Academic Deals
When you buy a copy of the Voices of a People’s History teacher’s guide, you’ll get a copy of the Voices of a People’s History CD free of charge.
Featured Releases
-
Grand Central Winter
Lee Stringer
Lee Stringer, a homeless drug addict living in the tunnels beneath Grand Central Station, was using a pencil one day to clear out his crack pipe when he realized: a pencil can also be used for writing. From this moment came his classic Grand Central Winter: Stories From The Streets — now updated and expanded with four new chapters, including a startling new ending.
Academic Spotlight 
Academic Catalog for 2009
The Seven Stories Press 2009 Academic Catalog is now available online, now organized alphabetically by subject, featuring new sections on Gary Webb and Film and Theater, and full of classic backlist and frontlist titles including Octavia Butler, Nelson Algren, Howard Zinn, Assia Djebar, Annie Ernaux, Shere Hite, and many more. Click here to download the PDF!
To order desk or exam copies from Seven Stories Press, please either fax us at 212 226 1411 on official school letterhead, or email academic at sevenstories dot com. Desk copies for adopted titles are available free of charge, and exam copies are available for a six-month free trial period. You can also request desk or exam copies through the new Consortium academic website.
Academic News 
The Other Side of Silence: On W.G. Sebald, by Evelyn Toynton
March 26, 2010
Questioned by his interviewers about the Nazi era, [Sebald] describes the “conspiracy of silence” that prevailed while he was growing up after the war; he is convinced that his parents, who had been supporters of Hitler, never spoke about what had happened even when they were alone. “But then pressure eventually saw to it that in schools the subject would be raised,” he tells the writer Joseph Cuomo. “It was usually done in the form of documentary films which were shown to us without comment. So, you know, it was a sunny June afternoon, and you would see one of those liberation of Dachau or Belsen films, and then you would go and play football.”
He talks, too, about his discomfort, later on, as a student at Freiburg University — a sense of some falseness he could not exactly pin down. Eventually, he realized that all his professors had received their doctorates in the 1930s and early ’40s; he even hunted up their dissertations: “If you . . . looked at what their Ph.D.’s were about, your hair stood on end.” When Wachtel asks him about his feelings for Germany, Sebald begins, “Well, I know it’s my country,” and winds up by saying, “in a sense it’s not my country. But because of its peculiar history and the bad dive that history took in this century . . . because of that I feel you can’t simply abdicate and say, well, it’s nothing to do with me. I have inherited that backpack and I have to carry it whether I like it or not.”
— Evelyn Toynton, from her 2008 Harper’s review of The Emergence of Memory
Recent Course Adoptions
Study Materials
-
A Woman’s Story Reading Group Guide
Annie Ernaux & Seven Stories Press
Discussion questions for Annie Ernaux’s A Woman’s Story, along with a brief list of additional reading on Annie Ernaux’s writing and career. Download the PDF here.
