My relationship with Dan Simon, owner of Seven Stories Press, dates back to 1993 when the publisher of the first Project Censored Yearbook decided not to publish it again. I scrambled around looking for another publisher and was told to contact Dan Simon, a young and enterprising publisher in New York. I did, and after a few phone conversations Dan agreed to take on Project Censored. He has been the Project's and my publisher since then and a significant contributor to the success of Project

Upton Sinclair's Millennium book was widely rejected by publishers in 1924 when he wrote it. He finally self-published it. Similarly, this reprint of Millennium was initially rejected by literary agents and publishers, including Seven Stories Press. But when Dan discovered I was planning to publish it on my own, he stepped forward and agreed to publish it himself.

It is thanks to Dan Simon at Seven Stories Press that you now have an opportunity to read The Millennium by Upton Sinclair!

Following is a brief background of Seven Stories Press as excerpted from its web site.

The publishing program that is now Seven Stories Press dates back to 1984 when Dan Simon began reissuing the works of Nelson Algren through an imprint at Writers and Readers.

Seven Stories Press was founded in 1995 by Simon in association with seven originating authors—hence the name—and Publishers Group West (the nation's largest independent book distributor) to create a unique book publishing house to continue that fifteen-year tradition, melding a complex editorial vision with strong author relationships.

The founding writers all continue to publish with Seven Stories. They are novelist Octavia E. Butler; French memoirist Annie Ernaux; media monitoring group Project Censored, then under the direction of Carl Jensen; alternative nutritionist Gary Null; (the estate of) Nelson Algren; sports novelist Charley Rosen; and Greek novelist Vassilis Vassilikos.

In the early months they were joined by women's health authors Rebecca Chalker and Carol Downer, radical writer and artist Gene Fellner, award-winning graphic artist Kathryn Hyatt, satirist Paul Krassner, radical attorney William Kunstler, media visionary Danny Schechter, pioneering feminist Barbara Seaman, and award-winning memoirist Lee Stringer.

In 1996 and 1997, editors Greg Ruggiero and Stuart Sahulka brought their ground-breaking, activist, Open Media pamphlet series, previously self-published, to Seven Stories.

Other authors joining Seven Stories in those years included investigative interviewer Claudia Dreifus, prize-winning Belgian novelist Jacqueline Harpman, bestselling historian of daily life Daniel Pool, Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi with American Buddhist and Burma expert Alan Clements, Olympic athlete Peter Westbrook with his associate writer/publisher Tej Hazarika, the preeminent radical U.S. historian Howard Zinn, and translators extraordinaire Richard Howard, Peter Constantine, and Tanya Leslie.

In 1998, these were joined by world-renowned political activist Noam Chomsky, celebrated radical artist Eric Drooker, the great French novelist Marguerite Duras, fearless biographer Carol Felsenthal, groundbreaking psychologist Arlene Huysman, radical historian Bruce Kayton, poet Stanley Moss, and the courageous investigative reporter Gary Webb, and the distinguished translator Betsy Wing.

The publishing program at Seven Stories covers three distinct areas: 1) presenting a select list of top literary authors, usually in high quality hardcover editions; 2) presenting a hard-hitting group of distinguished nonfiction authors who are committed proponents of social justice, human rights and radical activism; in this aspect we see ourselves as part of the struggle for human rights, not just witnesses to it; 3) publishing in the areas of alternative health, women's health, and popular culture, areas distinct from our two primary niches but also significantly related to them.

Our books are sold to the book trade through the Publishers Group West catalogs and sales force, which operates on a three–season basis. We distribute actively in three other regional markets: Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Our books are also available, and prominently featured, on the Internet through a variety of outlets, including amazon.com and our own web site. As an originator of content, we also license rights to our books throughout the world and in various formats and media.

For more information about Dan Simon and Seven Stories Press, please go to: http://www.sevenstories.com/ .