannah Knoop in London!
London, United Kingdom
9.00pm
Burley Fisher Books
February06

Award-winning journalist & local author J. Malcolm Garcia will be at The Book...

San Diego, CA
7.30pm
The Book Catapult
June17

Recent books by and about refugees have touched readers across Canada and won top literary...

Vancouver, Canada
7.00pm
Vancouver Public Library
September30

The highly anticipated new novel from the winner of the Center for Fiction's First Novel...

United States
7.00pm
Brooklyn Public Library
April22toApril28

Gary Indiana is a novelist, an art critic, a peerless prose stylist, and an unflinching...

New York, NY
Metrograph
November15

We invite you to hear and talk about one of this country’s finest war correspondent’s...

Princeton, NJ
6.00pm
Labyrinth Books
February28

Wednesday, February 28, 2024 - 7:00pm

Politics and Prose
5015 Connecticut Ave NW
Washington, DC...

Washington, DC
7.00pm
Politics and Prose - Connecticut Avenue