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Are Prisons Obsolete?
Angela Y. Davis
With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has made the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison.
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Unstuck in Time
Gregory D. Sumner
Sumner gives us a poignant portrait of Vonnegut and his resistance to celebrating the traditional values associated with the American Dream: grandiose ambition, unbridled material success, rugged individualism, and “winners” over “losers.”
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2012 London Foreign Rights Catalog
View and download the 2012 London Foreign Rights Catalog.
Seven Stories Spotlight 
New titles for May
The House of Moses All-Stars will be available now in paperback, May 15th. It is the story of an all-Jewish basketball team traveling in a hearse through Depression-era America in search of redemption and big money. A hilarious road novel, The House of Moses All-Stars is a passionate portrayal of a young Jewish man, Aaron Steiner, struggling to realize his dreams in a country struggling to recover its ideals.
The long-awaited Graphic Canon, Volume 1 will finally be in bookstores everywhere on May 22nd. The classic literary canon of Western civilization meets the comics artists, illustrators, and other artists who have remade reading in the last years of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first century in Russ Kick’s magisterial, three-volume, full-color The Graphic Canon. Volume 1 takes us on a visual tour from the earliest literature through the end of the 1700s. Visit GraphicCanon.com for reviews by the Wall Street Journal, Kirkus Reviews, Publisher’s Weekly, and interviews with the hundreds of contributors.
In author J. R. Helton’s hilarious Drugs, available May 22nd, Jake inimitably narrates the ups and downs of being a functional user of marijuana, cocaine, MDMA, alcohol, nicotine, brand name hydrocodone, and countless other drugs readily available and commonly partaken of in modern America. The contemporary heir of William S. Burroughs’s classic Junky, J. R. Helton’s novel Drugs shows us–through sly wit, deceptively powerful prose, and the unmistakable ring of truth–a side of America that most of us allow to remain hidden in plain sight.
A Man’s Place, in paperback on May 29th, tells the story of Annie Ernaux’s father who died exactly two months after she passed her practical examination for a teaching certificate. Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labor, Ernaux’s father had grown into a hard, practical man who showed his family little affection. Narrating his slow ascent towards material comfort, Ernaux’s cold observation reveals the shame that haunted her father throughout his life.
In the News 
Rave Review for The Graphic Canon in School Library Journal
May 18, 2012
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literary choices as well as art and interpretation. It is a perfect graduation or summer-reading present, and the solid editing, including introductory notes for each piece, makes it a required purchase for any library.”
“Planned to…
The Wall Street Journal’s Speakeasy blog gives a sneak peak of The Graphic Canon!
May 11, 2012
On May 22, the first volume will be released of “The Graphic Canon,” a three-volume anthology of classic literature adapted into graphic and visual form. The books are edited by Russ Kick and published by Seven Stories, and include everything from the epic of Gilgamesh to Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass” to David Foster Wallace.
Web Spotlight
Wikileaks
According to TIME Magazine, Wikileaks.org “… could become as important a journalistic tool as the Freedom of Information Act.” Wikileaks is a repository of leaked documents — “classified, censored or otherwise restricted material of political, diplomatic or ethical significance,” according to their submissions policy — from confidential inside sources, shedding light on the hidden workings (and intentions) of governments, institutions, and the forces that shape the lives of people around the globe. Possibly the ultimate resource for citizen journalists and activists, investigative reporters who focus on repressive actions by governments worldwide, and anyone interested in finding out the truth behind the illusion of official public policy.
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Voices of the Women's Health Movement
Volume 2
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God in Pain
Slavoj <span class='lastname'>?i?ek</span>,Boris <span class='lastname'>Gunjevic</span>
In God in Pain: Inversions of Apocalypse, pyrotechnic Marxist theorist Slavoj ?i?ek and radical theologian Boris Gunjevic offer us not a religious text but a critical inquiry, a work of faith not in God but in the human intellect.
