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October 18th, 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
October 15th, 2024

In anticipation of their adult fantasy debut Metal from Heaven (releasing October 22nd from Erewhon Books), we asked August Clarke, author of the indie-bestselling young adult series The Scapegracers, some of our lingering questions of their potent revolutionary ecofantasy. 


CO-OP: Most of the riotously queer cast of Metal From Heaven are devout people of faith in one way or another – which goes against a common grain of assumption in our world. What is most meaningful to you as a writer and human about the queer religious experience? How does that experience translate from our world...

Posted in: Bibliographies
October 13th, 2024

On This Week's Front Table, examine how the arts and sciences have always danced together; then explore reflections on the absurdities and abjection of being a poet who is also an office worker. Deepen how you think about the legacies of war, the presence of the past, and the renewed promise of art for our lives today; and consider John Lewis, a man whose heroism during the Civil Rights movement helped to bring America a new birth of freedom. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com.


John Lewis: A Life
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Posted in: Front Table
October 6th, 2024

On This Week's Front Table, examine a new collection that unforgettably describes a spiritual and physical journey; then critique the nature of knowledge and judgment. Consider what it means to truly express oneself through art; and then explore how one of America's most powerful and misunderstood electorates may come to define the future of American politics. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com.



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September 30th, 2024

On This Week's Front Table, consider what it means to recover our humanity and come back to the real world; then examine the non-European origins of what we consider to be “Western” thought and endeavors to recover forgotten forms of social and political order that gesture toward new, hopeful possibilities for the future. Immerse yourself in a true story of ordinary men and women under immense pressure; and then get lost in fiction that asks us what a sudden visitor can be: a mooch, a lover, an absence, a presence—possibly a pet? Find these titles and more at ...

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September 20th, 2024

On This Week's Front Table, throw yourself into a sweeping novel set at the furthest edges of human experience, where the forces that give life value--art, memory, poetry, music, care--are thrown into sharp relief; then examine a brilliant exploration of freedom--what it is, how it's been misunderstood, and why it's our only chance for survival, followed by a warm-spirited elegy to an abandoned work. Ponder how mourning can help us thrive, the role of moral exemplars in shaping our sense of the good, and the place of gratitude in human life; and then consider a scorching new fiction illuminating an argument between a father and his daughter that examines the fraught...

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September 14th, 2024

On This Week's Front Table, ponder a debut novel brimming with heart and humor about the power of community and connection, and a reckoning with what it means to be Black in America; examine bracing and, at times, discomfiting essays on the claims of justice and nationhood in Palestine by Mahatma Gandhi; and allow a renowned art critic to show how violence, civil war, and political intrigue gave birth to the Impressionist movement. Learn how visual tactics have long secured our regime of racial hierarchy in spite of its false foundations--and offer a way to begin to dismantle it; and then delve into a work of poetry that asserts that the future will forever be...

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September 8th, 2024

On This Week's Front Table, trace the figures of the shapes by which we abide: triangles, through revelatory analysis of trigonometry in our world; the incongruent parcels of land and measures of power detailed in the accounts of historic monarchs and historic financial failures; the right angles of brick-and-mortar bookstores and the irreplaceable value of such places. Then, deconstruct those shapes altogether – through poetry that reveals the sanctity and frailty of human memory, through the courageous translation of classic Russian satire, and the tangled woven web of a collapsing wealthy family in new fiction. Find these titles and more at ...

Posted in: Front Table
September 8th, 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
August 31st, 2024

On This Week's Front Table, watch the matchstick efforts throughout two-thousand years of human history flicker and flare with the hope of building the good life; observe the spaces in pop culture and protest for reimagination of Indigenous personhood through new poetry and the machines that illuminate or break human spirits – from electronic pop music to the local carceral state. See through time towards the endless possibilities of the world Kafka and Einstein shared in early twentieth-century Prague, and reflect on new and classic fiction about the lives of Upper West Side women. Find these titles and more at ...

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