Greg Ruggiero Returns to Seven Stories
Editor Greg Ruggiero has returned to Seven Stories Press, where he first began his book publishing career, after 17 years at City Lights.
Ruggiero started his career street-selling pamphlets by such authors as Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn, and eventually published pamphlets by such authors as Mike Davis, Loretta Ross, and Edward Said. He joined Seven Stories in 1998, where he created the Open Media series, which adapted the political pamphlet into book form. The series included Noam Chomsky's 9-11, Angela Y. Davis's Are Prisons Obsolete?, and Tanya Reinhardt's Israel/Palestine. Ruggiero was also co-editor, with Juana Ponce de Leon, of Subcommandante Marcos’s 2000 collection of writings Our Word Is Our Weapon.
In 2005, Ruggiero left Seven Stories, moving to City Lights in early 2006. At City Lights, he worked on such books as The Black History of the White House by Clarence Lusane, and a new edition of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass with lecture notes by Angela Y. Davis.
Ruggiero departed City Lights in 2023 and rejoined Seven Stories later that year with the acquisition of Barbara McQuade's Attack from Within, a New York Times bestseller.
At Seven Stories, his upcoming acquisitions include Talking About Abolition by Sonali Kolhatkar (January 2025), Reversing the Pipeline: Black Boarding Schools and Mass Incarceration by Tamar Sarai, Anthropause: The Beauty of Degrowth by Stan Cox, Todd Miller’s Dammed: Climate Change, Borders, and the Emerging Water Wars, and From Gaza to Paradise by Ramzy Baroud.
