F10_catalog_rev2:Layout 1 5/18/10 2:55 PM Page 2 SEVEN STORIES PRESS I FALL/WINTER 2010–11 I RECENT RELEASES Please visit www.sevenstories.com: I complete backlist I 25% discount on all web orders I special offers for K-12 teachers and university professors (www.sevenstories.com/textbook) I tour and event information F10_catalog_rev2:Layout 1 5/18/10 2:55 PM Page 4 RECENT AWARDSandHONORS Once You Go Back Oblomov by Douglas Martin by Ivan Goncharov translated by Marian Schwartz FINALIST, LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD, 2010 SLATE BEST BOOKS OF 2008 Racing While Black by Leonard T. 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R. FYVEL AWARD, 2008 BLOOMSBURY REVIEW EDITORS' FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2008 F10_catalog_rev2:Layout 1 5/18/10 2:55 PM Page 6 Fall/Winter 2010–11 “A SINGING IN EVERY MOMENT AND BETWEEN THE FENCES LOVE LIKE HATE INCH OF ME” Before Guantánamo there was the A Novel The Letters of Barney Simon to Port Isabel Service Processing LINH DINH 10 Lionel Abrahams Center THE ANTI-AMERICAN MANIFESTO BARNEY SIMON 38 TONY HEFNER 62 TED RALL 12 DEEP GREEN RESISTANCE TALK SOFTLY THE TORTURER IN THE MIRROR Strategy to Save the Planet A Memoir RAMSEY CLARK, HAIFA ZANGANA, ARIC McBAY, LIERRE KEITH CYNTHIA O’NEAL 64 and THOMAS EHRLICH REIFER 14 and DERRICK JENSEN 40 THE EMERGENCE OF MEMORY BODY POLITIC STOLEN IMAGES Conversations with W. G. Sebald Dispatches from the Women’s Screenplays and Writings edited by LYNNE SHARON SCHWARTZ 66 Health Revolution RAOUL PECK SAILOR & LULA edited by BARBARA SEAMAN translated by CATHERINE TEMERSON 42 The Complete Novels with LAURA ELDRIDGE 16 WORLD REPORT 2011 BARRY GIFFORD 68 FLYING CLOSE TO THE SUN HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH 44 OVERCOMING SPEECHLESSNESS My Life as a Weatherman TEACHING WITH HOWARD ZINN’S A Poet Encounters the Horror in CATHY WILKERSON 18 VOICES OF A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and CENSORED 2011 THE UNITED STATES AND YOUNG Palestine/Israel The Top Censored Stories of PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE ALICE WALKER 70 2009–10 UNITED STATES JESUS OF NAZARETH MICKEY HUFF, PETER PHILLIPS, GAYLE OLSON-RAYMER 46 PAUL VERHOEVEN and PROJECT CENSORED 20 BIRTH MATTERS translated by SUSAN MASSOTTY 72 SAD STORIES OF THE DEATH INA MAY GASKIN 48 OF KINGS BARRY GIFFORD 22 Recent Releases ELEGY WRITTEN ON A IN OUR CONTROL About Seven Stories Press 75 CROWDED STREET The Complete Guide to Contracep- About Seven Stories Institute 76 tive Choices for Women Seven Stories Staff 77 CONTENTS A Novel Contact Information 78 PETER PLATE 24 LAURA ELDRIDGE foreword by JENNIFER BAUMGARDNER 52 THE SWEETEST THING Inside the World of Women’s Boxing FIDEL MISCHA MERZ 26 NÉSTOR KOHAN with illustrations by NAHUEL SCHERMA ROSE translated by ELISE BUCHMAN 54 INGA MUSCIO 28 GRAND CENTRAL WINTER GOD BLESS YOU, DR. KEVORKIAN Stories from the Street KURT VONNEGUT 30 LEE STRINGER foreword by KURT VONNEGUT 56 LIKE SHAKING HANDS WITH GOD A Conversation about Writing BAD SHOES AND THE WOMEN KURT VONNEGUT and LEE STRINGER 32 WHO LOVE THEM LEORA TANENBAUM THE KILLING GAME illustrated by VANESSA DAVIS 58 The Writings of an Intrepid Investigative Reporter TERRORISM AND THE ECONOMY GARY WEBB How the War on Terror is edited by ERIC WEBB 34 Bankrupting the World LORETTA NAPOLEONI 60 MAMA’S BOY A Novel RICK DEMARINIS 36 F10_catalog_rev2:Layout 1 5/18/10 2:55 PM Page 8 FALL/WINTER 2010–11 F10_catalog_rev2:Layout 1 5/18/10 2:55 PM Page 10 LOVE LIKE HATE A Novel Linh Dinh auded for his incisive short prose and poetry, Linh Dinh brings Lto his long-awaited first novel, Love Like Hate, an alphabet soup of characters struggling through the fall of Saigon and all that fol- lowed. Spiraling around the relationship between café owner Kim Fiction • September 2010 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • 240 pages • Trade Paperback Lan and South Vietnamese army captain Hoang Long, who marry $16.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-909-5 APAPERBACKORIGINAL in Saigon during the Vietnam War, Dinh describes his mushroom- ing cast of characters in unsentimental and sometimes absurd ways. A vivid palette for his idiosyncratic characters and dark, deadpan Praise for Linh Dinh: humor, Love Like Hate embraces contradictions with the surreal “[Linh] Dinh’s abrupt epiphanies mix A.D.D. with Thoreau’s economy, exuberance of Matthew Sharpe and the stylistic élan of Italo Calvino’s globe-trotting, and a pungent eroticism reminiscent of Kawabata’s Calvino. Palm-of-the-Hand Stories.” —Village Voice “[Linh Dinh’s Blood and Soap] owes a certain debt to Jorge Luis Borges, but uses Borgesian metafiction and genre-bending to depict a sense of absurdity, confusion, and displacement peculiar to being a contemporary world citizen.” —Matthew Sharpe, Brooklyn Rail “[Linh] Dinh reveals a refreshing sense of utter irreverence and experimental fun.” —AsianWeek A recipient of the Pew Fellowship, the David T. Wong Fellow- ship, and the Asian American Literary Award, LINHDINH is the author of two collections of stories, Fake House and Blood and Soap, one of the Village Voice’s best books of 2004; and four books of poems, All Around What Empties Out, American Tatts, Border- less Bodies, and Jam Alerts. He is editor of the anthologies Night, • Author Events: New York • Philadelphia Again and Three Vietnamese Poets. Love Like Hate is his first novel. © Brian Doan 10 SEVEN STORIES PRESS 11 F10_catalog_rev2:Layout 1 5/18/10 2:55 PM Page 12 THE ANTI-AMERICAN MANIFESTO Ted Rall n arguably his most radical book, cartoonist/columnist Ted Rall Ihas produced a new manifesto for an America heading toward economic and political collapse. While others mourn the damage to the postmodern American capitalist system created by the recent Politics • September 2010 5 x 7 • 160 pages • Trade paperback 10 illustrations global economic collapse, Rall sees an opportunity. As millions of $13.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-933-0 APAPERBACKORIGINAL people lose their jobs and their homes, they and millions more are opening their minds to the possibility of creating a radically differ- ent form of government and economic infrastructure. Praise for Ted Rall But there are dangers. As in Russia in 1991, criminals and right- “Rall is known first and foremost for his political cartoons, but, man, wing extremists are best prepared to fill the power vacuum from a he knows how to tell a story, too.” collapsing United States. The best way to stop them, Rall argues, is —Publishers Weekly not collapse—but revolution. Not by other people, but by us. Not “As tangible and real of a story as was ever put on paper. Raw, honest and completely visceral, [The Year of Loving Dangerously] is a in the future, but now. book for the ages.” —Comics Waiting Room “This great book lays the foundation for the revolution we all know is necessary. This is the book we’ve all been waiting for. Pick this book up. Read it. And then get ready to fight back.” —Derrick Jensen A Pulitzer Prize finalist and twice the winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, TEDRALL is a syndicated political car- • Author appearances and book signing at Comic-Con toonist, opinion columnist, graphic novelist, and occasional war correspondent whose work appears in hundreds of publications, • Features in Left Turn magazine and the Village Voice including the NewYork Times, the Washington Post, the VillageVoice, and the Los AngelesTimes. • Promotion targeting graphic novel and leftist publications • Promotion through the author’s Web site: www.rall.com Courtesy of Ted Rall 12 SEVEN STORIES PRESS 13 F10_catalog_rev2:Layout 1 5/18/10 2:55 PM Page 14 THE TORTURER IN THE MIRROR Ramsey Clark, Haifa Zangana, and Thomas Ehrlich Reifer efore the US invasion of Iraq, before the American public saw Bthe infamous photos from Abu Ghraib, the CIA went to the White House with a question: what, according to the Constitution, Current Events / Politics • September 2010 5 x 7 • 80 pages • Trade paperback was the line separating interrogation from torture—and could that $8.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-919-4 APAPERBACKORIGINAL line be moved? The White House lawyers’ answer—in the form of legal documents later known as the “torture memos”—became the US’s justification for engaging in torture.