Ballad of the Black and Blue Mind (19 page)

 

 

about the author

Writer, essayist, and journalist
ANNE ROIPHE
is known and revered for such novels as
Up the Sandbox
and
Lovingkindness
, and for her memoirs:
1185 Park Avenue
,
Epilogue
, and
Art and Madness.
In addition to her eighteen fiction and nonfiction books, she has written articles for
The New York Times Magazine
,
Vogue
, and
Elle
, among others, and for many years she wrote columns for
The New York Observer
and for
The Jerusalem Report
. Her book,
Fruitful
, was a finalist for the National Book Award.

 

 

about seven stories press

Seven Stories Press is an independent book publisher based in New York City. We publish works of the imagination by such writers as Nelson Algren, Russell Banks, Octavia E. Butler, Ani DiFranco, Assia Djebar, Ariel Dorfman, Coco Fusco, Barry Gifford, Martha Long, Luis Negrón, Hwang Sok-yong, Lee Stringer, and Kurt Vonnegut, to name a few, together with political titles by voices of conscience, including Subhankar Banerjee, the Boston Women's Health Collective, Noam Chomsky, Angela Y. Davis, Human Rights Watch, Derrick Jensen, Ralph Nader, Loretta Napoleoni, Gary Null, Greg Palast, Project Censored, Barbara Seaman, Alice Walker, Gary Webb, and Howard Zinn, among many others. Seven Stories Press believes publishers have a special responsibility to defend free speech and human rights, and to celebrate the gifts of the human imagination, wherever we can. In 2012 we launched Triangle Square books for young readers with strong social justice and narrative components, telling personal stories of courage and commitment. For additional information, visit www.sevenstories.com.