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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 ...

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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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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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August 26th, 2024

On This Week's Front Table, give your ear to voices from the epicenter of cultural revolution and transformation. From essays giving way to our most courageous and tender relationships, to manifestos on the essential and prophetic voice of Black queer and trans poets during political unrest, and the landscapes of wonder and loss during displacement and immigration; then, hear from the chorus of powerful women writers this week – from a Chicago reporter who raised the alarm to Americans on Nazi misinformation and political ascent to the enduring lives of womanist poet and the guides for collective survival they bequeathed to readers. From...

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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...

Posted in: Bibliographies
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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