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BOOKS FOR ACADEMIC COURSES SEVEN STORIES PRESS PRSRT2018 STD 140 Watts St U.S. POSTAGE PAID New York, NY 10013 FON DU LAC, WI PERMIT NO. 317 BOOKS FOR ACADEMIC COURSES 2018 SEVEN STORIES PRESS STORIES SEVEN SEVEN STORIESPRESS Dear friends, “I would have to thank the God of irony,” says Michael Wolff, author of Fire and Fury, “if this presidency were to be brought down by a book.” Wishful thinking, but it does seem more and more that a war is on between the life of the mind (slow, contemplative, flexible, oriented toward the truth) and the life of the public sphere (breakneck, pathological, rigid, and full of lies). And it could well be that the battle lines will be drawn along the spine of a book. Not as quick as a tweet or a newsfeed, but with the power to layer thought upon thought, word upon word, propelling the mind, through complex- ity and flair, toward unknown realms of pleasure, analysis and imagination. Consider Annie Ernaux’s just-released masterpiece, The Years, described by Edmund White in The New York Times Book Reviewas “a Remembrance of Things Past for our age of media domination and consumerism, for our period of absolute commodity fetishism.” Or take Paul Auster’s A Life in Words: Conversations with I. B. Siegumfeldt, in which one of America’s iconic novelists walks the reader through his creative process: “I understood that everything comes from within and moves out,” Auster says, “the material itself will find its own form as you’re working through it.” Then there’sMiles & Me by Quincy Troupe, a complex and intimate memoir of the author’s friendship with Miles Davis. Complex and intimate are the right words, too, to describe Horse Crazy and Gone Tomorrow, two early novels by Gary Indiana coming in September that chronicle the vagaries of human desire in the Age of AIDS. And coming in January 2019, Southern Gothic never looked better than it does in Barry Gifford’s Southern Nights, three Southern Gothic novels of murder and mayhem. David Van Reybrouck’s Against Elections, which argues for democracy in which leaders are drawn by lot, is a political book in the best sense—with an eye not only to the contemporary moment but informed by the past (Athenian Greece) and with a vistion of a sustainable future. Ted Rall’s Francis: The People’s Pope tells the story of the most progressive spiritual leader in the Roman Catholic Church’s history: Along with Rall’s author graphic biographies, it is even-handed and accessible—the perfect teaching tool. Malaika wa Azania’s Memoirs of a Born-Free pulls the rug out from under the convenient notion that all is well in post-Mandela South Africa. Derrick Jensen’s Anarchism and the Politics of Violation takes a critical look at the dark side of a philosophy that supposedly eschews oppression. Francesca Borri’s Destination Paradise draws attention to a dystopian nightmare more ominous than fiction: the sunny island nation of the Maldives, where rich tourist resorts and an impoverished lower class are separated by a peculiarly modern apartheid. And we’d be remiss not to mention Noam Chomsky’s 2017 bestseller, Requiem for the American Dream, the preeminent book on income inequality in the U.S. Finally, as the perfect exemplar of uniting the literary with the political and the historical, we introduce the Graves Project. Robert Graves was one of the giants of 20th century English poetry, but he was much else, too. A chronicler of Greek and Hebrew myths, a devious spinner of true crime yarns, an author of children’s books: These are among the different hats Graves wore. We’re proud to be re-releasing fourteen major titles from the Graves backlist over the next several years, with new introductions and designs. These are just some of what’s new in the pages that follow. Read and enjoy. At Seven Stories, our policy is to provide free examination copies of all our books in the field in which you teach, without any obligation on your part to adopt the book. Just write to me at [email protected]. I’ll be happy to send you the books and answer your questions. Best, Noah Kumin SEVEN STORIES PRESS TRIANGLE SQUARE SIETE CUENTOS EDITORIAL BOOKS FOR ACADEMIC COURSES 2018–2019 “I used Ted Rall’s Snowden in a very special class I’ve been “I love The Graphic Canon as a sequential art enthusiast. I have teaching in which students read comics but also create their own put forward the challenge for decades for the academic world to webcomic based on an oral history. I wanted to offer them exam- take a serious look at graphic literature and its intersection with ples of cartoonists who have conducted extensive research and critical literature only to be told over and over that there was ‘no interviews in order to reconstruct the events and experiences of a value in “funny books” and their attempts at literature.’ Seven real person’s life. We are looking at Joe Sacco, Art Spiegelman, Ed Stories Press has proven them all wrong. Add to this the fact that Piskor, and Harvey Pekar as well.” it isn’t the same old ‘dead white European guys’ canon, and you’ve —Patricia Akhimie, Department of English, Rutgers University got a winner. - Newark — Tony O’Seland, Languages and Literature Department, Northeastern State University Snowden was very useful in the class, and it dovetailed nicely with our discussions of the ethics (and technics) of surveillance “The Autism Puzzle was my first foray into what Seven Stories and more classic visions of authoritarianism, such as Orwell’s in Press has to offer, and I certainly plan to come back for more! As 1984. The class approached the topic of Edward Snowden from the librarian, I am very happy that even students outside of our the point of view that his role in history is currently debatable: medical program are interested in this book because the topic is whether he is a hero or a traitor. While the students were able to so relevant and “ripped right from the headlines.” Seven Stories tell that Ted Rall was on the side of viewing Snowden as a hero, Press books will definitely continue to be on the ‘Recommended they did agree that Rall’s presentation of facts was clear enough Reading’ lists at my school!” that it also allowed the students to make their own conclu- — Constance Woodward, LMT, Librarian, Institute of sions about Snowden’s likely legacy. In all, it was very useful for Technology our discussions, and I think that the students also enjoyed the graphic novel format. “In Sleepaway School, Lee Stringer reaches for your hand in the —Glenn W. Muschert, Sociology and Social Justice Studies, preface, and then never lets go. The result is an intimate walk Miami University, Ohio through his pages, the distance between you and young Caverly so blurred, you are not only with him, but inside his skin, looking I am using Harriet Alonso’s text Martha and the Slave Catchers through his eyes.” in my social studies methodology course for undergraduates. I —Ann Nierporent, MFA Student, Manhattanville College am modeling ways of using this text for elementary and middle school classrooms so as to engage young readers in understand- “Are Prisons Obsolete? is an eye-opening, lucid, and provocative ing U.S. history— particularly at the time of slavery. This story expose of the American prison system today. This powerful little provides multiple entry points for teaching issues related to social book packs a powerful punch. In five short chapters Angela Y. justice, individual agency, and adolescent resiliency within a Davis exposes the fundamental problematics of our current defined historical context. prison system: its inherent racism, sexism, and classism; its —Catherine Franklin, School of Education, The City College troubling connection with capital gain; its tenuous relationship of New York to justice; and its disturbingly rapid growth in recent years. This book is excellent for both undergraduate and graduate students, as well as anyone interested in mass incarceration and the US justice system.” — Mieka B. Polanco, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, James Madison University “Each year’s Censored volume is a wonderful book to assign to students. The books are clearly written and hard-hitting. Their appealing format helps open up even the most hardened student to the ideas of corporate and government manipulation. From there the professor can introduce students to the alternative media. In just four words, Censored is a real eye-opener.” — Levon Chorbajian, Sociology, University of Massachusetts Lowell “Thanks to Seven Stories Press I get to teach political writings from Arabic and Francophone literatures to American students. Algerian White was my first experience teaching a book by Assia Djebar and although it was challenging, the memoir was the right choice for thinking through violence in the colonial and post-colonial contexts. Such books are of great help in introduc- ing students to historical events they are unfamiliar with.” — Mona Kareem, Instructor at Binghamton University, Comparative Literature Program The State of Humanity: Peace, Justice, NEW AND BACKLIST TITLES and Human Rights 126 BY SUBJECT Autodafe 127 Human Rights Watch 128 SEVEN STORIES PRESS Religion and Philosophy 130 Afr icana Studies, African American Sociology 132 and American Studies 8 Teaching and Education Studies 134 Lee Stringer Collection 12 Wellness, Health, and Psychology 136 American Literature 15 Gary Null 136 Algren Library 19 Psychology 140 Kate Braverman 21 World Literature 141 Octavia Butler 22 Martha Long 141 Linh Dinh 25 Assia Djebar 145 Barry Gifford 27 Ariel Dorfman

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