On our Front Table this week, explore the relation of art and society with a classic argument for a people's culture to combat the culture industry, a study of the social forces shaping the representation of Black culture in visual art, and a history of popular music focusing on its racialized boundaries. Find the following titles and more at semcoop.com.
Alien Listening: Voyager's Golden Record and Music from Earth
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On this episode, authors, publishers, editors and booksellers reflect on the value of their work, and what it takes to make a great bookstore thrive. Plus, an out-of-the-way reading list from our bookseller Mrittika: queer historical fiction... thrillers.
Dave Eggers is a novelist, founder of McSweeney's, and co-founder of 826 National. His latest novel, The Every, will initially available exclusively from independant bookstores like us (find out more about this special release...
On our Front Table this week, explore the inner lives of resistance, from a pedagogy of complaint, to a study of the myths and realities of a Mexican independence icon, and epistolary meditations on what it means to break with the past and imagine new futures. Find the following titles and more at semcoop.com.
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The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics...
In one of the latest additions to the University of Georgia Press’s Flannery O’Connor Award Series, essayist and fiction writer Kate McIntyre renders unsettling, complicated, and borderline fantastical the lives of seemingly ordinary people in a seemingly ordinary place. The prairie is simultaneously a place like no other and one where many Americans could see themselves represented.
In the correspondence below, Mad Prairie’s author shares some of her cinematic influences, her intentions, the peculiarities of Midwestern diction, and the ways in which the last five years, shaped by a violently divisive...
Borges and the Literary Marketplace: How Editorial Practices Shaped Cosmopolitan Reading (Yale...
On this episode of Open Stacks: a ghostly tour of the Co-op's Front Table, from the hauntings of American history to life (and death) advice from Spinoza.
For more on absence and presence, listen to this recent episode of Open Stacks featuring Daniel Heller-Roazen's Absentees and Susan Crane's Nothing Happened. And for more on the powers of history to trouble the present, listen to Leila Taylor, in...
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