Iranian activist Maryam Shojaei on women’s stadium ban protests and arrest by morality police Maryam Shojaei on protests against women's ban from stadiums, and not being able to watch her brother, Masoud, captain Iran's men's side

In @theathletic.com, Maryam Shojaei discusses Iran, the World Cup, and the real life stories behind AZADI MEANS FREEDOM.
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Indie Lit Fair - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses May 2, 2026 12–6 PM Washington Square South (between Thompson St. & Sullivan St.) New York City Join us for the tenth annual Indie Lit Fair, co-presented by the PEN World Voices Festival and the…

Join us in NYC on Saturday, May 2, for the tenth annual Indie Lit Fair, co-presented by the PEN World Voices Festival! The fair will take place from noon to 6 PM at Washington Square South and will also feature a special reading. Learn more: www.clmp.org/indie-lit-fa...

redacting every location on your tour poster. People gotta pay attention to your clues

A close up photo of the book cover

Distro Highlight 📣
Movements That Win: Patterns of Resistance, Ecologies of Struggle
by Aric McBay and from @sevenstories.bsky.social

It’s the last day to get 30% off this and everything else site-wide at AKPress.org!

:~)

Diminished Lives: an Assault on the Humanities More and more students are being indoctrinated into a cult of cold “efficiency,” where the training of workers for corporate employment are held to be the ultimate priorities.

"Regrettably, in too many schools, the scientific theme soon grew into a storm of arctic air that blew away any serious concern for the artistry of language in the books and stories that children were increasingly denied the time to read." www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Read Nora’s piece on LitHub (@literaryhub.bsky.social) about motherhood as a form of time travel…

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"I Still Am is an endlessly fascinating—and revealing—account from one of our most interesting image makers." Thanks to @xtramagazine.com for this great I STILL AM writeup! mailchi.mp/f53564ef83c7...

Before the Flood The social, political, and historical context of the Israeli war on Palestine told through the stories of the author’s family and village. "Deeply researched and highly readable, Before the Flood is…

In BEFORE THE FLOOD, Ramzy Baroud illustrates “how historical forces shaped the collective consciousness and steadfast resilience of the Palestinian people.”

Read a memoir from @sevenstories.bsky.social this #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth:
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Envisioning A World Without Prisons: Books on Abolition · Blog Post · 49th Shelf What would a world without prisons look like?If you asked me this question ten years ago, I would have likely looked at you confused and completely dumbfounded. ...

What would a world without prisons look like? Take a look at these fascinating reads on abolition and envisioning a bold and beautiful world.

49thshelf.com/Blog/2026/04... @haymarketbooks.org @fernpub.bsky.social @sevenstories.bsky.social #CanLit #Abolition #PrisonersJustice

Publishers Marketplace Category: Reprints: Gesamtkunstwerk THE ENTIRE SIXTEENTH CENTURY Imprint: Fifteen Hundred Stories Press Deal Report April 1, 2026 Seven Stories Press, publisher of Annie Ernaux and Kurt Vonnegut, has acquired THE ENTIRE SIXTEENTH CENTURY, as in every book we have records of from 1500-1599, in an exclusive deal. Says the press, "Everyone loves reprints right now. So we figured, why not reprint all of the sixteenth century? We've decided to go in chronological order, so don't get excited for Shakespeare just yet. Right now we're mostly focused on The Boke of Cokery." The publisher also announced they would be printing all texts in period-accurate formats, and are looking for summer interns who specialize in medeival carpentry.

This is a big one, folks. Get excited.

The Dinner Party “The Dinner Party is brilliant, hot, uproarious, and gay as hell: at once a high-wire camp performance and an aching tribute to the sounds and shapes of our language.” —Maggie Millner, author of Coupl...

Cat’s brilliant new collection of poems, THE DINNER PARTY, is forthcoming from Seven Stories Press this spring and now available for preorder. www.sevenstories.com/books/4817-t...

Excerpt: “The Call-Out” by Cat Fitzpatrick Celebrate Trans Day of Visibility with Cat Fitzpatrick’s whimsical, chicly satirical novel in verse.

Happy Mira Bellwether Day/Buy A Trans Woman A Pizza Day/Transgender Day of Visibility! To celebrate the occasion, and because we’ll take any excuse to share work by @catfitzpatrick.net, we’re excited to share an excerpt from Fitzpatrick’s iconic 2022 debut novel, The Call-Out.

Cat Fitzpatrick delights in this post-pandemic follow-up to her debut verse novel of present-day manners, The Call-Out — a trans community celebration of mores, gender theory, and rhyme. The Dinner Party returns to the chaotic and adorable world of trans femme.

You guys the copy for my book on the @sevenstories.bsky.social website is so chaotic I am kind of in love with it

Excited for the Indie to Indie Party this Wednesday along with @coachhousebooks.bsky.social @graywolfpress.bsky.social @milkweededitions.bsky.social @sevenstories.bsky.social @groveatlantic.bsky.social and more!!!

best part of my week as Web Assistant (going through whatever rabbit holes @catfitzpatrick.net went down since I last checked and reposting anything that could even somewhat be considered "marketing")

I FOUGHT THE LAW AND THE LAW LOST

hey do any of you know @nigella.bsky.social and if yes can you persuade her to come to new york and do the book launch for "The Dinner Party" with me thx

because we live in the dark heart of an empire with endless blood on its hands, we've also put together a reading list with essentials on Cuban history this week 🙃 www.sevenstories.com/blogs/413-vi...

because we live in the dark heart of an empire with endless blood on its hands, we've also put together a reading list with essentials on Cuban history this week 🙃 www.sevenstories.com/blogs/413-vi...

Seven Stories Press compiles "Hands Off Iran" reading list "Hands Off Iran" reading list will deepen your knowledge of socio-historical, geopolitical, and cultural relations between the US and Iran.

Thanks to our friends at @boingboing.net for covering our Hands Off Iran Reading List! boingboing.net/2026/03/25/s...

This is so lovely, thank you 💕

Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War Che's indelible account of the Cuban revolutionary war, the source of Che: Part 1, the 2008 film by Steven Soderbergh, starring Benicio del Toro

I love @sevenstories.bsky.social and always find their titles so relevant for the times being.

Today I'm highlighting this one: 'Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War,' by Ernesto Che Guevara—for obvious reasons.

Trying to decide what book to read next? Check out @sevenstories.bsky.social's 2026 Trans Righta Read-a-Thon! It starts today and goes to the #TransDayOOfVisibility on 31 Mar. #TransRightsAreHumanRights #LGBTQ+ 🏳️‍⚧️

The very first review of THE GRIEF SHOP, from @sevenstories.bsky.social !

"Through an atmosphere of emotional disaffection, the stories evoke a genuine empathy, transforming beyond the coolness of the prose into a compassionate study of the human condition."

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“How can we dare surreal humor in the face of real desperation? As an Irishman, it’s the first tool I would reach for, and I am not alone in this. Surrealism, wit in the face of desperate times, seems to me everywhere in Irish writing now. Take these seven books as prime examples.”

7 Darkly Surreal Irish Books to Read This St. Patrick’s Day

These days the air has a keen edge. A desperate edge. What forms can the imagination take when power seems nonsensical and cruelty deliberate? These questions haunt and should haunt our fiction. My new novel, Field Notes from an Extinction, deals with ecological disaster, weaponized starvation, and anti-immigrant sentiment. These are keenly felt today, but the Irish have always been immigrants we build our souls on emigration and return and I wanted to remind the Irish of this. But rather than now, I set my novel in the Irish potato famine when there was money enough for great scientific enterprises, but people were let starve to protect market freedoms. When Irish immigrants were demonized too. My protagonist, Ignatius Green, an English scientist, has to suddenly deal with a starving half-dead child thrust onto his research outpost. The story is dark with Great Auks and starvation and despair and the faintest hint of a werewolf as it steps through realist suffering with humor and one eye on the surreal. How can we dare surreal humor in the face of real desperation? As an Irishman, it's the first tool I would reach for, and I am not alone in this. Surrealism, wit in the face of desperate times, seems to me everywhere in Irish writing now. Take these seven books as prime examples.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! To celebrate, our friend Eoghan Walls has put together a list for Electric Lit of his favorite darkly surreal Irish books.

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7 Darkly Surreal Irish Books to Read This St. Patrick's Day - Electric Literature These Irish authors use wry humor to navigate desperate times

These Irish authors use wry humor to navigate dark times.

Mornings with Murray | Darryl Pinckney Thirty years ago or more, when on my way home to Indiana or on my way back to England, I would stop off in New York City. Barbara Epstein would put me up

And @nybooks.com ran Darryl Pinckney’s foreword to Going Around, which reads like a deleted scene from his lovely memoir Come Back in September.

Murray Kempton Always Had Trump’s Number Remembering the legendary New York City reporter who wrote of the rot at the center of Donald Trump’s politics decades before his presidency.

For @theprogressivemag.bsky.social, I wrote about Murray Kempton and Donald Trump, one of the few people he truly could not stand.