March 20
In this excerpt from Solitude & Company, Silvana Paternostro's rollicking oral biography of Gabriel García Márquez, catch a glimpse into Márquez's writing process as he molds what's to become his defining masterpiece.
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February 21
Galvanizing and audacious, these writers push us to think and act with integrity. We hope you explore the richness of our greatest thinkers with the following titles.
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January 31
We sat down with writer and master translator Suzanne Jill Levine at the Seven Stories offices to discuss how she became a translator in the first place, her pioneering book The Subversive Scribe, literalism vs. essentialism in translation, and her work translating Guadalupe Nettel's forthcoming Bezoar and Other Unsettling Stories (2020) and Luis Negrón's brilliant, outrageous Mundo Cruel. A verité interview complete with phones ringing, doors closing, and some warm-up chatter in the beginning. Hope you enjoy!
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January 16
We're proud to announce that Robin Marty's Handbook for a Post-Roe America is out this week. Handbook is a comprehensive and user-friendly manual for understanding and preparing for the looming changes to reproductive rights law, and getting the healthcare you need––by any means necessary. Read about how we got to the situation we're in, and about some possibilities for the future of abortion access, after the jump.
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January 11
On January 15th, we're releasing Barry Gifford's Southern Nights, a collection of three previously published novels, Night People, Arise & Walk, and Baby Cat-Face. It's an odd, hilarious, and touching trilogy. As Alan Cheuse of NPR puts it, "Gifford's night people are pure American . . . pure in their madness . . . in their evil . . . and to read about . . . pure pleasure." Filmmaker David Lynch puts it in his own way: In Gifford's world, "[i]t's wild and free and there's a kind of fearlessness, yet there's also some kind of deep understanding of life." Here exclusive to the Seven Stories Blog is the first chapter from the first book of the trilogy, Night People.
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