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July 26th, 2024
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Posted in: Front Table
July 22nd, 2024
On This Week's Front Table, move between the crafted and the real, beginning with poignant novels dealing with nature, family, violence, marriage and the bewilderment everywhere in everyday life; educate yourself on the future of economic development and the difficulties of centering mental health care into the mainstream of medicine; follow the paths of Black students fighting against imposed miseducation and learn about the dinosaurs that toppled traditional religious authority; finish the journey with a collection of chimeric poetics that blends field recordings, state archives, and ancient texts. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com.
Posted in: Front Table
July 15th, 2024
On This Week's Front Table, grapple with the nuances of modern society, from our supply chain's shortcomings to the toll of the American dream to the fate of uninsured persons confronting our healthcare system. Follow artists as they create art in Chicago's urban spaces; ask questions of sexual identity, exile, and lineage; journey through a provocative portrayal of sibling competition and the exploitation of social outcasts and rediscover the beauty of Baudelaire's poems. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com....
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July 13th, 2024
The Authors Guild Foundation is excited to present Chance Meetings, a new online literary seminar inspired by Rachel Cohen’s A Chance Meeting, a dazzling group biography that offers a striking vision of the making and remaking of the American mind and imagination from the Civil War to the Vietnam War.
We are pleased to announce that our customers can attend at a special price of $25 per ticket, instead of the regular price of $40. Check out the official page on the Authors Guild website, select the online seminar you'd like to attend, and enter the code CMDISC at checkout to get your special price.
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Posted in: Promotions
July 8th, 2024
On This Week's Front Table, meditate on the nuance of art, history and love, from newlyweds grappling with a diagnosis that will leave one of them as a great white shark, to a ceramic graduate’s unraveling obsession with an archive that reminds her eerily of herself, these memoirs, ethnographies and love letters embrace the sometimes wonderful way two conflicting things can be true at once. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com
Shark Heart: A Love Story
(S&S/Marysue Rucci Books)
Emily Habeck
For Lewis and Wren, their first year of marriage is also their last. A few weeks after their wedding, Lewis receives a rare diagnosis. He will retain most of his consciousness, memories, and...
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July 1st, 2024
The Solidarity Economy
(Princeton University Press)
Tehila Sasson
After India gained independence in 1947, Britain reinvented its role...
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June 24th, 2024
What an Owl Knows
(Penguin Books)
Jennifer Ackerman
With their forward gaze and quiet flight, owls are often a symbol of wisdom, knowledge, and...
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June 24th, 2024
What an Owl Knows
(Penguin Books)
Jennifer Ackerman
With their forward gaze and quiet flight, owls are often a symbol of wisdom, knowledge, and foresight. But what does an owl really know? And what do we really know about owls? In What an Owl Knows...
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June 21st, 2024
Photo Credit: Natasha Moustache
Of Her Becoming celebrates the printmaking, work, and impact of influential artist and activist Elizabeth Catlett (1915–2012) within an important site in Catlett’s career: Chicago’s South Side. Curated by Sheridan Tucker Anderson, the exhibition showcases an array of Catlett’s lithograph and linoleum prints alongside works by contemporary Black women printmakers from the South Side, Angela Davis Fegan, Krista Franklin, and Rebel Betty.
Examining the significance of Catlett’s time on the City’s South Side, this exhibition sheds new light on a period that revolutionized her artistic practice, and how her legacy still impacts artists and community organizers today.
We invite you to experience the exhibit yourself...
Posted in: Bibliographies
June 17th, 2024
On This Week's Front Table, Meditate on poems about reparations, restitution, and desire that dream of a different world that is also categorized by disaster, explore an absurd queer narrative that channels something between diary entry, absurd surrealist short stories, and autofiction, investigate the effects of the internet on how our brains store knowledge from ancient times to modern day and how it relates to thoughtfulness, and delve into the science and history behind the great lakes through the eyes of biologists, fishermen, and sailors. Find these titles and more at...
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