On this week’s Front Table, consider how a remarkable community of Black women writers transformed American writing and cultural institutions, then dive into a thrilling new novel that examines an artist spectacularly self-destructing. Be captivated by two stories that converge in the aftermath of the devastating 1908 earthquake in Sicily and Calabria where each character must piece back together a life and start anew, and ponder poems that speak to an author's profound experience of learning to write again after suffering a stroke. Then ask, do any of us really care about truth when it comes to politics? And should we? Find these titles and more at semcoop.com.
