Seven Stories Press

New titles for May

The House of Moses All-Stars will be available now in paperback, May 15th. It is the story of an all-Jewish basketball team traveling in a hearse through Depression-era America in search of redemption and big money. A hilarious road novel, The House of Moses All-Stars is a passionate portrayal of a young Jewish man, Aaron Steiner, struggling to realize his dreams in a country struggling to recover its ideals.

The long-awaited Graphic Canon, Volume 1 will finally be in bookstores everywhere on May 22nd. The classic literary canon of Western civilization meets the comics artists, illustrators, and other artists who have remade reading in the last years of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first century in Russ Kick’s magisterial, three-volume, full-color The Graphic Canon. Volume 1 takes us on a visual tour from the earliest literature through the end of the 1700s. Visit GraphicCanon.com for reviews by the Wall Street Journal, Kirkus Reviews, Publisher’s Weekly, and interviews with the hundreds of contributors.

In author J. R. Helton’s hilarious Drugs, available May 22nd, Jake inimitably narrates the ups and downs of being a functional user of marijuana, cocaine, MDMA, alcohol, nicotine, brand name hydrocodone, and countless other drugs readily available and commonly partaken of in modern America. The contemporary heir of William S. Burroughs’s classic Junky, J. R. Helton’s novel Drugs shows us–through sly wit, deceptively powerful prose, and the unmistakable ring of truth–a side of America that most of us allow to remain hidden in plain sight.

A Man’s Place, in paperback on May 29th, tells the story of Annie Ernaux’s father who died exactly two months after she passed her practical examination for a teaching certificate. Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labor, Ernaux’s father had grown into a hard, practical man who showed his family little affection. Narrating his slow ascent towards material comfort, Ernaux’s cold observation reveals the shame that haunted her father throughout his life.