GREG RUGGIERO is a former senior editor of Seven Stories Press. Ruggiero cofounded the Open Media Series in 1991, and has since published some of the most outspoken scholars, social justice advocates, and dissidents of our time, including Angela Y. Davis, Allen Ginsberg, Alice Walker, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Ralph Nader, Arundhati Roy and Subcomandante Marcos. He currently works for City Lights, the legendary San Franciso-based publisher.