had a vivid dream that TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA was based on a 2021 French novel and the cover looked like this:
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Our Women In Translation Month sale is on now, which means it’s time for some CUSTOM BOOK RECS! Let us know what you’re into and we’ll find the WiT title for you, all at 25% off
Taking the #SealeyChallenge this month? Here are our favorite weird, wonderful and (most importantly) short books of poetry
It’s Women in Translation Month! To celebrate, we’re offering 25% off translated books by women authors. Here are just a few of the books we’re highlighting in our sale. sevenstories.com/blogs/385-ce...
ACID GREEN VELVET by @gracekrilanovich.bsky.social releases 9/8/26 from @twodollarradio.bsky.social @sevenstories.bsky.social @prhlibrary.bsky.social #surreal #nihilism #fathers #ManifestDestiny #identity #BookSky get your @libraryreads.bsky.social votes in by 8/1!
Now available to read on @inthesetimes.com, an exclusive excerpt from BREAKING ICE by Sonali Kolhatkar (@ruwithsonali.bsky.social), publishing next month.
The People Fighting Back: Inside Maine’s Immigrant Defense Movement
An excerpt from 'Breaking ICE' on how Maine became the blueprint for an immigration defense movement that caught fire in the Trump era.
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Gary Indiana: "omitting much of what we expect in first-person narratives, Adler gets at the overfull yet depleted condition we find ourselves in now, peripatetic and restless, ever more deprived of the time and mental space to reflect on what we are really doing, or who we really are."
Seven Stories Press@sevenstories.bsky.social · 3w agoPeak Attitude: Gary Indiana on Renata Adler “Attuned to the wrong word, the malapropism, the gauche remark, the fatuous rejoinder, she finds something wildly skewed, insensible, ominous, untenable, intolerable, or at least a little off in nearly every situation.” sevenstories.com/blogs/423-pe...
Saturday, you can win signed copies of "Here Where We Live Is Our Country" (@oneworldbooks.bsky.social/ @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social) by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social and "Terms of Servitude" (@sevenstories.bsky.social) by @omarzahzah.bsky.social at the This is Hell! Listener Appreciation Party!
LG Literary's Keletso Mopai, whose debut novel WE BELONG TO THE TREES is out in November with @sevenstories.bsky.social, was featured in @publisherswkly.bsky.social as a Fall 2026 Writer to Watch — congratulations Keletso! Read the full feature here ⤵️
Falll 2026 Writers to Watch: Keletso Mopai
The legacy of apartheid in South Africa shaped the author’s debut novel, 'We Belong to the Trees.'
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Peak Attitude: Gary Indiana on Renata Adler “Attuned to the wrong word, the malapropism, the gauche remark, the fatuous rejoinder, she finds something wildly skewed, insensible, ominous, untenable, intolerable, or at least a little off in nearly every situation.” sevenstories.com/blogs/423-pe...
Gary Indiana on Renata Adler…life is so beautiful open.substack.com/pub/sevensto...
Peak Attitude: Gary Indiana on Renata Adler
A 2013 essay from the late critic, novelist, and essayist
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Very grateful to @ronslate.bsky.social for the opportunity to write about the late Argentine author Vlady Kociancich’s 1982 debut, out in English for the first time as THE EIGHTH WONDER translated by Jessica Sequeira. It’s a playfully ambiguous novel about which I had a great time (over?)thinking.
on The Eighth Wonder, a novel by Vlady Kociancich, translated from the Spanish by Jessica Sequeira – On the Seawall
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When ICE raids reached Maine, neighbors responded with hotlines, school rides, grocery runs, legal trainings and rapid-response networks. @ruwithsonali.bsky.social reports on a community refusing to let fear win.
The People Fighting Back: Inside Maine’s Immigrant Defense Movement
An excerpt from 'Breaking ICE' on how Maine became the blueprint for an immigration defense movement that caught fire in the Trump era.
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OH LOOK IT"S ME ON LITHUB being a DORK like usual lithub.com/platos-sympo...
Plato’s Symposium Is Actually About Love
I have been obsessed with dinner parties since I was eight or nine. At this age my greatest desire was to get my mum to let me stay up for the ones she threw for her friends. Once I even succeeded.…
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It was an honor to be invited by Kirkus to talk about my new adaptation of Ned Blackhawk's book, soon to be published by @sevenstories.bsky.social. The Q&A will appear in the July 1 print edition of Kirkus. www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-fea...
America at 250: Rebecca Stefoff Reflects | Kirkus Reviews
The YA author adapted Ned Blackhawk’s ‘The Rediscovery of America’ for young readers.
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BREAKING NEWS: “Horse Crazy” by Gary Indiana is finally back in stock on Seven Stories Dot Com
new books I bought during @sevenstories.bsky.social recent sale! The other two are new release from the UK small press isolarii and a new translation from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social. 📚✨
José Martí spent much of his short life outside Cuba, preparing a struggle to liberate his country from Spanish colonialism. The ideas and example of Martí would inspire a second struggle against US neocolonial domination after his death.
José Martí Inspired Cuba’s Fight for True Independence
José Martí spent much of his short life outside Cuba, preparing a struggle to liberate his country from Spanish colonialism. The ideas and example of Martí would inspire a second struggle against US neocolonial domination after his death.
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Annual reminder that your favorite bookstore isn’t an ICE collaborator.
Some things you can only read in print: Annie Ernaux’s “The Memory of Rooms and Other Places,” in the Summer 2026 Issue. Order a copy:
Summer 2026 Issue
Our Summer 2026 Issue. Two pieces by Annie Ernaux: entries from her unpublished journals and an essay, available in print only. Also: a folio titled "What Was AI?" — asked in the past tense because...
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Today’s the last day to shop our biggest sale of the year. Take up to 70% off all books we publish, including the very best of Annie Ernaux, Che Guevara, Nelson Algren, Octavia Butler, Abdellah Taia, Gary Indiana, Cat Fitzpatrick, Robert Graves, Alex DiFrancesco, and more. sevenstories.com
Tiny haul from the 7Stories Press sale. Looking forward to reading The Rabbits’ Rebellion with my kiddo. It sounds relevant, sadly. The Nettel is a mystery but has blurbs from Luiselli and Schweblin. So I’m excited to try it. (Ty @sevenstories.bsky.social!)
Two-Dollar radio has added a "100% Human Made No A.I." stamp to their covers starting this fall and I am fucking here for it. All publishers should start doing it
“I am back in writing [about our summer sale] hell. As if each time I start writing [about how all our books are up to 70% off], I have to go through the same hell again.” —Annie Ernaux www.sevenstories.com/blogs/306-su...
