Founded by Dan Simon, Seven Stories began as a venture to obtain the rights for Nelson Algren’s out-of-print books. There was New Wave and there was revolution. The Contemporary Small Press project is based in the Department of English, Linguistics, and Cultural Studies at the University of Westminster, and hosted by the Institute of Modern and Contemporary Culture. A couple hundred days away from graduating, Sebastian joins the Model UN at his college—not because he’s interested in world affairs, but “for the glamor of international diplomacy without any of the responsibility”— and spends his time attending conferences at different colleges across the country where he starts fretting over his future. By Literary Hub. The people in this world make gestures both grand and small, sometimes violent, sometimes gentle, but always bold.
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