Books from Seven Stories Press

  • When Harlem Nearly Killed King: The 1958 Stabbing of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
    By Hugh Pearson

    By that time , Wright had been given the green light by the city hospital bureaucracy , as well as the predominantly Caucasian staff of Harlem Hospital ...

  • The Family Hightower: A Novel
    By Brian Francis Slattery

    She voted for James M. Cox, newspaperman, Democrat, former governor of Ohio, and has decided she hates Warren G. Harding, ... Jess Smith is still alive—he'll be found shot in the head eleven months from now, with people haggling over ...

  • The 5 Unanswered Questions About 9/11: What the 9/11 Commission Report Failed to Tell Us
    By James Ridgeway

    Chris Mooney, "Back to Church," American Prospect Online, 5 November 2001 , http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewPrint&arti- cleld=5963. 63. Bob Drogin, "Spy Agencies Fear Some Applicants Are Terrorists ...

  • Gone Tomorrow: A novel
    By Gary Indiana

    She sees the empty hall, the pale gray wall-to-wall carpet, the low bookshelves along the hall, the Elizabeth Taylor silkscreen. It's stuffy in there. A definite crime scene ambiance. She steps into the hall. She calls out.

  • In Our Control: The Complete Guide to Contraceptive Choices for Women
    By Laura Eldridge

    24 Janet Farrell Brodie notes that most middle-class married women felt little to no impact from the Comstock Law and “had abortions and babies in the privacy of their own homes.”25 A third problem was that as long as the trafficking of ...

  • Paranoia & Heartbreak: Fifteen Years in a Juvenile Facility
    By Jerome Gold

    ... Cottage Carroll Sanders—Terry Voight's foster father Sean—Davis Peters' stepfather Knute Turner—Colin Turner's brother Cindy Voight—Terry Voight's stepmother Daniel Voight—Terry Voight's father Fred Voight—Terry Voight's uncle Kathy ...

  • The Good Doctor: Why Medical Uncertainty Matters
    By Kenneth Brigham, Michael M. E. Johns

    F. North, W. Ward, P. Varkey, and S. Tulledge-Scheitel, “Should You Search the Internet for Information about Your Acute Symptom?,” Telemedicine Journal and E-Health 18 (2012): 213-218. Todd Rose, The End of Average (San Francisco: ...

  • Racing While Black: How an African-American Stock Car Team Made Its Mark on NASCAR
    By Leonard T. Miller

    ... 247, 260, 273 Slick 50 300, 153 Slim Jim All Pro Series, 154, 157, 179, 198, 281 Smith, Bruton, 153, ... Texas Motor Speedway, 313 Thomas, Isiah, 250 Thomas, Tuesday, 226, 312 Thompson, Tommy, 24–25, 44, 47, 115 Todd,J.R., ...

  • Hunting the Last Wild Man
    By Angela Vallvey

    He looks like the man who shot Kennedy!" She had watched the film JFK on telly the previous afternoon. Coli replied indignantly: "And how the hell would you know what Kennedy's assassin looked like; as far as I know, they haven't ever ...

  • When Harlem Nearly Killed King: The 1958 Stabbing of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
    By Hugh Pearson

    When Harlem Nearly Killed King spins the tale of a little-known episode in the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. how, in 1958, King was stabbed by a deranged black woman in Harlem, and then saved by Harlem Hospital's most acclaimed ...

  • Power, Privilege and the Post: The Katharine Graham Story
    By Carol Felsenthal

    *Luvie Pearson; “Philip L. Graham of Post Kills Self with Shotgun,” WS, August 4, 1963. 4. *Karl Meyer. 5. “Philip L. Graham,” WP, August 4, 1963. 6. Felix Frankfurter, letter to the editor, WP, August 20, 1963. 7. *Harvey Segal. 8.

  • The Forbidden Stories of Marta Veneranda
    By Sonia Rivera-Valdes

    His other translations of Cuban fiction include the anthology Cubana : Contemporary Fiction by Cuban Women and works by Alejandro Hernandez Diaz , Antonio Jose Ponte , and Pedro de Jesus . Of The Forbidden Stories , Dick Cluster ...

  • The Contenders
    By James Ridgeway, Laura Flanders, Richard Goldstein

    What makes Al Gore rock and roll? Why do Joe Biden, Christopher Dodd, Bill Richardson, and Mike Gravel bother? Find out in this irreverent guide to the 2008 presidential candidates.

  • The Roy Stories
    By Barry Gifford

    Nobody knew why Mrs. Ferguson had been in the alley at five thirty that morning, unless she had taken out some garbage, but no fresh garbage was found in the Ferguson family's trash can. Neither Flip nor Lefty had heard any unusual ...

  • Roy's World: Stories: 1973-2020
    By Barry Gifford

    Nobody knew why Mrs. Ferguson had been in the alley at five thirty that morning, unless she had taken out some garbage, but no fresh garbage was found in the Ferguson family's trash can. Neither Flip nor Lefty had heard any unusual ...

  • Lovely Me: The Life of Jacqueline Susann
    By Barbara Seaman

    ... and Ruth C. Sullivan at the National Society for Autistic Children . A sampling of book and article titles includes the following : Hoffman , Lois Wladis , and Martin L. Hoffman , editors . Review of Child Development Research .

  • For Women Only!: Your Guide to Health Empowerment
    By Barbara Seaman, Gary Null

    David L. Hoffman, M.N.I.M.H., in an article posted on the HealthWorld Online website (www.healthy.net), adds that microcrystals of calcium phosphate in the urine may cause mechanical irritation to the bladder walls, resulting in ...

  • Silencing Political Dissent
    By Nancy Chang

    26 However , it was not until 1969 , the final year of Chief Justice Earl Warren's sixteen - year tenure on the Supreme Court — a tenure remarkable for its groundbreaking decisions promoting individual freedom and racial equality — that ...

  • The Killing Game
    By Gary Webb

    John C. Imhoff, president and chief executive officer of the hospital, said he was of the opinion that no disciplinary action was warranted in Manthey's case. Imhoff acknowledged, however, that neither he nor anyone else in the ...

  • I Had to Say Something: The Art of Ted Haggard's Fall
    By Mike Jones

    Within days, Dan Savage had posted it on his Savage Love column at the Seattle newspaper The Stranger, and people sent me enough money to cover my December bills, like rent and telephone. In addition, I was deemed Queer of the Year by ...