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 sevenstories.com/blogs/323-hi...

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

“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

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...

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 [email protected] and I will add you to the list

I made a lil playlist for THE GRIEF SHOP, coming out in June from @sevenstories.bsky.social. open.spotify.com/playlist/7jP...

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

"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." clereviewofbooks.com/krisztina-to...

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.

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...

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! www.rcilondon.co.uk/event-detail...

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)

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-...

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)

"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"

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. www.sevenstories.com/blogs/404-ab...

32 people died ***that we know of***

In the first draft I had Homan speaking these words, but at the moment Bovino was the more visible face of the occupation so I swapped him out

José Martí, born January 28, 1853, organized and unified the movement for Cuban independence from Spain, ultimately giving up his life for the cause. His dedication to the goal of Cuban freedom made his name a synonym for liberty throughout Latin America.

It can get lower!

Today is the 82nd birthday of Dr. Angela Y. Davis. To celebrate her life and work, we’re proud to share an excerpt from our 2005 pamphlet “Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture,” an extended set of interviews with Dr. Davis conducted by the late philosopher Dr. Eduardo Mendieta.

FIELD NOTES FROM AN EXTINCTION by @eoghanwalls.bsky.social comes out 3/3/26 from @sevenstories.bsky.social @clairekelley.bsky.social #literary #thriller #funny #scientific #auks #ireland #BookSky get your @libraryreads.bsky.social votes in by 2/1!

recent book purchases of the gorgeous hardcover box set of Parable of the Sower/the Talents by Octavia E. Butler and the new paperback of Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming by László Krasznahorkai. Satoko Kizaki is a Japanese writer that is new to me, I found these online 📚✨

sending out another round of these today--it's an absolutely gorgeous book and I'd love to get it in the hands of anyone who's interested 🖤

Starting to do outreach for THE GRIEF SHOP & OTHER STORIES FROM A BROKEN WORLD, coming from @sevenstories.bsky.social in June! Would you like a review copy? DM me and I'm happy to send a PDF or get you on the list for physical copies when we have them! ❤

OK nerds, ANNOUNCEMENT I have a book coming out this May with @sevenstories.bsky.social! it is called The Dinner Party: A Book about Love" it's a collection of five sequences or stories, all in verse. They are about different kinds of love. You can pre-order it here, if you are so minded.

SAD TIGER is a 2025 NBCC Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize FINALIST!

Announcing the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Finalists for the Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize!

What indy titles are indy bookstore shoppers reading? Launching today: a new and alternative best-sellers book list from the Independent Publishers Caucus and @americanbookseller.bsky.social... www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Hello everyone. Did you know that groundbreaking lesbian filmmaker Su Friedrich has a book of journals and photos from her time traveling North Africa as a young woman coming out this spring and it is absolutely gorgeous and complex and smart as hell

Coming in 2026: more global literature of the radical imagination.

To celebrate the launch of Anthropause: The Beauty of Degrowth, we’ve unlocked a portion of the introduction, in which author Stan Cox makes the case for embracing degrowth, posing it not only as a way to prevent climate collapse but also for our collective emancipation from other systemic ills.

Distro Highlight ✨ Sad Tiger by Neige Sinno and translated by Natasha Lehrer and from @sevenstories.bsky.social Order yours from AK Press.org!

10/12 💙📚 #BookSky #DSPBposts #SmallPress #books from @semiotexte.bsky.social @sevenstories.bsky.social @antonialloydjones.bsky.social (See alt-text.)

Download the free ebook of There Are Words That Have Never Changed from @sevenstories.bsky.social. 💜 A sampler of writing in translation with excerpts of works by Naseer Aruri, José Antonio Emmanuel, Annie Ernaux, Edmund Ghareeb, Che Guevara, Jacqueline Harpman, Abdellah Taïa, and Krisztina Tóth.

Vote now in the Broken Frontier Awards 2025! Nominees for 'Best Periodical Series' include work from Mohammad Sabaaneh, Mimi Pond, @acmedarryl.bsky.social, Mazen Kerbaj and Rick Trembles. Vote here: www.brokenfrontier.com/introducing-... #BFAwards25

lithub.com/lit-hubs-mos... Great to see Eoghan Walls and #fieldnotesfromanextinction highlighted! 'A darkly funny literary thriller about research, seabirds, and the terror of parenthood? Absolutely sold.' @sevenstories.bsky.social @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social

“I understand the nature of war—writing about war, living through war—and why war is an indelible, horrible experience, yet absolutely central in human history.” On the history and future of authoritarianism, war, and literature in Europe.

So proud to find SAD TIGER on the @bookcritics.bsky.social Greg Barrios Book in Translation Prize longlist for 2025! Learn more about the prize and view the full longlist here: bookcritics.org/awards

I didn't even know there is a Che Guevara-library:

“The revolution is not a standardizer of collective will, of collective initiative. It is a liberator of an individual’s capacity. What the revolution does do is to orient that capacity. Our task is to orient the creative talent of all the medical professionals toward the tasks of social medicine.”