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Through the weekend, celebrate Ralph Nader’s 92nd birthday with some extracts from his book RETURN TO SENDER, plus a 30% off discount on of his books! @nader.org
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Nader at the capitol, 1980-something

Nader on a plane reading a newspaper, 1960-something

Today we’re celebrating 92 years of our friend, author, and favorite public advocate Ralph Nader, born on February 27, 1934 💛

Guest Post: Hal Schrieve on the Fight to Fund NYC Libraries The Seven Stories author and librarian makes the case for prioritizing library funding

“Library institutions should not be regularly put on the chopping block while Wall Street brokers take home millions… Our city deserves a budget that focuses on the people here… That is what makes NYC great.” —Librarian & Seven Stories author @halschrieve.bsky.social on the fight for NYC libraries

i read the first 13 chapters of the call out without speaking to another person or coming up for air and then my mom asked me a question and i had trouble parsing it because it didnt rhyme

Did you know if you post a g**gle f*rms link on X The Everything App it will be spammed to the point of total unusability and you will have to rebuild your whole galley launch minutes after posting it. Just a tip from me to you

Grid of available galleys from Seven Stories Press

New form for online creators to request galleys

It certainly doesn’t feel like it this week, but summer will, in fact, arrive. We’ve just received galleys of six spring/summer 2026 titles we’re absolutely psyched about. Grab your favorites and start daydreaming of beach reading days. forms.gle/D6Lpv6ywkaia...

…and invited him to describe what has been happening in Palestine through the stories of his family—how his relatives were pushed off their land, how they came to live in Gaza, and how they joined the collective fight to preserve Palestinian land, culture, and collective memory.” (4/4)

…that is widely regarded to be one of the most visible and most documented atrocities of modern history. But this kind of documentation, while extremely important for historical record, can only do so much. As acquiring editor Greg Ruggiero writes: "We at Seven Stories approached Ramzy Baroud… (3/4)

In sharing this account, Baroud offers a personal antidote to the dehumanizing nature of numbers and attention-grabbing headlines released by the media. For the past three years, we've watched from abroad, culpable in our complicity, as Israel has executed a genocide of the Palestinian people (3/4)

To mark the publication of Ramzy Baroud's Before the Flood: A Gaza Family Memoir, we're proud to share Baroud's introduction to the text, a history of Palestine told through a beautiful multigenerational narrative of the author's family. sevenstories.com/blogs/408-th... (1/4)

REVIEW COPIES REVIEW COPIES GET THEM WHILE THEY'RE ADVANCE

DEAR BLUESKY I just sent an email out to I think everyone I have ever met I know being like LMK IF YOU WANT GALLEY OF MY NEW BOOK// if U have met me (or even if U haven't) and U did not get said email but would like one pls msg me or @wanlittlehusk.bsky.social and we will MAKE IT HAPPEN

[town crier voice]:
GALLEYS GALLEYS GET YOUR GALLEYS OF ABSURD VERSE NARRATIVE ABOUT LOVE HERE FRESH GALLEYS

ENLIGHTENED TRANSSEXUALS AND THEIR FRIENDS OF BLUESKY:

I am putting together my galley list for THE DINNER PARTY! If you are interested in receiving a copy (as you all should be), dm me here or email me at lou@sevenstories.com and I will add you to the list

TGS

I made a lil playlist for THE GRIEF SHOP, coming out in June from @sevenstories.bsky.social.

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Picture of THE NEW HUEY P. NEWTON READER

Quote from Huey: The ideas will always be among the people. The prison cannot be victorious because walls, bars, and guards cannot conquer or hold down an idea.

Celebrate his life and work with 30% off THE NEW HUEY P. NEWTON READER, edited by David Hilliard and Donald Weise with a new introduction by Elaine Brown
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Huey Newton looking effortlessly cool in a very chic apartment

Revolutionary icon and Black Panther Party co-founder Dr. Huey P. Newton was born on February 17, 1942 🎂

Variously Hideous: On Krisztina Tóth’s “Eye of the Monkey” - Cleveland Review of Books stalked by something incomprehensible and menacing.

"A self-described exile, Toth fled Hungary after a public smear campaign was launched against her, for the “crime” of suggesting the introduction of certain inclusive books into schools' curricula, and the removal of more regressive others."

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Happy to report copies of this have just arrived in the @sevenstories.bsky.social office! Please reach out if you're a reviewer or bookseller interested in a copy.

Valentine of Octavia Butler, captioned: YOU MAKE ME FEEL! FEEL! FEEL!

Valentine of Annie Ernaux, captioned: I’m Getting Lost in your eyes

Valentine of Angela Davis, captioned: Let’s radically transform the world together

Valentine of Kurt Vonnegut, captioned: Valentine: if this isn’t nice, what is?

Some love notes for you, from all of us here at Seven Stories. Get 30% off our Valentines favorites here: www.sevenstories.com/blogs/406-30...

Romanian Literature, Foreign Address: Romania at the London Book Fair 2026 | RCI London For Romania’s 16th participation at the London Book Fair (LBF), the Romanian Cultural Institute presents a diverse programme about distance, movement and literary belonging.

3 days of Romanian authors and events to coincide with London Book Fair, featuring @monicacure.bsky.social Istros Books @deepvellum.bsky.social and @sevenstories.bsky.social and even myself as a translator. Hope to see you there!
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Certified Horny in the Gift Guide of Record 🖤

I have 3 books coming out between this June & September 2027.

The Grief Shop & Other Stories from a Broken World - June 2026, @sevenstories.bsky.social

The Living Copy, September 2026 (tentatively), @traumbooks.bsky.social

Through the Boondocks and Back (tentatively Sept 2027)

Our staff picks for February 2026 Recommendations from the staff at Seven Stories

in 2026, we are giving you a taste of our taste, as they say. Find out what your favorite radical publishers read to try to feel something, what they listen to to cry on the train, what snacks they eat while composing tweets (last one coming next month) sevenstories.substack.com/p/our-staff-...

“Unlike anything I've ever read! Already one of my favorite books of the year. I will be recommending this strange, beautiful, riveting novel to every person I know.” —Amali Gordon-Buxbaum, Books Are Magic

FIELD NOTES FROM AN EXTINCTION by @eoghanwalls is an Indie Next Pick for March 2026! Reviewers, reach out to us for copies of the novel booksellers are calling “Bizarre, but weirdly enjoyable.” (Britton Pietz, Townie Books)

11 Books That Confront and Interrogate the Violence of a Class Society I helped create and run the media non-profit Economic Hardship Reporting Project, which the late great Barbara Ehrenreich founded. In a time of journalism lay-offs, newsroom shut downs and right-wi…

"the best of these kinds of books reject the bootstraps myth that individuals “escape” grinding poverty via personal merit, and those who remain simply haven’t worked hard enough. Jettisoning these myths is a step towards confronting the real violence of a class society"

YouTube video by ericvonalien Fidel's Moral Vest

cigar in mouth, delighted giggling. that sparse little thicket of chest hair. a moral vest!! god what i wouldn’t have done…

to this day the central erotic emblem of my life is that video of fidel castro grinning and undoing his shirt to show that he doesn’t bother wearing a bulletproof vest even though the CIA keeps trying to kill him

Abolition is the only way forward: A Reading List

A timely selection of writings on the prison industrial complex, the militarization of police, and what we can do to stop it, feat. books by Angela Davis, Che Guevara, Sonali Kolhatkar, Ulrike Meinhof, and more.
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32 people died ***that we know of***