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The Old Garden
Hwang Sok-Yong
Undoubtedly the most powerful voice of the novel in East Asia. — Kenzaburo Oe
Political prisoner Hyun Woo is freed after eighteen years to find no trace of the world he knew. His Seoul is unrecognizably transformed, aggressively modernized, and Yoon Hee, the woman he loved, died three years ago. In The Old Garden, Hwang Sok-yong grapples with the immortal questions—the endurance of love, the price of a commitment to causes—while depicting a generation that sacrificed its youth, liberty, and often life for the dream of a better tomorrow.
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Daybreak
David Swanson
“David Swanson’s Daybreak impressively exposes all the ways our government has changed for the worse under the Bush administration, and makes clear that we need to do far more than elect a new president to see our tattered Democracy restored.” — Vincent Bugliosi
Special Items
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The Old Garden: First Five Chapters
“Undoubtedly the most powerful voice of the novel in East Asia.” — Kenzaburo Oe on Hwang Sok-Yong, author of The Old Garden
A serialization of the first five chapters of Hwang Sok-yong’s The Old Garden ran on this site from September 1 to November 3, 2009. Click the book cover to read it from the beginning.
Seven Stories Spotlight 
As The World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do To Stay In Denial
“A great read, a groundbreaking volume of graphic literature and a political polemic of the first order.” — Ted Rall
Presenting the color webcomic edition of As The World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do To Stay In Denial by Derrick Jensen and Stephanie McMillan. New pages go up on Tuesdays and Thursdays of every week.
Click the thumbnail image to read the most recent page.
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(Like what you read? Can’t wait to see what happens next? Help support this project by picking up a copy of the original graphic novel from Seven Stories Press.)
In the News 
TheQueerist interviews Sabrina Chapadjiev
March 10, 2010
Courtney Gillette: … Is there a queer sensibility to your music/your performances? How would you describe it?
Sabrina Chapadjiev: Well, all of the songs off the album are about exes, which have been women, so in that sense, yes, there is a queer sensibility there. Although it sort of surprised me that some people haven’t gotten that [my songs are queer]. I play with one particular band quite a bit—they open up for me and I open up for them. The main singer knows I’m queer, and finally he was like, “But you don’t say that in your songs.”
Now, there are songs where I straight up am talking about a woman— I mean, I couldn’t get more specific in “Idiom.” But then there are songs like “Little White House,” where I have the lyric:
A kid on the way
due sometime in May
we’ll dance in the kitchen while the radio plays
You’ll bring home the bacon
I’ll try a new recipe
In our little white house with a key
I was like, “Oh. . . I guess I could see why you were confused. . . but I was still talking about a girl there. I just like butch girls. And I like to cook.” He was like, “Oh.”
Sonia Shah: TED conference lecturer exploits African women & children
March 9, 2010
From Sonia Shah’s article at Ms. about Nathan Myhrvold and the idea of using lasers to eliminate malaria in Africa:
… At the annual techno-hip TED conference in February, Myhrvold decided to up the ante, tapping into the misery of millions of rural African women and their families to wrap his business in a cloak of moral urgency. “Every 43 seconds a child dies of malaria,” he told the crowd. And current anti-malaria interventions, many of which target the rural African women and children who are malaria’s main victims, don’t work that well, he said. Insecticides can be environmentally dangerous and some people use anti-mosquito bednets to catch fish instead.
That’s why Myhrvold came up with his latest invention: A mini-”Star Wars” weapons system that tracks mosquitoes in the air and shoots them down mid-flight–with lasers, of course. Like a Death Ray. All you need to make one is a Blu-ray player and a laser printer, plus a few months of processing time on a supercomputer, and voila!: you’re on your way to eradicating malaria in Africa for good.
Oh. My.
Multimedia 
Ralph Nader at Montgomery College: Can Someone Super-Rich Save Us?
From February 2010, here’s Ralph Nader at Montgomery College speaking about his first work of fiction, Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us, about the future of activism, and about the power of imagination.
Web Spotlight
Straight Up with Jan Herman
Jan Herman’s Straight Up: a blog about books, about arts, about the media, and about the culture at large, and one that isn’t afraid to have a human voice. Herman waxes rhapsodic on Nelson Algren, finds the hidden parallels between William Burroughs and the blockbuster “Watchmen” film, and in general separates what’s true from what’s bullshit. For all their claim to individuality, blogs are often anything but individual; Jan Herman’s is an exception.
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