SEVEN STORIES PRESS 140 Watts Street New York, NY 10013 BOOKS FOR ACADEMIC COURSES 2019 COURSES ACADEMIC FOR BOOKS SEVEN STORIES PRESS STORIES SEVEN SEVEN STORIES PRESS PRESS STORIES SEVEN BOOKS FOR ACADEMIC COURSES 2019 Dear colleagues, The world of the printed word is topsy-turvy as ever, with journalism and free speech under threat from all sides. So perhaps the time is now to make sure our house is in order. According to the Chinese Zodiac, 2019 is the Year of the Pig, the twelfth and last animal in the calendar. Though the pig came last in the mythological race that determined the order of the animals, he still became known as the luckiest among them, with a genial and peaceful nature the world could not resist. We begin 2019 by calling to your attention, on our nonfiction list, Peter Phillips’s Giants: The Global Power Elite, a sober and painstaking look at the world’s 1%, which Noam Chomsky calls “a remarkable inquiry . providing detailed and often shocking revelations about the astonishing concentration of private wealth and corporate power.” Then there’s Robin Marty’s Handbook for a Post-Roe America, a comprehensive and user-friendly guide for understanding and preparing for the looming changes to reproductive rights law, and getting the healthcare you need—by any means necessary. Also new this year is 100 Times: A Memoir of Sexism from Chavisa Woods, a powerful personal account of one-hundred instances of harassment, sexism, and assault, that will be a perfect fit English and Gender Studies courses alike. Aric McBay’s two-volume Full Spectrum Resistance: Building Movements and Fighting to Win is a monumental tome that is both an encyclopedia of resistance movements and a guide to how to build on what has been learned by rebels of yore. On the fiction list, we’re pleased to announce a new novel from one of today’s leading Croatian novelists, Robert Perišić’s No-Signal Area, which American novelist Nell Zink calls “a mind-blowing read.” Also arriving in late 2019 is the new title from Guadalupe Nettel, who is fast establishing herself as a force to be reckoned with in her native Mexico and around the world. Fresh from winning the prestigious Herralde Novel Prize, she’s back with a new slyly surreal collection, Bezoar and Other Unsettling Stories. Staying south of the border, March marks the publication of Silvana Paternostro’s Solitude & Company: The Life of Gabriel García Márquez Told with Help from His Friends, Family, Fans, Arguers, Fellow Pranksters, Drunks, and a Few Respectable Souls, the subtitle of which pretty much says it all. And speaking of pranksters, we’re excited to be bringing back into print Run Run Run: The Lives of Abbie Hoffman, a poignant examination of all the contradictions that made Abbie so compelling, penned by his brother Jack Hoffman and Seven Stories publisher Dan Simon. To cap it all off, we’ve got a new Kurt Vonnegut title coming in November: Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style. Compiled and edited by co-author Suzanne McConnell, Vonnegut’s longtime friend and former student at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Pity the Reader contains just about everything Kurt Vonnegut ever said or wrote about the art and craft of writing. The only real pity is that readers will have to wait till November to grab a copy. So it goes. As always, our policy at Seven Stories 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 books and answer your questions. And don’t forget to check out our website at www.sevenstories.com for teaching guides, special offers, and more. Best, Noah Kumin SEVEN STORIES PRESS TRIANGLE SQUARE SIETE CUENTOS EDITORIAL BOOKS FOR ACADEMIC COURSES 2019–2020 “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, With an economy of words and provocative illustrations, The as well as anyone interested in mass incarceration and the US Dead Eye and the Deep Blue Sea tells a relentlessly dishearten- justice system.” ing true story, albeit with a miraculous ending, about human — Mieka B. Polanco, Department of Sociology and trafficking in the fishing industry in Southeast Asia. Anthropology, James Madison University —Dr. Paul R. Abramson, Professor of Psychology, UCLA and Tania L. Abramson, Lecturer in the Honors Collegium, UCLA “Each year’s Censored volume is a wonderful book to assign to students. The books are clearly written and hard-hitting. Their Picking up where C. Wright Mills left off with his invaluable appealing format helps open up even the most hardened student dissection of the “power elite” that used to run America alone, to the ideas of corporate and government manipulation. From Phillips thoroughly identifies the members of the “transnational there the professor can introduce students to the alternative capitalist class” that largely runs the world today. For anyone media. In just four words, Censored is a real eye-opener.” who wants to know precisely where we are today, and why—and — Levon Chorbajian, Sociology, University of Massachusetts who knows that we can and must go somewhere else—Giants is Lowell a book to read, and recommend, right now. —Mark Crispin Miller PhD, Professor Media Studies, New “Thanks to Seven Stories Press I get to teach political writings York University 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 and International Affairs 127 NEW AND BACKLIST TITLES The State of Humanity: