Seven Stories Press Fall 2013 Catalog by Veronica Liu

Seven Stories Press 140 Watts Street New York, NY 10013

seven stories press Fall 2013

Seven Stories Press 140 Watts Street New York, NY 10013 Tel: (212) 226-8760 Fax: (212) 226-1411 www.sevenstories.com Seven Stories Press is an independent book publisher based in New York City. We publish works of the imagination by such writers as Nelson Algren, Russell Banks, Octavia E. Butler, Ani DiFranco, Assia Djebar, Ariel Dorfman, Coco Fusco, Barry Gifford, Martha Long, Luis Negrón, Hwang Sok-yong, Lee Stringer, and Kurt Vonnegut, to name a few, together with political titles by voices of conscience, including Subhankar Banerjee, the Boston Women’s Health Collective, Noam Chomsky, Angela Y. Davis, Human Rights Watch, Derrick Jensen, Ralph Nader, Loretta Napoleoni, Gary Null, Greg Palast, Project Censored, Barbara Seaman, Alice Walker, Gary Webb, and Howard Zinn, among many others. Seven Stories Press believes publishers have a special responsibility to defend free speech and human rights, and to celebrate the gifts of the human imagination, wherever we can. In 2012 we launched Triangle Square Books for Young Readers with strong social justice and narrative components, telling personal stories of courage and commitment. For additional information, visit www.sevenstories.com.

contents 1491 Una nueva historia de las Américas antes de Colón charles c. mann

Operation Massacre rodolfo walsh

Arctic Voices Resistance at the Tipping Point subhankar banerjee

Stop Breast Cancer Before It Starts samuel s. epstein, md

The Minimum Security Chronicles Resistance to Ecocide stephanie mcmillan

Fight the Power! A Visual History of Protest Among English-Speaking Peoples sean michael wilson and benjamin dixon

Censored 2014 Fearless Speech in Fateful Times The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2012–3 mickey huff and dr. andy lee roth with project censored

The Graphic Canon Boxed Set edited by russ kick

The Roy Stories barry gifford

Landscape with Traveler The Pillow Book of Francis Reeves barry gifford

“A Singing in Every Moment and Inch of Me” Letters from Barney Simon to Lionel Abrahams barney simon and lionel abrahams

Minecraft The Unlikely Tale of Markus “Notch” Persson and the Game that Changed Everything linus larsson and daniel goldberg

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Stop Here

A Novel beverly gologorsky

The Walrus and the Elephants John Lennon’s Years of Revolution james a. mitchell

The Shadow of Arms A Novel hwang sok-yong

Overpowered The Dangers of Electromagnetic Radiation and What You Can Do About It martin blank, phd

Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes A Memoir of Dublin in the 1950s martha long

Ma, I’m Gettin’ Meself a New Mammy A Memoir of Dublin in the 1960s martha long

Triangle Square Editions

A is for Activist innosanto nagara

The Story of the Blue Planet andri snÆr magnason

Trevor A Novella james lecesne

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Seven Stories Staff and Contact Information

Recent Awards and Honors

1491

Una nueva historia de las Américas antes de Colón

Ch a r l e s C. M a n n

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR Time Magazine • Boston Globe • Salon.com • San Jose Mercury News • Discover Magazine • Amazon.com • San Francisco Chronicle • USA Today • New York Sun • A New York Times Notable Book of the Year —————— New York Times Bestseller • San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller • Boston Globe Bestseller • Book Sense Bestseller • Washington Post Bestseller Spanish-language edition of the 2005 national bestseller—finally available to the audience it most directly concerns. In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492. Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, huge numbers of Indians actively molded and influenced the land around them, in ways that we are only now beginning to understand. Challenging and surprising, 1491 is a transformative new look at a rich and fascinating world we only thought we knew. CHARLES C. MANN covers the intersection of science, technology, and commerce for many publications, including National Geographic, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Science, and Wired. Since 1491, Mann has published a New York Times bestselling follow-up volume, 1493. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Siete Cuentos editorial August 13, 2013 TR • $22.95 6" x 9" • 640 pages 978-1-60980-515-9

“A journalistic masterpiece.” —The New York Review of Books “Marvelous.” —The New York Times Book Review “In the tradition of Jared Diamond and John McPhee, a transforming new vision of pre-Columbian America.” —Richard Rhodes

• Academic outreach and mailing

Operation Massacre

Rod ol fo Wa l sh foreword by M ich a e l Gr e e n be rg a f ter word by R ic a r d o P igl i a t ra nsl ated f rom t he Spa nish a nd w it h a t ra nsl ator’s note by Da n i e l l a Gi t l i n

The first English-language edition of Latin America’s most influential work of literary nonfiction. Operation Massacre tells the story of Rodolfo Walsh’s investigation into the Argentine state’s secret—and botched—execution of a group of civilians in 1956. Walsh vividly recreates the night of the crime, profiling each of the victims with the moral bite of a man outraged by the inhumanity and injustice of his time. Operation Massacre is Latin America’s most defining work of literary and political nonfiction—a book that embodies the rare combination of literary ambition, social criticism, historical documentation, and compassion. Grouped in his time among Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Julio Cortázar, and Adolfo Bioy Casares—all of whom read and respected him—RODOLFO WALSH wrote crime fiction before publishing Operación Masacre. After Masacre, Walsh wrote more books on true crimes that had been committed and not prosecuted and became increasingly involved in the political struggles of the time. In 1972 Walsh updated Operación Masacre for the fourth and final time before joining the radical Peronist group, the Montoneros, the following year. A day after submitting his now famous 1977 “Open Letter from a Writer to the Military Junta”, included here as an appendix, Walsh was “disappeared” by the state.

August 13, 2013 TR • $16.95 5.5" x 8.25" • 252 pages 978-1-60980-513-5 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-514-2

“Walsh not only exposes a terrible crime with precise and haunting prose, but establishes, many years before Capote and Mailer, a whole new genre of personal investigative journalism that transcends its immediate circumstances.” —Ariel Dorfman “All of [Walsh’s] work demonstrates . . . his commitment to reality, his almost implausible analytical talent, his personal bravery, and his political ferocity.” —Gabriel García Márquez

• Events in new york and pittsburgh with translator • academic outreach to latin american history and literature courses • Arcs available • presence at bea and ala conference

Arctic Voices

Resistance at the Tipping Point

Su bh a n k a r b a n e r j e e

The battle for our environmental future is being fought in Alaska’s seas. World-renowned photographer, writer, and activist Subhankar Banerjee brings together first-person narratives from nearly forty of the world’s most recognized activists, writers, and researchers to address issues of climate change, resource wars, and human rights with stunning urgency and groundbreaking research. With a new essay by James Hansen, Artic Voices also features contributions from Peter Matthiessen, Terry Tempest Williams, Michael Klare, John McPhee, and many more. SUBHANKAR BANERJEE is an Indian-born American photographer, writer, and activist. His academic appointments have included visiting Scholar at the University of Utah, artist-in-residence at Dartmouth College, distinguished visiting professor at Fordham University, and director’s visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Seasons of Life and Land, Banerjee’s first book of photography, became a surprise hit after Senator Barbara Boxer invoked it during Senate debate on Arctic drilling. In 2010, he founded ClimateStoryTellers.org. He lives in Port Townsend, Washington.

August 20, 2013 TR • $23.95 6" x 9" • 560 pages 978-1-60980-496-1 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-386-5

“One of the great strengths of Arctic Voices is that it shows how Alaska and the Arctic are tied to the places where most of us live. In this impassioned book, Banerjee shows a situation so serious that it has created a movement . . . May his heartfelt efforts magnify them.” —ian frazier, The New York Review of Books

• first serial of new piece by james hansen available • photo excerpts available • print and online marketing in mother jones magazine • giveaway on goodreads and library thing

Stop Breast Cancer Before It Starts S a m u e l S. e ps t e i n, MD

From a leading authority: new and straightforward guidelines to prevent breast cancer. With pink buckets of Kentucky Fried Chicken, “I’m here for the boobs” T-shirts, and a pink ribbon celebrity dunk tank on The Ellen Degeneres Show, a Mardi Gras culture has arisen around a deadly disease. Yet the statistics of breast cancer remain the same. Cancer expert Samuel S. Epstein knows the steps that can be taken to prevent breast cancer, which, despite their simplicity, rarely make the headlines. Here, preventative choices are carefully and accessibly outlined. Stop Breast Cancer Before It Starts empowers women to take charge of their health and make a real difference in the fight against cancer. Dr. Samuel S. Epstein, a distinguished research scientist and leading activ-

ist against the cancer establishment, has appeared on Sixty Minutes, Face the Nation, Meet the Press, Good Morning America, and the Today Show to discuss the causes and prevention of cancer. Author of eleven books including The Politics of Cancer, he is currently a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois School of Public Health, and Chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition.

August 20, 2013 TR • $19.95 5.5" x 8.25" • 288 pages 978-1-60980-488-6 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-489-3

Praise for Dr. Epstein’s The Breast Cancer Prevention Program: “This book is more than a remarkable study. It is a prescription that may save your life.” —Studs Terkel

• excerpt available: issuu.com/sevenstories/docs/stopbreastcancer

The Minimum Security Chronicles Resistance to Ecocide

St e ph a n i e m c m i l l a n foreword by T e d R a l l

From the winner of the 2012 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. The Minimum Security Chronicles is a graphic novel telling the story of a group of friends who try to save the world from ecocide. As the five main characters attempt to fight back in various ways against the system that’s killing the planet, they advocate different strategies and test them out, discovering their limitations through experience. The strengths and flaws of the different characters push them to respond in different ways to various situations. Will the handcuffed prisoners escape before the bomb goes off? What happens when surveillance cameras catch our protagonists in the act? Will they be able to stop secret plans for geo-engineering? Stephanie McMillan’s cartoons have appeared in hundreds of publications worldwide including the Los Angeles Times, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Daily Beast, Yes! magazine, San Francisco Bay Guardian, plus many textbooks and anthologies.

September 17, 2013 TR • $16.95 7.5" x 6" • 160 pages 978-1-60980-511-1 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-512-8

“Minimum Security is like oxygen for our suffocating times.” —Vandana Shiva, author of Soil Not Oil “McMillan’s expressive style, pared down to the basics and intensified over the years, allows for instant communication of thoughtful rage.” —Comics Journal “This is social satire at its wittiest and most engaging.” —Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States • presence at major comics conventions: Mocca, Toronto comics arts festival, small press expo, new york comic con, brooklyn zine fest • author tour includes stop at miami book fair • author op-ed pieces in alternative media to coincide with pub date

Fight the Power!

A Visual History of Protest Among English-Speaking Peoples

Se a n M ich a e l W i l son a nd Be nja m i n Dick son i l lust rated by H u n t Em e r son , Joh n Spe l l i ng , A da m pa s ion , a nd p oly p

A history of revolutionary transformation in comics form. According to Gandhi, the Four Stages of Protest are as follows: First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. Then you win! Fight the Power! shows how this process has been played out again and again throughout history—and has slowly but surely led to hard-won rights for the people along the way. Focusing on the English-speaking nations, Wilson and Dickson chronicle the struggles of the Luddites and Swing Riots in the early 1800s through the Irish Rebellions that lasted through 1922; from the suffragettes in 1918 to Rosa Parks and the bus boycott of the mid-1950s; from the trial of Nelson Mandela to the Occupy movement that has only just begun. By illuminating the variety of protests—and the valuable connections among them—through an accessible art form, Fight the Power! shows that there is a point to the struggle, fight by fight, win by win. SEAN MICHAEL WILSON has written fourteen books of comics and manga, in-

cluding Parecomic: Michael Albert and the Story of Participatory Economics, published by Seven Stories Press in 2013. Benjamin dickson is a writer whose previous works include the apocalyptic

graphic novel Falling Sky (awarded “Best Indie Surprise 2006” and named one of the best graphic novels of the decade by Ain’tIt Cool News), and the science fiction thriller Slumdroid, currently being published by Scar Comics. He has had short stories published by Self Made Hero, Ctrl Alt Shift and Heavy Metal, and also worked on 1001 Graphic Novels to Read Before You Die.

September 24, 2013 TR • $19.95 6" x 9.875" • 192 pages 978-1-60980-492-3 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-493-0

â&#x20AC;˘ presence at major comics conventions: Mocca, Toronto comics arts festival, small press expo, new york comic con, brooklyn zine fest â&#x20AC;˘ reviews and excerpts in alternative publications

Censored 2014

Fearless Speech in Fateful Times The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2012–3 ed ited by Mickey Huff w it h Dr. a nd project Censored foreword by Sar ah van Gelder i l lust rated by Kh alil bendib

Andy Lee Roth

America’s leading annual collection of censored news stories. Every year since 1976, Project Censored, our nation’s oldest news-monitoring group, has produced this digest, which contains the stories that ought to be top features on the nightly news, but that are missing because of media bias and self-censorship. Seven Stories Press has been publishing this yearbook since 1994. Censored’s chapters delve deeply into the most timely media topics and include annual updates, signs of hope in the alternative and news media, and the state of media bias and alternative coverage around the world. A perennial favorite of booksellers, educators, and news junkies of all ages, Censored is an important chance for us to get the news we need—despite what Big Media tells us. PROJECT CENSORED, founded in 1976 at Sonoma State University, has as its principal objective the advocacy for and protection of First Amendment rights, including freedom of information. In 2008, Project Censored received the PEN/ Oakland Literary Censorship Award. MICKEY HUFF is the director of Project Censored and an associate professor of

history and social science and area co-chair in history at Diablo Valley College. He is the co-host of the Project Censored radio show on KPFA’s The Morning Mix.

October 1, 2013 TR • $16.95 5.5" x 8.5" • 288 pages 978-1-60980-494-7 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-495-4

“Project Censored brings to light some of the most important stories of the year that you never saw or heard about. This is your chance to find out what got buried.” —DIANE RAVITCH, author of The Death and Life of the Great American School System

• Prepublication announcement of top 25 censored stories • author events in northern california • national launch event with kpfa radio • promotion during banned book week through ABA • original videos for top five censored news stories

The Graphic Canon, Boxed Set ed ited by

Rus s K ick

Today’s comics artists take on the world’s literary legacy. In this first anthology of its kind in comics history—over 1,600 full-color, oversized pages across three volumes—Russ Kick presents over 150 of the artists and illustrators who have begun to redefine literature for a new century with their takes—by turns inventive, thoughtful, dazzlingly exuberant, and subversive—on the entire library of the world. RUSS KICK ’s bestselling anthologies, including You Are Being Lied To and Every-

thing You Know Is Wrong, have sold over half a million copies. The New York Times has dubbed Kick “an information archaeologist,” Details magazine described Kick as “a Renaissance man,” and Utne Reader named him one of its “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World.” Russ Kick lives and works in Nashville, Tennessee, and Tucson, Arizona. “Powerful . . . fascinating . . . breathtaking. Every page sends you further down the rabbit hole . . . These works of literature . . . flourish in the eye of our imagination.” —The New York Times Book Review

October 1, 2013 box • $125.00 1,600 pages 978-1-60980-383-4

“These . . . pages . . . contain more intelligence, wit, and savvy social commentary than anything else I have read in a long time. It is an amazing work. It is wild. It is dirty at times. It is nothing short of beautiful.” —New Straits Times

• Full-color poster included in boxed set • full page, full-color ad in publishers weekly magazine • presence at major comics conventions: Mocca, Toronto comics arts festival, small press expo, new york comic con, brooklyn zine fest • holiday promotion

Boswell’s London Journal • James Boswell • adapted by R. Crumb

“The graphic publishing literary event of the year.” —Publishers Weekly “Bold, brilliant. . . . By turns playful and beautiful, this visual treatment is more than entertainment; it offers a new perspective for understanding these enduring works.” —Reader’s Digest TR • $39.95 8.5" x 10.875" • 512 pages 978-1-60980-376-6

Vo lu m e 1 The Epic of Gilgamesh • The Iliad • The Odyssey • The Aeneid • Beowulf • The Divine Comedy • The Canterbury Tales • Paradise Lost • R. Crumb’s rarely-seen adaptation of James Boswell’s London Journal • religious literature including the books of Daniel, Esther, and Revelation; the Tao te Ching; Rumi’s Sufi poetry; Hinduism’s Mahabharata • The Tale of Genji • Tibetan Book of the Dead • a Japanese Noh play • Shakespeare’s King Lear and A Midsummer Night’s Dream • Gulliver’s Travels • Candide • A Vindication of the Rights of Woman • Don Quixote

Three- and Four-panel Reviews • adapted by Lisa Brown

“Startlingly brilliant.” —School Library Journal “This meaty slab is laced with more wit, beauty, social commentary and shock than one might expect. . . .” —Kirkus Reviews TR • $39.95 8.5" x 10.875" • 512 pages 978-1-60980-378-0

Vo lu m e 2 Edgar Allan Poe’s visions • Huckleberry Finn • Shelley, Keats, and Byron • The Brontë Sisters • “Kubla Khan” and “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” • Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra and Darwin’s On the Origin of Species • Frankenstein • Moby-Dick • Les Misérables • Great Expectations • Middlemarch • Anna Karenina • Crime and Punishment • Thoreau’s Walden • “The Drunken Boat” by Rimbaud • Leaves of Grass by Whitman • Two of Emily Dickinson’s greatest poems • The Picture of Dorian Gray • Pride and Prejudice • Alice in Wonderland • “Jabberwocky” • “The Hunting of the Snark” • Venus in Furs • The Hasheesh Eater • Der Struwwelpeter 23

“You can’t judge Mr. Kurtz as you would an ordinary man.”

Heart of Darkness • Joseph Conrad • adapted by Matt Kish

“Absolutely the most ambitious book I’ve picked up this year.” —sam thielman, Newsday “This is not only a survey of the world’s diverse artistic past, but also a breathtaking glimpse of this young medium’s incredible future.” —Booklist (starred review) TR • $44.95 8.5" x 10.875" • 576 pages 978-1-60980-380-3

Vo lu m e 3 A Sherlock Holmes mystery • H. G. Wells • The Beats • Anaïs Nin’s Diaries • Black Elk Speaks • The Man With the Golden Arm • T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and “The Waste Land,” • Yeats’s “The Second Coming” • Heart of Darkness • Kafka • The Voyage Out • Ulysses • Lolita • The Age of Innocence • Siddhartha and Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse • Langston Hughes • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest • Last Exit to Brooklyn • Animal Farm • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz • 1984 • Brave New World • Waiting for Godot • One Hundred Years of Solitude • The Bell Jar • On the Road • Lord of the Flies • The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle • R. Crumb’s adapation of Nausea • Blood Meridian • The Great Gatsby • Slaughterhouse-Five • among many others

The Roy Stories B a r ry Gi f for d

Nostalgic and yet never far from the violence and absurdidty of the adult world, Gifford’s stories about the boyhood of Roy are unlike any others. For forty years, The Roy Stories has represented the one continuous line in the otherwise kaleidoscopic career of one of America’s greatest living writers. Collected here for the first time, the Roy stories of Barry Gifford chronicle his personal history of a time and place dear to him and familiar to all. Similar in structure and tone to Ernest Hemingway’s Nick Adams stories, Barry Gifford’s slices of life cut to the heart and the bone. “Nearly every Gifford story opens a Pandora’s box of uncontainable emotions,” wrote Richard Dyer in the Boston Globe. “There’s no one like Barry Gifford, which is the best reason to read him.” BARRY GIFFORD is the author of more than forty published works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, which have been translated into twenty-eight languages, including Wild at Heart, which was adapted by director David Lynch for the 1990 film of the same title. His most recent books are Sailor & Lula: The Complete Novels, Sad Stories of the Death of Kings, and Imagining Paradise: New and Selected Poems. Gifford lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. More at www.barrygifford.com.

October 1, 2013 TR • $16.95 5.5" x 8.25" • 432 pages 978-1-60980-497-8 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-498-5

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“The way Barry Gifford lets people talk articulates everything about their unfamiliar inner lives, and ours.” —Boston Globe “Gifford is a master.” —Los Angeles Times “Gifford, a master of the short story and nasty vignette, can sum up in a few words the cruely, horror, and crushing banality that shape an entire life.” —New York Times Book Review

• arcs available, giveaway at ala conference • author tour to new york, chicago, and san francisco • excerpt available at issuu.com/sevenstories/docs/roystories

Landscape with Traveler The Pillow Book of Francis Reeves

B a r ry Gi f for d

In print for the first time in fifteen years: the first full-length novel by Gifford. Written in the form used by the classic Japanese writer Sei Shonagon in her Pillow Book—short, essayistic stories or tales woven around a central moral— this landscape is the self-portrait of a gay man, who, often swept away by passion in his youth, approaches his later years with increasing distance and an almost Zen-like tranquility. First published in 1979, Landscape with Traveler is the only one of Gifford’s novels with a gay protagonist, and yet at the same time lays bare the themes that have marked Gifford’s career: a Beat-inspired frenzy of love, a passion for life, a generation-defining embrace of the craziness of the world in all its splendor.

October 1, 2013 TR • $13.95 5" x 8" • 160 pages 978-1-60980-499-2 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-500-5

d y t b or in r pr f f ste i in g n Ma ck B a y ic a r rmer

“Gifford cuts right through the heart of what makes a good novel readable and entertaining. . . . The way Barry Gifford does it, it’s high art.” —Elmore Leonard “Barry Gifford invented his own American vernacular—William Faulkner by way of B-movie film noir, porn paperbacks, and Sun Records rockabilly.” —Jonathan Lethem on Sailor & Lula

• promotion/tie-in with The roy Stories at ala conference • author tour to New york, chicago, san francisco • excerpt available at issuu.com/sevenstories/docs/landscapewithtraveler

“A Singing in Every Moment and Inch of Me”

The Letters of Barney Simon to Lionel Abrahams

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An intimate coming-of-age story told in letters. Set in the 1960s in Johannesburg, London, and New York, and told in a young theater director’s letters home to a friend who is a struggling novelist, here is the true story of the friendship between two of South Africa’s national treasures, one a creator of plays and mentor to a generation of South African actors, the other a novelist, story writer, and editor. Barney Simon (1932–1995) was the legendary artisitic director, writer, and co-creator of the Market Theatre in Johannesburg, South Africa. Armed with little more than the conviction that culture can change society, the Market Theatre challenged the apartheid regime, and became recognized as one of the world’s most influential, distinguished theaters. The World in an Orange: Making Theater with Barney Simon, was published by Seven Stories Press in 2006.

As a poet, essayist, critic, editor, and publisher, lionel abrahams (1928– 2004) devoted his life to creative writing and the encouragement and promotion of literay talent in South Africa. He founded and edited three literay magazines including the The Purple Renoster, was the publisher of Renoster Books, and ran Bateleur Press with poet Patrick Cullinan. He edited the texts of his mentor, Herman Charles Bosman, which is arguably his most notable contribution to South African literature before becoming an influential figure for his own works.

October 29, 2013 HC • $23.95 5.5" x 8.25" • 176 pages 978-1-60980-442-8 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-443-5

â&#x20AC;˘ Excerpt available: issuu.com/sevenstories/docs/barneysimon

Minecraft

The Unlikely Tale of Markus “Notch” Persson and the Game that Changed Everything

Da n i e l G ol dbe rg

a nd l i n us l a r s son t ra nsl ated f rom t he Swed ish by J e n n i f e r H aw k i ns

The first book on the independent videogame that topped them all. In 2010, thirty-two-year-old Markus “Notch” Persson was an unknown computer programmer in Stockholm. Today, he is an international icon. Minecraft, the “virtual Legos” game Markus crafted in his free time, has become one of the most talked-about activities since Tetris, with 30 million die-hard fans around the world, 6.5 million of them on Facebook. Minecraft: The Unlikely Tale of Markus “Notch” Persson the Game that Changed Everything is a personal history and a business history—a Cinderella story for the Internet age. It is the story of unlikely success, fast money, and the power of digital technology to rattle an empire. And it is about creation, exclusion, and the feeling of not fitting in. But above all it is the story of the fine line between seeming misfit and creative madman, and the birth of a tech visionary. Linus Larsson and Daniel Goldberg write books about computer hackers.

They have been published in several Swedish newspapers, the Washington Post and American Computer World and quoted in the BBC News, New York Times, and Sydney Morning Herald.

November 5, 2013 HC • $21.95 5.25" x 7" • 256 pages 978-1-60980-537-1 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-538-8

• arcs available • cross-promotion with mojang • book trailer featuring authors and creator of minecraft • author tour to new york, chicago, seattle, san francisco

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35 “Notch is God” by Unsterbliicher och Kigyar69

Stop Here A Novel

Be v e r ly G ol o g or sk y

The long-awaited second novel from the author of The Things We Do to Make it Home. Ava, Mila, and Rosalyn all work at Murray’s Diner on Long Island. While Ava grieves the loss of her husband in the first Iraq War, Mila struggles to dissuade her daughter from enlisting in the second. Rosalyn works as an escort by night until love and illness conspire to disrupt the tenuous balance she’d found. But ultimately it is love that sustains them through a world with no easy answers. With a supremely human sympathy for the triumphs and defeats of everyday life, Beverly Gologorsky delivers an incisive story about healing in the shadow of seemingly endless war. beverly gologorsky is the author of the acclaimed novel The Things We Do to Make it Home, originally published by Random House in 1999, reissued by Seven Stories in 2009, named a Notable Book by the New York Times, Best Fiction by Los Angeles Times, and a finalist for the Barnes and Noble Discover Great Writers Award. Her work has appeared in anthologies and magazines, including the New York Times, Newsweek, The Nation, and the LA Times. Former editor of two political journals, Viet-Report and Leviathan, noted for her historical contribution in Feminists Who Changed America, Gologorsky has contributed essays to Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from all Sides and The Friend Who Got Away: Twenty Women’s True-Life Tales of Friendships that Blew Up, Burned Out or Faded Away, among others. She lives in New York and Maine.

November 19, 2013 TR • $16.95 5.25" x 8" • 256 pages 978-1-60980-504-3 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-505-0

“Unflinching, piercing . . . Stop Here is filled with an array of characters whose bravery is unsung, until Gologorsky pulls the curtain back and allows us in.” —Elizabeth Strout, author of The Burgess Boys

• arcs available, ala conference giveaway • author event in new york • whitebox mailing to indie booksellers • promotions to women’s book clubs and librarians

The Walrus and the Elephants John Lennon’s Years of Revolution

Ja m e s a . m i t ch e l l

Based enitrely on new interviews and research, the first book about John Lennon to show how his emergence as a solo artist, his embrace of radical politics and feminism, and his love affair with New York City coincided. In late 1971, John Lennon left London behind and moved to New York, eager to join a youth movement rallying for social justice and an end to the Vietnam War and to embark on a new artistic journey post-Beatles. It was a busy time of making music, controversial TV appearances, and Lennon’s last full-length concert at Madison Square Garden . . . and the beginning of a new era. The Walrus and the Elephants is told by a cast of friends and fellow travelers who saw the man behind the Beatle. Exclusive interviews include Gloria Steinem; congressional black caucus cofounder Ron Dellums; “Chicago Seven” veteran Rennie Davis; counterculture icon Paul Krassner; and legendary poet-activist John Sinclair. The Walrus and the Elephants is a look back by those who fought the fight; he was a dreamer, but he wasn’t the only one. James A. Mitchell is the author of several books, including a biography of

Detroit rocker Mitch Ryder. He spent a decade in New York and has written for Entertainment Weekly among other publications.

December 3, 2013 HC • $26.95 6" x 9" • 352 pages 978-1-60980-467-1 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-468-8

• arcs available • author tour to michigan and chicago • excerpt available at: issuu.com/sevenstories/docs/walrusandelephants • photo excerpts available

The Shadow of Arms

h wa ng sok-yong t ra nsl ated by Ch u n K y u ng - Ja foreword by Pa i k N a k- ch u ng

The Vietnam War as you’ve never heard it told before. A novel of the black markets of the South Vietnamese city of Danang during the Vietnam War, based on the author’s experiences as a self-described South Korean mercenary on the side of the South Vietnamese, this is a Vietnam War novel like no other, truly one that sees the war from all sides. Scenes of battle are breathtakingly well told. The plot is thick with intrigue and complex subplots. But ultimately The Shadow of Arms is a novel of the human condition rather than of the exploits and losses of one side or the other in war. Hwang Sok-yong is the author of nine works of fiction that have been best-

sellers and prize-winners in his native Korea. His work, which grapples with the troubled history of his divided country, has been the cause of his imprisonment, his exile, and the rare achievement of a wide international readership and now sells hundreds of thousands, sometimes millions, of copies in his native Korea.

December 17, 2013 TR • $18.95 6" x 9" • 512 pages 978-1-60980-507-4 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-508-1

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It was in the eighties that I published the work that would mark the end of the first half of my literary career: The Shadow of Arms. The Shadow of Arms is an attempt to reveal both the surface appearance and inner workings of the phenomenon of war. America’s Vietnamese “intervention,” which came on the heels of their activities in the Philippines, was simply a move calculated to expand their imperialistic market control to include the rest of Southeast Asia. War was considered to be the quickest, most efficient means of achieving this end: in essence, the war itself was a kind of business being conducted on a rather grandiose scale. As such, The Shadow of Arms uses the back alley black markets of the Vietnam War as its stage, a market that turns into a setting more fitting than any jungle to discover and explore the core of the war. The more we learn about the system that was used to circulate US Army munitions, the closer we can come to understanding the true nature of the war. Truly, if there is one thing that must make a deeper impression on the hearts of the Vietnamese than the victorious outcome of their war for independence, it can only be the painful memories of all that was lost in order to achieve that very victory. For this alone, over my ten years of exile and incarceration, watching the world change around me, I felt remorse. —Hwang Sok-yong

Overpowered

The Dangers of Electromagnetic Radiation and What You Can Do About It

M a rt i n Bl a n k , P h D

The truth about the medical risks of cell phones, wifi, and electromagnetic fields. Keys, wallet, cell phone . . . ready to go! Cell phones have become ubiquitous fixtures of twenty-first-century life—suctioned to our ears and stuck in our pockets. Yet, we’ve all heard whispers that these essential little devices give you brain cancer. Many of us are left wondering, as Maureen Dowd recently asked in the New York Times, are cells the new cigarettes? Overpowered brings readers, in accessible and fascinating prose, through the science, indicating biological effects of radiation (levels considered safe by regulatory agencies). Radiation that comes not only from cell phones, but many other devices we use in our homes and offices every day. Dr. Blank arms us with the information we need to lobby government and industry to keep ourselves and our families safe. Martin Blank earned his first PhD from Columbia University in physical

chemistry and his second from the University of Cambridge in colloid science. From 1968 to 2011, he taught as an Associate Professor at Columbia University, where he now acts as a special lecturer.

January 14, 2014 HC • $23.95 5.5" x 8.25" • 256 pages 978-1-60980-509-8 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-510-4

“Reads like an environmental thriller! Dr. Blank does a superb job of explaining the biological effects of cell phones and all things wireless on cell physiology and how to protect ourselves—an inconvenient truth we must consider.” —Ann Louise Gittleman, PhD “A must for anyone concerned with protecting [his] well-being, that of loved ones, and other species. From the personal, the political, and the planetary, you will never see things the same way again.” —B. Blake Levitt, author of Electromagnetic Fields, A Consumer’s Guide to the Issues and How to Protect Ourselves • excerpt available at: issuu.com/sevenstories/docs/overpowered • social media campaign featuing infographics from book

Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes A Memoir of Dublin in the 1950s

M a rt h a L ong

A wrenching memoir of a 1950s Dublin childhood, told in ravishing brogue. In a book that is both heartbreaking and deeply humorous, the first of Long’s seven books on her life, here is Martha as a young girl: Born to a teenage mother in the slums of Dublin, she quickly learns to use her mischievousness, courage, and wit to get her through the most desperate situations, never giving up hope that a better life exists for her. She rarely goes to school, spends days going shop to shop stealing butter, begs for food and clothes from the convent, and does all she can to steer clear of her stepfather, Jackser (“that bandy ‘aul bastard”). She is nine. She is filthy, lice-ridden, outcast. And yet she tells it all with the quiet appetite for joy of a true storyteller. Martha Long was born in Dublin in the 1950s, raised three children there,

and still lives there today. Her #1 bestselling “Ma” books have sold hundreds of thousands of copies in the UK.

January 28, 2014 TR • $16.95 5.5" x 8.25" • 480 pages 978-1-60980-503-6 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-415-2

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“Reading this startling testament to one child’s valiant attempts to live until the age of sixteen (four years to go!) is a worthy reminder that we can do better as adults if we turn to embrace the children who are suffering, anywhere on earth, who are coming toward us, their numbers increasing daily, for help.” —Alice Walker, from the introduction

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Ma, I’m Gettin’ Meself a New Mammy A Memoir of Dublin in the 1960s

M a rt h a L ong

The second book in the bestselling “Ma” septet. After numerous arrests for shoplifting, Martha is sent to the convent where, the judge rules, she is to get an education. Martha is relieved to be out of the clutches of her horrible drunken stepfather, Jackser, and her feckless mother, Sally, but anxious about what awaits. Put to back-breaking work by the nuns, and treated cruelly by the other children, Martha works hard, keeps to herself, and steals away when she can with a cherished book. She must find her own way. She is thirteen. Virtually uneducated, Martha Long is a natural-born storyteller, her voice as unique as the characters—funny, dark, despairing, and hope-filled. Born in Dublin, where she still lives today, Martha Long is the author of the seven “Ma” books, recounting her life from decade to decade, all of which have been #1 bestsellers in Ireland. She calls herself a “middle-aged matron,” and has happily raised three children.

March 11, 2014 HC • $23.95 5.5" x 8.25" • 352 pages 978-1-60980-501-2 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-502-9

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“A tale of strength, bravery and sheer determination of not letting life beat you.” —Irish Post “Beautifully written and packed with detail. Miraculously, Martha is attuned to the simple wonders of the world around her: a BBC radio music program, young nuns having a snowball fight. It’s a world she is determined to become a part of just as soon as she is old enough to flee.” —The Cleveland Plain Dealer

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A is for Activist

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Start ’em young! A is for Activist is an ABC board book written and illustrated for the next generation of progressives: kids who want to grow up in a world that is safe, where activism, environmental justice, civil rights, and LGBTQ rights are respected. The alliteration, rhyming, and vibrant illustrations make A is for Activist exciting for children, while the issues it brings up resonate with their parents’ values of community, equality, and social justice. This engaging little book carries huge messages as it inspires hope for the future, and calls children to action while teaching them a love of books. Innosanto Nagara was born and raised in Indonesia and moved to the US

in 1988 to study zoology and philosophy at UC Davis. He worked as a graphic designer for a range of social change organizations before founding the Design Action Collective, a worker-owned cooperative design studio in Oakland, California. A is for Activist is Inno’s first book. After Inno self-published to great acclaim and amazing sales in the fall of 2012, he decided to bring this book to Seven Stories in early 2013. “Full of wit, beauty, and fun, we can think of no better way to learn the alphabet.” —Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis

November 5, 2013 Board • $9.99 5.5625" x 5.5625" • 28 pages 978-1-60980-539-5 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-540-1

“Fun, funny, exquisitely illustrated and brilliantly written with a message that is sure to resonate with kids. May a thousand young activists bloom!” —Medea Benjamin, cofounder of Global Exchange and Code Pink “I wish this beautiful and inspiring book was around when my daughter was young, but fortunately there are plenty of cool children around today who will devour what Inno is serving up!” —Dan Zanes, Grammy Award winning musician for Catch that Train!

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“A beautiful, moving, funny, original book is rare at any time. Trevor is not only a book, it’s an important book.” —Michael Cunningham

Trevor A Novella

Ja m e s l e ce sn e An anti-bullying, LGBTQ-supportive piece of fiction with an IT GETS BETTER message, Trevor mixes humor and realism in an urgent look at what it is like to feel alienated from everything around you.

“This book will save your life and make you laugh and rejoice that you are different.” —Eve Ensler August 6, 2013 TR • $9.95 5.5" x 8.25" • 112 pages 978-1-60980-487-9 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-421-3

“In the tradition of Roald Dahl and Maurice Sendak, Magnason’s story celebrates the ferity and fearlessness of childhood. . . . a Seussian mix of wonder, wit, and gravitas.” —New York Times Book Review

The Story of the Blue Planet

A n dr i Sn Æ R m agn a son i l lust rated by á sl aug Jónsd ó t t i r t ra nsl ated by J u l i a n M e l d on D’A rc y Andri Snær Magnason is one of Iceland’s most celebrated young writers.

The Story of the Blue Planet—now published or performed in twenty-two countries—was the first children’s book to receive the Icelandic Literary Prize and was also the recipient of the Janusz Korczak Honorary Award and the West Nordic Children’s Book Prize. “Dahl-like wit [makes] this a memorable and provocative tale.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

November 26, 2013 TR • $9.95 5.5" x 8" • 136 pages 978-1-60980-506-7 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-429-9

Recent Awards and Honors The Graphic Canon

Ina May Gaskin

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author of birth matters

Publishers Weekly Top 10 Graphic Books of the Season “The graphic literary publishing event of the year!”

Winner of the Right Livelihood Award, 2011

A New York Times Book Review “Editor’s Choice” Honorable Mention for “Comics World’s 2012 Graphic Novel Critics’ Poll” (Vols. 1 & 2) Brain Pickings Best Graphic Novels of 2013 (Volume 2) Great Reads in Store: Indie Booksellers Pick 2012’s Best (NPR) Suzanne Jill Levine

translator for mundo cruel

Winner of the 2012 PEN Center USA Translation Award

God Breaketh Not All Men’s Hearts Alike stanley moss

Winner of the Pushcart Prize for “Song of No God” Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion? johan harstad

Named a Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction title of 2011 Named one of Electric Literature’s Most Beautiful Books of the Year, 2011 Tea of Ulaanbaatar

christopher r. howard

LoveStar

Chicago Center for Literature and Photography’s Best Small Press Wonder, 2011

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author of the night wanderers

andri snÆr magnason

Wojciech Jagielski

The Story of the Blue Planet

Special Achievement, Grand Press Award (Poland), 2011

Selected as an Honor Book for The Nature Generation’s 2013 Green Earth Book Award in Children’s Fiction

A History of Marriage

andri snÆr magnason

Birth Matters

ina may gaskin

elizabeth abbott

Shortlisted for Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Awards, 2010 Love Like Hate

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Maonomics

Once You Go Back

First prize for a work on Economics by the Italian Association for Economic Development

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loretta napoleoni

linh dinh

douglas martin

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