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August 19th, 2024

On This Week's Front Table, tune your ear to the lamenting lyricism of new poetry, centered in labor, and the translation of landmark political theory; then, turn away from it all with two new speculative fiction and mystery titles about loss, grief, and retreat — or seclude yourself in the mind of legendary French filmmakers; finally, trace your way through works of profound critical depth, from literary minds on marriage to finding bones in a backyard that change the world. Find these titles and more at ...
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August 12th, 2024

Carol Moldaw is the author of six previous books of poetry—Beauty Refracted; So LateSo Soon: New and Selected PoemsThe Lightning FieldThrough the Window; Chalkmarks on Stone; and Taken from the River—and a novella, The Widening. She has received a Merwin Conservancy Artists Residency, a National...

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August 12th, 2024

On This Week's Front Table, start off your week with Aztec philosophy, finally translated to English in its entirety; dive into stories of women under appreciated in history from thousands of years ago up through recent decades; finally, whether you prefer comedy or drama, finish off your summer reading with some new fiction about the need for human connection and self-discovery. Find these titles and more at...

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August 11th, 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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August 5th, 2024

On This Week's Front Table, explore the human-animal relationship that has transformed societies and empires for thousands of years; peruse the covers of comics that never were by a master cartoonist; take a new perspective on the works of an old artist and the lives of unacknowledged children; finally, wander the shifting borders between cultures and the line between rage and comedy. Find these titles and more at...

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July 26th, 2024

On This Week's Front Table, explore relationships in every form: between lovers, friends, and family; delve into how science guides our existence, with the mechanics behind how our sense of smell creates our world and how an animal with an unfavorable reputation may give us clues to the future of our urban landscapes; finally, explore language in its multitudes through award-winning poetry and a novella about a writer that crushes linguistic barriers. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com.

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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.


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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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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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