Seven Stories Press imprint: 475 books

The Imagination of the Heart

Book Seven of the Story of Sailor and Lula

by Barry Gifford
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011

The Imagination of the Heart is the final chapter in the saga of Sailor Ripley and Lula Pace Fortune, the "Romeo and Juliet of the Deep South." Their story began in Barry Gifford's novel Wild at Heart, which in 1990 was made into a Palme d'Or–winning feature film by David Lynch. Following...

Blood and Soap

Stories

by Linh Dinh
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011

Blood and Soap is a breakthrough collection of modern-day fables from a wildly inventive American writer whose fiction has been called "terse and edgy" (Booklist) and "vividly imagined" (Kirkus Reviews). Dinh's gift is for constructing, in the manner of Italo Calvino, simple narratives...
by Barbara Williams
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016

Handsome Jack is a logger, nomad, and born dreamer. His young wife, Simone, has too many kids and never enough money to support or protect them. The family keeps on the move, shedding a grand total of twenty-seven homes. Their first child, Randy, is sensitive and brilliant and bold, protector of his...

The Hotel Tito

A Novel

by Ivana Bodrozic
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017

The most powerful autobiographical novel written about the Yugoslav wars. A timely and deeply accessible book that speaks to what it is like to be displaced by war. Hotel Tito is an award-winning autobiographical novel of the Serbo-Croatian War. Author Ivana Bodrožić was born in the Croatian...

The Press Gang

Writings on Cinema from New York Press, 1991-2011

by Cheshire Godfrey, Matt Zoller Seitz, Armond White
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2020

A dialogue about cinema's legacy and best directors through essays by three of the best long-form critics out there, collected from the legendary NYPress for the first time. Comprising of the kind of long-form criticism that is all too rare these days, the weekly film columns in the NYPress...
by Barry Gifford
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011

Roy is a lover of adventure movies, a budding writer, and a young man slowly coming of age without the benefit of a father. Surrounding him—whether to support him or to drag him under—is the adult world of postwar Chicago, a city haunted by violence, poverty, and the redeeming power of imagination....

Fake House

Stories

by Linh Dinh
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011

Fake House, the first collection of short stories by poet Linh Dinh, explores the weird, atrocious, fond, and ongoing intimacies between Vietnam and the United States. Linked by a complicated past, the characters are driven by an intense and angry energy. The politics of race and sex anchor Dinh's...
by Christopher Howard
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013

In these six stories, Chris Howard reasserts his talent for evoking the gritty and the apocalyptic with poetic grace. Intelligent People Speaking Reasonably follows two Iraq vets adrift in the civilian life of the Pacific Northwest. Space is Kindness witnesses the unexpected death of...

My Florence

A 70-Year Love Story

by Art Shay
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015

My Florence is a collection of striking moments drawn from the shared life of renowned Chicago photojournalist ART SHAY and his beloved wife, Florence. By turns casual and glamorous, pensive and humorous, the photographs start the day Art and Florence met in 1942, as 20-year-old camp counselors in...
by Avner Mandelman
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011

**Winner of the 2006 American Library Association Sophie Brody Award A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2005** The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has shaped the consciousness of a generation, but never before has it been brought to life in such vivid and telling prose. Part Tim O’Brien and...

Censored 2015

Inspiring We the People; The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2013- 2014

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Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014

Every year since 1976, Project Censored, our nation's oldest news-monitoring group—a university-wide project at Sonoma State University founded by Carl Jensen, directed for many years by Peter Phillips, and now under the leadership of Mickey Huff—has produced a Top-25 list of underreported...

Crossing Borders

Stories and Essays about Translation

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Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018

In Joyce Carol Oates’s story “The Translation,” a traveler to an Eastern European country falls in love with a woman he gets to know through an interpreter. In Lydia Davis’s “French Lesson I: Le Meurtre,” what begins as a lesson in beginner’s French takes a sinister turn. In the essay...

The Walls of Delhi

Three Stories

by Uday Prakash
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014

A street sweeper discovers a cache of black market money and escapes to see the Taj Mahal with his underage mistress; an Untouchable races to reclaim his life that’s been stolen by an upper-caste identity thief; a slum baby’s head gets bigger and bigger as he gets smarter and smarter, while his...
by Vassilis Vassilikos
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018

Greece's most acclaimed living novelist gives us a magical realist portrait of contemporary Europe and contemporary Europeans. Here are seven tales that explore the themes of materialism, post Cold War politics, love, religious faith, and the power of imagination. In the tradition of Gabriel García...
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