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2021 |
December 17 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - December 17, 2021 |
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December 3 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - December 3, 2021 |
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November 12 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - November 12, 2021 |
November 5 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - November 05, 2021 |
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October 14 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - October 14, 2021 |
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October 1 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - October 1, 2021 |
September 24 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - September 24, 2021 |
September 17 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - September 17, 2021 |
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September 3 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - September 3, 2021 |
August 27 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - August 27, 2021 |
August 20 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - August 20, 2021 |
August 13 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - August 13, 2021 |
August 6 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - August 6, 2021 |
July 30 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - July 30, 2021 |
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April 16 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - April 16, 2021 |
April 9 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - April 9, 2021 |
April 2 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - April 2, 2021 |
March 26 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - March 26 |
March 19 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - March 19 |
March 12 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - March 12 |
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February 6 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - February 6th |
January 29 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - January 29th |
January 22 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - January 22nd |
January 15 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - January 15th |
January 7 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - January 7th |
2020 |
December 30 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - December 30th |
December 22 | Last-Minute Holiday Gifts from the Seminary Co-op |
December 15 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - December 15th |
December 9 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - December 9th |
December 1 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - December 1st |
November 25 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - November 25th |
November 19 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - November 19th |
November 13 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - November 13th |
November 5 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - November 5th |
November 1 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - November 1st |
October 22 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - October 22nd |
October 16 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - October 16th |
October 11 | Fiction & Poetry Selections from the Seminary Co-op - October 11th |
October 5 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - October 5th |
October 2 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - October 2nd |
September 26 | Fiction & Poetry Selections from the Seminary Co-op - September 26th |
September 23 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - September 23rd |
September 17 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - September 17th |
September 11 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - September 11th |
September 3 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - September 3rd |
August 28 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - August 28th |
August 21 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - August 21st |
August 14 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - August 14th |
August 6 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - August 6th |
July 31 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter + Virtual Events - July 31st |
July 23 | Fiction & Poetry Selections from The Seminary Co-op - July 23rd |
July 10 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - July 10th |
June 23 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - June 23rd |
June 16 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - June 16th |
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June 2 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - June 2nd |
May 27 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - May 27th |
May 20 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - May 20th |
May 5 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - May 5th |
April 30 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - April 30th |
April 27 | New Fiction and Poetry From the Seminary Co-op |
April 23 | The Seminary Co-op's Front Table Newsletter - April 23rd |
April 17 | CHOICE WORDS & more on the RETURN of this week's Front Table + Extended Free Shipping |
April 13 | Support The Seminary Co-op: COVID-19 Relief #3 |
April 3 | Support The Seminary Co-op: COVID-19 Relief #2 |
March 31 | Support The Seminary Co-op: COVID-19 Relief #1 |
March 27 | Support The Seminary Co-op: COVID-19 Relief |
March 19 | Thank You |
March 14 | An Update from the Co-op: Temporary Store Closure |
March 12 | A message from the Seminary Co-op Bookstores regarding COVID-19 |
March 8 | WAYS OF HEARING, ARTS OF ADDRESS & More on This Week's Front Table + Pre-order Jesmyn Ward |
March 1 | Books on Books w Craig Fehrman's AUTHOR IN CHIEF + The Front Table's New Classics |
February 23 | Mikki Kendall's HOOD FEMINISM. Paul Krugman's ZOMBIES, Stone & Strauss on DEMOCRACY & EQUALITY & More Reads That Can't Wait! |
February 16 | Get RE-ENCHANTED on This Week's Front Table + Off the Record w Open & N. K. Jemisin's THE CITY WE BECAME |
February 9 | Preorder Piketty's CAPITAL & IDEOLOGY + Gabriel Bump's South Side Novel EVERYWHERE YOU DON'T BELONG & Jordan Alexander Stein on WHEN NOVELS WERE BOOKS |
February 2 | Fail Better, Read Better on OPEN STACKS + THE OBAMA PORTRAITS & New Forms of Fulfillment on This Week's Front Table |
January 27 | FORMS OF POETIC ATTENTION & THE ORDER OF FORMS w Lucy Alford & Anna Kornbluh + Lee Bey on Overlooked Architecture of Chicago's South Side |
January 22 | In Other Words: Issue No. 3 |
January 20 | WHY WE CAN'T SLEEP by Ada Calhoun, Lisa Wedeen on AUTHORITARIAN APPREHENSIONS, Susan Stewart's RUINS LESSON & Adam Sonderberg's Front Table |
January 12 | Back to School with Lee Anne Fennell's SLICES & LUMPS, ELEMENTARY POETRY & Winter 2020 UCHICAGO COURSEBOOKS + Preorder IN THE LAND OF MEN & More |
January 6 | SAY WHAT HAPPENED on This Week's Front Table + E. Patrick Johnson's HONEYPOT & John Mark Hansen's THE CITY IN A GARDEN |
2019 |
December 29 | Co-op Notables: Book of the Decade + Last Call for Free Standard Shipping Through 12/31! |
December 22 | Booksellers' TOP 5 IN 20 + Our Holiday Guide & 2019 Co-op Notables |
December 15 | Gifts of Worth in Our Holiday Guide & 2019 Co-op Notables + Marginal Revolutionaries and Other Upcoming Events |
December 10 | In Other Words: Issue No. 2 |
December 8 | Children Aren’t Boats: Kim Brooks & Julissa Arce on OPEN STACKS + PURE ADULTERATION on This Week's Front Table |
December 2 | The 2019 Holiday Gift Guide & Co-op Notable Books w FREE Standard Shipping + Tomi Adeyemi, Robert Pippin & Other Notable Events |
November 24 | Out of Season w Devin Johnston & Kathryn Scanlan's AUG 9––FOG + A HISTORY OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN 50 OBJECTS |
November 18 | Night of the Living Poems + In the Stacks w Etgar Keret, MOVING FORWARD w MoveOn.Org's Karine Jean-Pierre & Lauren Michele Jackson on WHITE NEGROES |
November 10 | In Other Words: Issue No. 1 |
November 4 | 2019 National Book Award Finalists Jericho Brown, Ilya Kaminsky & Albert Woodfox + Walter Benjamin's ARCADES PROJECT at 20 & THE DAILY SHERLOCK HOLMES |
October 27 | Approaching Inequality on This Week's Front Table + In the Stacks w Ocean Vuong & Rebecca Clarren |
October 21 | Information Processing on This Week's Front Table + Martha Nussbaum, Morgan Parker, Reflections on Springsteen & More! |
October 13 | Placemaking on MAXWELL STREET + Preorder WHITE NEGROES by Lauren Michele Jackson & More! |
October 7 | Open Stacks Returns w Dani Shapiro & Tim Cresswell + Haun Saussy, Morgan Parker & the Psychology of Extremism on This Week's Front Table |
September 29 | Back to School & BEYOND EDUCATION + Henry A. Giroux's Critical Reads & Powerful Books of CHF's Fall Festival |
September 23 | Past, Present & Future NBA Nominees + Ta-Nehisi Coates, Akilah Hughes, Henry Winkler & More! |
September 15 | Go Places w Fall 2019 UChicago Coursebooks + The Secret Lives of Color on This Week's Front Table |
September 9 | National Book Award-winner Jacqueline Woodson w Samira Ahmed on RED AT THE BONE + Etgar Keret, Alex Kotlowitz, Akilah Hughes & More September Features |
September 1 | A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE & Other Takes on Environmental Peril + Anthony Bourdain's LAST INTERVIEW |
August 26 | Ocean Vuong Returns + Etgar Keret's FLY ALREADY, BLUE MYTHOLOGIES & More! |
August 18 | THE WRONG OF RUDENESS & Other Ancient Wisdom on This Week's Front Table |
August 11 | Renegade Anthropology w Charles King + Kim Brooks w Rebecca Makkai on Parenthood in the Age of Fear & Rev. Sharon Risher on Hope After Charleston |
August 4 | COLLECTING THE WORLD on This Week's Front Table + Preorder Ta-Nehisi Coates' Debut Novel THE WATER DANCER & More! |
July 28 | Kalisha Buckhanon on SPEAKING OF SUMMER, Jim DeRogatis on THE CASE AGAINST R. KELLY, Jim Steichen on BALANCHINE & KIRSTEIN'S AMERICAN ENTERPRISE |
July 21 | KEEPING THE WINDOW OPEN & Other Excursions on This Week's Front Table, Martha Nussbaum's THE COSMOPOLITAN TRADITION & More |
July 14 | Ocean Vuong's ON EARTH WE'RE BRIEFLY GORGEOUS w Emily Yoon, New Poetry by Erika L. Sánchez & Emily Skaja + Preorder Margaret Atwood's THE TESTAMENTS |
July 7 | The Social Life of Knowledge w New Readings of Foucault, Hegel & Children's Lit in Hitler's Germany |
June 30 | Get Personal & Political w Lisa Duggan on MEAN GIRL AYN RAND, Joy-Ann Reid on THE MAN WHO SOLD AMERICA & Andrew Shaffer's Latest OBAMA-BIDEN MYSTERY! |
June 23 | THE END OF FORGETTING & Other Traces of the Past on the Front Table + Reading is Powerful w CHF |
June 16 | Summer Reading Ready w Kathryn Scanlan's AUG 9-FOG, Dani Shapiro's INHERITANCE, Johanna Fernandez on Mumia Abu-Jamal + Bishop Michael Curry & More! |
June 9 | Robert Launay, Noura Erakat & "the Other" on Open Stacks + Explore UNDERLAND & Roots of Mass Violence on This Week's Front Table |
June 2 | AGAINST NATURE w Lorraine Daston, TRAILBLAZER Dorothy Butler Gilliam & Josh Levin on THE QUEEN + Preorder Colson Whitehead, et al. Summer Reads! |
May 31 | On Measure |
May 26 | Are We There Yet? Fictions of Anxiety & Memory w Amit Chaudhuri & Evelyn Hampton + Histories of Gender & Sexuality on the Front Table |
May 19 | Explore the "Nature" of Society w Lorraine Daston, Michael Pollan, Sheila Heti, Feminista Jones & More! |
May 16 | Frequently Asked Questions Regarding the Seminary Co-op’s Proposed Governance Transition |
May 12 | Exoteric Advice w Edith Hall on Aristotle & the New Yorker's Helen Rosner on Julia Child + Maternal Reading on the Front Table |
May 6 | Intersections of the Imagination w Leila Sales on UChicago's Extraordinary Scavenger Hunt & Sarah Rose on D-DAY GIRLS + "Get Away" w Seagull Books |
April 28 | "Throw Out the Radio" w Florence Dore & Luke Fischer on Open Stacks + Making Sense of "Blurbs" & Vast Explorations on This Week's Front Table |
April 22 | Moms, Dads, Grads & Kids 2019 Gift Guide + Wendy Doniger, DaMaris B. Hill, Rachel DeWoskin, CHF's 30th Anniversary, Independent Bookstore Day & More! |
April 14 | In the Stacks w Women Warriors Pamela Toler & Carol Adams + the 2019 Albertine Prize, Barry Lopez's HORIZON & More Journeys Across the Front Table |
April 8 | PICK UP THE PIECES w John Corbett, Harry Harootunian, Emily Bazelon, Damon Young, Teju Cole & CHF's Spring Festival |
March 31 | Spring 2019 UChicago Coursebooks + Notes on Ferlinghetti's 100th Birthday Celebration, Poetic Events & the Front Table podcast |
March 25 | Making Space w Yuval Taylor on ZORA AND LANGSTON, Dieter Roelstraete on KLEINE WELT, Pamela Toler's WOMEN WARRIORS & More |
March 17 | Autobiographies of Song w Hanif Abdurraqib & Timuel Black + MUSICAL VITALITIES on This Week's Front Table |
March 11 | Power & Resistance w Valerie Jarrett + Austin Carson's SECRET WARS, Irad Kimhi's THINKING AND BEING & Daniel Immerwahr on HOW TO HIDE AN EMPIRE |
March 3 | "The opposite of an out-of-body experience" with Eileen Myles, Alasdair Gray's DIVINE COMEDY & Dave Eggers |
February 25 | Rereading the American Experience with Helen Zia, Hanif Abdurraqib, Amber Tamblyn, Alex Kotlowitz, and More! |
February 17 | Time-Illiterate? Try Reading w Marcia Bjornerud, James Joyce & Books Worth Your Time on This Week's Front Table |
February 11 | Leonard Pitts, Jr.'s Historical Page-Turner, Eileen Myles' EVOLUTION, Transformation in the Arts and More! |
February 3 | From a Distance: Rachel Galvin's NEWS OF WAR & Up Close with UNWATCHABLE + Warm Up w Books of Winter Institute |
January 28 | UNWATCHABLE: A Panel Discussion + Stacie Williams' BIZARRO WORLDS, CHICAGO BY THE BOOK & Giants of Critical Theory |
January 20 | Illegibility Writ Large: Dark Ages and Pages with Charles Bernstein and James Bridle + Image, Empire & Expanse on the Front Table |
January 14 | Writing in the Margins + Kirkus Prize Winner Ling Ma, Timuel Black & How Aristotle Can Change Your Life |
January 6 | New Directions w Clarice Lispector + Winter 2019 Course-Books, Emily Krone Phillips on THE MAKE-OR-BREAK YEAR, Éditions Allia & More |
2018 |
December 31 | 2018 By the Books: A Year in Review + Geoffrey Stone on THE FREE SPEECH CENTURY, January Events & New Beginnings on the Front Table |
December 23 | Gifts Worth Giving, Lives Worth Living + Robert Alter's HEBREW BIBLE, Holiday Hours & More! |
December 17 | Front Table Explorations Near & Far + 12 Days of Co-op Notables, Booksellers' Top 5 Books of 2018 & Daniel Levin Becker on READINGS FROM THE OULIPO |
December 3 | Robert Pippin on HEGEL'S REALM OF SHADOWS, Bruce Lincoln's Explorations w Comparison, Giftable Signed Stock + FREE Standard Shipping Through 12/31! |
November 26 | Peaceable Kingdoms of Books w 2018 Gift Guide & Co-op Notables + Marcia Bjornerud's TIMEFULNESS & David Shulman's FREEDOM AND DESPAIR |
November 19 | Reading in an Age of Fear w Jack Zipes' ODDLY MODERN FAIRY TALES & Adam Kotsko on NEOLIBERALISM'S DEMONS + En tête-à-tête w French Lit |
November 13 | Becoming a Stronger Community: Michelle Obama at the Co-op 11/13/18 |
November 5 | The Significance of Experience w Charlene Carruthers, Alberto Manguel, Imani Perry on Lorraine Hansberry & Jack Zipes' Oddly Modern Fairy Tales |
October 29 | Thank you for staying home and reading a book! |
October 29 | Stretching the Art/Life Divide w Sheila Heti's MOTHERHOOD, Martin Patrick In the Stacks, Leonard Mlodinow's ELASTIC & Artful Lives on the Front Table |
October 22 | Get GRAPHIC with CHF + Sennett on ETHICS FOR THE CITY, Epstein on AROUSED, HOW TO SAVE A CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY & Sweet Sounds of The Front Table |
October 18 | Tonight's the Night: Stay Home & Read for Our Non-Gala Gala! |
October 17 | 57th Street Books 35th Anniversary Celebration & Grand Re-opening with Toni Preckwinkle 10/20 + 35th Anniversary Contest! |
October 15 | An Episodic Life w Pulitzer Prize Winner Andrew Sean Greer, Vladimir Nabokov's PNIN, Academic Novels & Scholarly Treats on The Front Table |
October 11 | Where Won't You Sit at the Seminary Co-op Non-Gala Gala? |
October 8 | Martha Nussbaum, Michael Ondaatje, J. M. Coetzee, David Ferry & the Relation of Story to Psyche on This Week's Front Table |
October 4 | A Non-Menu of Bookish Fares for the Seminary Co-op Non-Gala Gala |
September 30 | A Not Uncritical Open Heartedness: Open Stacks Returns w Peter Coviello, Stephen T. Asma, Lives in MIDDLEMARCH & Views From The Front Table |
September 27 | The Seminary Co-op Non-Gala Gala |
September 23 | TIMEFULNESS & Other Metrics on the Front Table + Fall Events Preview w Carol J. Adams, DeRay Mckesson, Justin Driver & More! |
September 16 | Gary Shteyngart's LAKE SUCCESS + Léonora Miano's Novel of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Literary Audacity on the Front Table & the 2018 NBA Longlists |
September 9 | WE'RE DOOMED. NOW WHAT? w Roy Scranton + Barbara Ransby on MAKING ALL BLACK LIVES MATTER, Nnedi Okorafor, Bob Woodward's FEAR & Knausgaard Giveawaay |
September 2 | Preorder Eve Ewing's GHOSTS IN THE SCHOOLYARD & IRONHEART + Dawn Raffel & Stuart Dybek, Jacqueline Woodson, New Fall Poetry & More! |
August 26 | Read It & Eat: Jean Iversen's Chicago Reads + Presidential Picks, New Works by Rilke & James Baldwin, and a Look ACROSS THE ART/LIFE DIVIDE |
August 19 | An Obama Biden Mystery & LOCAL FLAVOR at 57th Street, Shteyngart & McKesson on Sale Now + GOOD NEIGHBOR Giveaway |
August 12 | "Hilarious, Melancholic, Rapier-Sharp": Tickets On Sale for Gary Shteyngart’s LAKE SUCCESS & More + INFINITE RESIGNATION: A Reading List |
August 5 | Save the Date for Carol J. Adams, Roy Scranton & more + the Art of Book Signing w Pope. L |
July 29 | Exemplars of Modernism Shape This Week's FRONT TABLE + Kelli Korducki on BREAKING UP, and a Panel Discussion on AMERICAN HATE |
July 22 | Aaron Leonard on FBI COUNTERINTELLIGENCE & INFILTRATION, Dan Kaufman & Rick Perlstein on THE FALL OF WISCONSIN & Henry Giroux's AMERICAN NIGHTMARE |
July 15 | Tune Into Peter Coviello & Jessica Hopper on LONG PLAYERS + Steve Brusatte on THE RISE & FALL OF THE DINOSAURS & DOLLY PARTON'S MOUNTAIN DREAM |
July 8 | Views from the Front Table & Eve Ewing's Window + Hall Gardner on WORLD WAR TRUMP, David Varel's LOST BLACK SCHOLAR & Caldecott Winner Bryan Collier |
July 1 | Stephen Dillon on QUEER POLITICS OF THE PRISON STATE, Edward McClelland on LEGENDS OF THE MIDDLE WEST, American Histories & a Return to MODERN TIMES |
June 26 | Co-op Chronicle / Vol 2. - No. 1 |
June 24 | Prideful Pages w LGBTQ SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, Alfredo Corchado on THE GREAT MEXICAN-AMERICAN MIGRATION, Anna-Lisa Cox on AMERICA’S FORGOTTEN BLACK PIONEERS |
June 17 | UChicago Summer Coursebooks: Your All Access Pass + The Front Table Charts New Futures & Linda Gartz's Memoir of 1960s Chicago |
June 3 | EDUCATION AT WAR + Stephen Asma on WHY WE NEED RELIGION, Annelise Orleck on THE GLOBAL UPRISING AGAINST POVERTY WAGES & Gwendolyn Brooks 101 |
June 1 | The Co-op Now, as Ever: A Call to Action |
May 28 | SHIFTING THE CITY + Douglas Farr's SUSTAINABLE NATION, Richard Munson on TESLA, AN ACADEMIC LIFE w Hanna Holborn Gray, New Critical Histories & More! |
May 22 | 2018 Sale at the Seminary Co-op & 57th Street Books 6/1-6/30 |
May 21 | Eric Posner on RADICAL MARKETS, Samuel Moyn on HUMAN RIGHTS IN AN UNEQUAL WORLD, Jenny Reardon on THE POSTGENOMIC CONDITION & Mark Bittman at CHF |
May 13 | Pulitzer Prize Winner James Forman Jr. on OPEN STACKS + Christopher Grobe on THE ART OF CONFESSION, Lauren Pond's TEST OF FAITH & Jesmyn Ward at CHF |
May 6 | OPEN STACKS on Marshall Sahlins + Simon Winchester, Jesmyn Ward, Gifts for Moms, Dads, Grads & a Celebration of Hanna Holborn Gray's AN ACADEMIC LIFE |
April 29 | THE MADNESS MACHINE TOUR w Franny Choi & sam sax + Lisa Page on PASSING IN AMERICA, 2018 Laing Prize Winners, and OPEN STACKS on Children's Book Week |
April 22 | CHF Gets GRAPH!C + Ted Rall on THE PEOPLE’S POPE, Edward Tenner on WHAT BIG DATA CAN’T DO, Poetry & Place (& Food!) |
April 15 | Andrew Santella on PROCRASTINATION, Brian McCammack on NATURE AND THE GREAT MIGRATION, Wendy Mogel on VOICE LESSONS FOR PARENTS, URBAN READERS & More! |
April 8 | Laing Prize at 55, David Faris FIGHTS DIRTY, Reading/Performance by David Grubbs, Poets Valerie Wallace & Ana Ristovic + ALL THINGS POETRY on PERSON-A |
April 2 | ALL THINGS POETRY on OPEN STACKS + Kathryn Lofton & Alan Thomas, Anthony Ray Hinton, and a Celebration of the Life & Work of Ted Cohen |
March 25 | SPRING UCHICAGO COURSEBOOKS & TRADING CARDS + OPEN STACKS on TRANSLATION, Wendy Doniger on AGAINST DHARMA & Leonard Mlodinow on ELASTIC |
March 18 | Toussaint Losier on OPEN STACKS + Orly Lobel on Barbie's Dark Side and Catalina Florina Florescu on TRANSNATIONAL NARRATIVES IN ENGLISHES OF EXILE |
March 11 | NBA Winner Daniel Borzutzky on LAKE MICHIGAN, Tim Mehigan on J.M. COETZEE, Reza Aslan & ART & TIME on OPEN STACKS |
March 4 | Help Us Help You Find French Lit + HISTORY FROM BELOW, Adam Winkler on WE THE CORPORATIONS & National Poetry Slam Champion Elizabeth Acevedo |
February 25 | Marc Lamont Hill on OPEN STACKS + Thomas Dodman on WHAT NOSTALGIA WAS, Natalie Hopkinson on A MOUTH IS ALWAYS MUZZLED & STRONG WOMEN OF ROMANCE |
February 18 | In Search of French Lit + André Aciman, Will Boast on DAPHNE, Haun Saussy on TRANSLATION AS CITATION & Jeffrey Tulis on LEGACIES OF LOSING |
February 11 | CORRECTION: Say Bienvenue to French Lit + OPEN STACKS on BLACK MUSICS, Ben Austen on HIGH-RISERS, Scriptnotes' John August & More! |
February 4 | Lisa Page on PASSING IN AMERICA, Neda Maghbouleh on THE LIMITS OF WHITENESS, Our Final Caption Contest Winner and Hegemonies & Tech on OPEN STACKS |
January 28 | Myths & Folktales on OPEN STACKS + Ganesh Sitaraman on THE CRISIS OF THE MIDDLE-CLASS CONSTITUTION and Michael Gallope on DEEP REFRAINS |
January 21 | EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHY w Ed. Glenn Most + Life on Film on OPEN STACKS, Laura Engelstein on RUSSIA IN FLAMES, Laura Letinsky & John Muse on TIME & ART |
January 14 | Denis Johnson Tribute Tour, William Mazzarella on THE MANA OF MASS SOCIETY, Journeys Through Anxiety on OPEN STACKS, #1 Caption Contest Winner & More! |
January 7 | Winter 2018 Co-op Trading Cards, Prizes & Chance to Win 25 LOEB CLASSICS + Smart Museum Curators on REVOLUTION EVERY DAY, and SINGING IN DARK TIMES |
2017 |
December 31 | Ce-LOEB-rate the LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY + Steven J. Ross on HITLER IN LOS ANGELES and 2017 Co-op Staff Favorites! |
December 24 | Winter 2018 Coursebooks + A Year in Review on OPEN STACKS, Mary Beard's WOMEN & POWER and More New Selections from the FRONT TABLE |
December 18 | Co-op Chronicle / Vol 1. - No. 2 |
December 18 | Home for the Holidays with OPEN STACKS, Only-at-the-Co-op Gift Ideas & More! |
December 10 | FREE Holiday Shipping Ends Soon + SINGING IN DARK TIMES, Jonathan Eig on ALI, David N. Schwartz on ENRICO FERMI & Eileen Myles' Dog-Eared Reading |
December 3 | Augustus Rose & Baird Harper on OPEN STACKS + Jonathan Losos on IMPROBABLE DESTINIES, Daniel Ellsberg at the AWM & the 56th Annual Shareholder Meeting |
November 26 | CORRECTION: National Book Award Winner Masha Gessen & Franz Nicolay on OPEN STACKS + Marshall Sahlins, Luvvie Ajayi, and THE CHICAGO MANUAL OF STYLE |
November 24 | 2017 Co-op Notables & Holiday Gift Guide + FREE Standard Shipping Through 12/31! |
November 19 | Open Stacks on UNNATURAL HUNGERS + George Stigler's Economist Postcards, Kaushik Sunder Rajan on PHARMOCRACY, THE RISE & DECLINE OF US GLOBAL POWER |
November 12 | Jed Perl on CALDER + Resmaa Menakem on Racialized Trauma, Richard Stern's OTHER MEN'S DAUGHTERS, Mike Duncan on THE STORM BEFORE THE STORM & Teju Cole |
November 5 | FUTURES OF BLACK RADICALISM + James McAdams on World Communism, Julia Alekseyeva & Hillary Chute on SOVIET DAUGHTER, Jed Perl's Selected Bibliography |
October 29 | BOOKS OF THE (UN)DEAD + Robert B. Pippin on THE PHILOSOPHICAL HITCHCOCK, Martha Nussbaum & Saul Levmore on AGING THOUGHTFULLY, THE DEVIL & THE BLUES |
October 22 | NBA Finalist Masha Gessen on THE FUTURE IS HISTORY + Bill Goldstein on THE WORLD BROKE IN TWO, OBJECT LESSONS, and THE TRANSFORMATION OF BLACK MUSIC |
October 16 | Eileen Myles on Open Stacks, Humanities Day + Humanities Fest, Lit & Luz, and Hill, Patch & Schlichtman on GENTRIFIER |
October 9 | WHAT THE QUR'AN MEANT w Garry Wills, WHO READS POETRY w Poetry's Don Share & Fred Sasaki, Alice Kaplan's Paris Reads + BECOMING GOD IN ANCIENT EGYPT |
October 2 | Celebrate CHICAGO STYLE w the University of Chicago Press + New Fall Literature, Eve Ewing on ELECTRIC ARCHES and Liesl Olson on CHICAGO RENAISSANCE |
September 24 | Back to School w Eileen Myles, UCHI 101 on Open Stacks, Co-op Trading Cards, Thad Vogler + Mezcal @ 57th Street Wines & More! |
Septembr 18 | FALL '17 UCHICAGO COURSEBOOKS + HYDE PARK LEGENDS & LORE, New Poetry w Anthony Madrid, Elise Paschen & POETRY Magazine, THE CHINESE TYPEWRITER & More! |
September 10 | AUTUMN COMES EARLY w Karl Ove Knausgaard + AURAL FIXATIONS w John Corbett & Superchunk's Matt Macaughan, Cheryl Reed & Sara Paretsky on POISON GIRLS! |
September 3 | Welcome SIMTEMBER w the Penguin Maigret Series + Classics, SUMMER IS OVE w KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD, TAMIL SAINTS & POETS w/ David Shulman and Ravi Shankar |
August 27 | RUST BELT CHICAGO: AN ANTHOLOGY + "MATTERS OF TASTE" on OPEN STACKS, Enter to Win Wine from 57th St Wines and Make Some Noise for THE BOOK OF DISQUIET |
August 20 | OPEN STACKS #15 FAITH IN CHOICE: Dr. Willie Parker & D. A. Dirks + More Books / More Looks of Disquiet and Selections from THE FRONT TABLE |
August 14 | Camille Bordas w Jessica Anne on HOW TO BEHAVE IN A CROWD, Bruce R. Wilkerson + Open Stacks BEYOND BARS w Susan Burton, Michaela Soyer & Sharlyn Grace |
August 7 | Books/Looks of Disquiet w Pessoa & New Directions + Open Stacks on Saul Steinberg & George Herriman, Jeremy McCarter on YOUNG RADICALS |
August 3 | Karl Ove Knausgaard: Tickets on Sale Now! |
July 30 | Open Stacks on American Healthcare + Readings by Susan Blumberg-Kason & Sonali Dev, Politics & Enhancing Life: A Selected Bibliography and New Criticism |
July 24 | Co-op Chronicle / Vol 1. - No. 1 |
July 23 | At Home in the Wild on OPEN STACKS, Richard V. Reeves w WBEZ's Odette Yousef on DREAM HOARDERS, ENHANCING LIFE: A Public Interdisciplinary Conference |
July 17 | SEX ED on OPEN STACKS + David Daley w Rick Perlstein on RATF**KED, John Corbett on VINYL FREAK, Silver Room Summer Launch Party w Duriel E. Harris! |
July 10 | SHAKE IT UP w Thoreau & Library of America + Theater Oobleck's BAUDELAIRE IN A BOX, COMFORT FOOD: MEANINGS & MEMORIES, Detective Abe Lincoln and More! |
July 3 | Celebrate Revolutionary Literature with Thoreau and the Library of America + China Mièville on OPEN STACKS, Selections from The Front Table and More! |
June 25 | June 2017 Sale Ends Soon + Selected Reading by Arundhati Roy & Edward Moore, Open Stacks w Simon Critchley, Indie Bookstores' Summer Reads and More! |
June 19 | Tour CHICAGO'S GRAND MIDWAY w Norman Bolotin + Haroon Moghul on HOW TO BE A MUSLIM, Edward K. Moore w the Chicago Sinfonietta & Arundhati Roy Returns! |
June 11 | LOVE ON TRIAL w Kris Perry & Sandy Stier, Sarah Shourd on Solitary Confinement, Mary Plouffe on Grief & Childhood, TO OFFER COMPASSION: A BIBLIOGRAPHY |
June 5 | Mark Pascale on SAUL STEINBERG, Sidney Blumenthal on LINCOLN, INSIDE CLINTON'S CAMPAIGN, BRONZEVILLE AT NIGHT & a Graphic History of MODERN PHILOSOPHY |
June 1 | On the Necessity of Books: A Call to Action |
May 28 | Introducing Open Stacks: The Seminary Co-op Bookstore Podcast + Angela Jackson on Gwendolyn Brooks, Kevin Coval and the Co-op's June Sale |
May 21 | A Reading by Simon Critchley + China Miéville on OCTOBER, Laura Kipnis on UNWANTED ADVANCES, and the Pleasure and Pain of Translating GHALIB! |
May 19 | 2017 Sale at the Seminary Co-op & 57th Street Books 6/1-6/30 |
May 15 | Wendy Doniger on MYTHS OF SEX & JEWELRY, David J. Garrow on THE MAKING OF BARACK OBAMA, A CLASSICAL EDUCATION GONE ASTRAY + RALPH ELLISON'S THEOLOGY |
May 9 | CORRECTION: Books & Wine w CORK DORK Bianca Bosker + SEX & THE CONSTITUTION, MACHIAVELLI'S POLITICS, GREEK & ROMAN FOLKTALES |
May 1 | James Forman Jr. on LOCKING UP OUR OWN + Dr. Willie Parker, Poets August Kleinzahler and Susan Stewart, and 57th Street Books' Spring 2017 Gift Guide! |
April 24 | Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal on AN AMERICAN SICKNESS, Siddhartha Mukherjee on THE GENE, Lisa Wade on AMERICAN HOOKUP, Angela Jackson's New Novel and More! |
April 17 | Eliot Weinberger on Harvard UP's Murty Classical Library + Deb Olin Unferth & Eula Biss, Poets Vincent Katz & Charles Borkhuis, and St. Jordi 2017! |
April 14 | Video of Co-op Town Hall Meeting & Further Resources |
April 10 | NPR's Scott Simon on MY CUBS: A LOVE STORY, Catharine A. MacKinnon on BUTTERFLY POLITICS, Ravi Shankar on ANDAL + Advice for Poets from UChicago Press |
April 3 | Celebrate University Press Poetry Month and Czesław Miłosz + David Shulman's TAMIL, Philippe Desan's MONTAIGNE, Gwendolyn Brooks at 100 |
March 29 | Reminder: Co-op Town Hall Meeting 4/13 |
March 27 | Spring 2017 Coursebooks + Donna Seaman Rediscovers Seven Women Artists, FIELD RECORDINGS FROM THE INSIDE, Poets Rosanna Warren & Jennifer Scappettone |
March 19 | CITIZENSHIP AND RIGHTS: A Selected Bibliography + NBA Freedom Fighter Craig Hodges and Award Winning Fiction by Deepak Unnikrishnan and Boris Fishman |
March 12 | REVISE THE PSALM: WORK CELEBRATING GWENDOLYN BROOKS + Ross Lipman's Beckett Bibliography, Dan Egan on THE DEATH AND LIFE OF THE GREAT LAKES, and More! |
March 6 | Henry Giroux on Reading and Thinking Dangerously + Steve Early on REFINERY TOWN, Ada Palmer on SEVEN SURRENDERS, and New Poetry by Elizabeth Arnold |
February 28 | Save the Date: Co-op Town Hall Meeting 4/13 |
February 27 | Celebrating the Complete Works of Seneca + Kate Hennessey on Dorothy Day, David Moss on DEMOCRACY w Richard Posner & CRITICAL READS |
February 19 | Carolyn Purnell on THE SENSATIONAL PAST + THE LITERARY AFTERLIFE OF RELIGION, KENT STATE: DEATH AND DISSENT, Pola Oloixarac's CRITICAL READS and More! |
February 15 | The Future of the Co-op: A Message from the Director |
February 13 | Critical Reading by Sarah Hammerschlag + VIOLENCE AS A GENERATIVE FORCE, FRESH AYERS w Andy Carter & Rachel Branham, Matt Eisenbrandt on Óscar Romero |
February 5 | #READING IS CRITICAL + Su’ad Abdul Khabeer on MUSLIM COOL, Marie Hicks on PROGRAMMED INEQUALITY, and New Books in 18th Century Studies |
January 29 | Jonathan Lear w Martha Nussbaum on WISDOM WON FROM ILLNESS, Michael Tisserand on KRAZY, An Excerpt from THE SENSATIONAL PAST + MOOMINLAND MIDWINTER! |
January 22 | Michael Eric Dyson w Natalie Moore + Franklin Gamwell on Religious Freedom & Democracy, Gillian Thomas on BECAUSE OF SEX, THE POPE OF PHYSICS & More! |
January 15 | Michael Eric Dyson on TEARS WE CANNOT STOP, Pamela Roberston Wojcik on FANTASIES OF NEGLECT, Adam Kotsko on The Problem of Evil + COMEDY: AN ISSUE |
January 8 | Announcing A CEERES of Voices w Domnica Radulescu + Emily Lordi on DONNY HATHAWAY LIVE, New Poetry by Peter O'Leary, Steven Toussaint and Clint Smith |
January 2 | Bundle up w WINTER '17 UCHICAGO COURSE BOOKS + Tim Lapetino on ART OF ATARI, THINKING ABOUT THE TORAH w Kenneth Seeskin, and 31 Days of E. M. Cioran! |
2016 |
December 27 | 2017 Events Preview with Michael Eric Dyson, Jonathan Lear, Ayana Mathis and More, a Donny Hathaway Reading List + Fill Your Co-op Tote for $5! |
December 19 | "Notable" Books and Events of 2016, Selected Reading by Darby English, Holiday Book Drive and More! |
December 11 | Storytime w/ Stacey Previn on IF SNOWFLAKES TASTED LIKE FRUITCAKE, Franny's December Favs + Give (and Get) "Thanks" This Holiday w/ a Co-op Gift Card! |
December 4 | Co-op Notable Books of 2016 and FREE SHIPPING EXTENDED + Tyehimba Jess on OLIO, R. J. Nelson on DIRTY WATERS, Poets Reginald Gibbons and Alan Shapiro |
November 29 | Give thanks with Seminary Co-op gift cards |
November 27 | FREE SHIPPING ENDS 11/30 + Keramet Reiter on Solitary Confinement, Robyn C. Spencer on Black Power, SNOW DAY at 57th St. and our HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE! |
November 20 | In Conversation: Marshall Sahlins + John Eklund's University Press Favorites, Niall Atkinson on THE NOISY RENAISSANCE and Storytime w Special Guests! |
November 13 | Celebrate Community w/ University Press Week + Peter Frase on LIFE AFTER CAPITALISM, Robert Strauss on WORST PRESIDENT EVER, Cookie Johnson and MORE! |
November 7 | FREE MEDIA MAIL SHIPPING 11/9-30 + DEBATING DARWIN, Joshua Clover on UPRISINGS, Kate Hannigan BOOK LAUNCH, Marshall Sahlins: In Conversation & 10% off |
October 31 | EGYPTOMANIA: A Selected Bibliography + Medea Benjamin on KINGDOM OF THE UNJUST, Scott Bruce on THE PENGUIN BOOK OF THE UNDEAD, Au Revoir ANGST-TOBER! |
October 24 | COURTING DEATH: A Selected Bibliography + Marcus Samuelsson on THE RED ROOSTER COOKBOOK, Steven Sherrill, and Halloween Fun at 57th Street Books! |
October 17 | ANGST-TOBER endures w Alice Kaplan on LOOKING FOR "THE STRANGER" and Eliot Weinberger on THE GHOSTS OF BIRDS + Confronting Trump and Fundamentalism |
October 12 | Seminary Co-op Board Seeks Nominations |
October 10 | Lloyd Sachs on T BONE BURNETT, Forrest Stuart on DOWN, OUT, & UNDER ARREST, Christine Sneed and Shawn Shiflett on Virginity + Celebrating the Co-op! |
October 6 | Zadie Smith: Tickets on Sale Fri. 10/7 12pm |
October 2 | William Domnarski & Judge Richard Posner, Dr. Lori A. Barker on OBAMA ON OUR MINDS, Aaron Schuster on THE TROUBLE W PLEASURE + Q&A w Carol Becker |
September 25 | Bill Ayers on DEMAND THE IMPOSSIBLE, Identity Politics and/as Class Politics with Walter Benn Michaels, Announcing the Urban Readers Series and More! |
September 19 | Ed Yong on the Microbes Within Us, John Freeman on FAMILY, Timothy Garton Ash on FREE SPEECH, Hillary Clinton's Faux Feminism + Celebrate Roald Dahl! |
September 11 | Colson Whitehead w Natalie Moore on THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, The Hold Steady's Franz Nicolay, FRESH AYERS w Alan Wieder on STUDS TERKEL + Magritte! |
September 5 | Back to School w Nicholson Baker and Bill Ayers, OUT OF THE WRECK I Rise: A Recovery Reading List, Franny's September Picks + OFF Course Books! |
August 29 | Events 8/29-9/12: Nicholson Baker on SUBSTITUTE with Bill Ayers, Chinaka Hodge on DATED EMCEES + See summer through with Penguin Classics! |
August 21 | Events 8/22-8/29: Darryl "DMC" McDaniels on TEN WAYS NOT TO COMMIT SUICIDE, Showcase of Queer Chicago Poets with Jay Besemer, H.Melt and Evan Kleekamp |
August 14 | Events 8/15-8/22: Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche on OUR PRISTINE MIND, Trio Accord in concert, Campout at 57th St Books, Skip the trip with Penguin Classics! |
August 8 | Events 8/8-8/15: Mychal Denzel Smith on INVISIBLE MAN, GOT THE WHOLE WORLD WATCHING and Marc Lamont Hill on NOBODY + Have Penguin Classics will travel |
July 31 | Pack light with Penguin Classics + Late Summer Events Preview and Franny's August Picks! |
July 24 | Events 7/25-8/1: HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD Midnight Release Party at 57th Street Books + Last Week to Save (on the Library of) America! |
July 17 | Events 7/18-7/25: John Koethe on THE SWIMMER and David Trinidad on NOTES ON A PAST LIFE + staff recs of LoA and Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Winners |
July 10 | Events 7/11-7/18: Aaron Shkuda on THE LOFTS OF SOHO, Julie Byrne on THE OTHER CATHOLICS, Children's Literature 'Ask the Agent' Fest + More LoA! |
July 3 | Events 7/4-7/11: Kalisha Buckhanon on SOLEMN, Q&A w Julie Byrne, Celebrate The Boston Globe Horn Book Awards and (the Library of) America! |
June 26 | Events 6/27-7/4: Liza Featherstone, Doug Henwood, Yasmin Nair and Kathleen Geier on Hillary Clinton's Faux Feminism + Final Days of Member Sale! |
June 19 | Events 6/20-6/27: LaShonda Katrice Barnett on JAM ON THE VINE, WOMEN ARTISTS OF LATIN AMERICAN Stencil Workshop + Craft Talk with Edward Kelsey Moore |
June 12 | Events 6/13-6/20: Michael Harvey on BRIGHTON, Karen Greenberg on ROGUE JUSTICE, RICKIPEDIA with Jason Stahl on RIGHT MOVES + Co-op Stories |
June 6 | Events 6/6-6/13: Cass R. Sunstein on STAR WARS, Toni Nealie & Aviya Kushner, Catherine Fennell on LAST PROJECT STANDING + Q&A with Martin Seay |
May 31 | The Future of the Co-op: A Call to Action from the Director |
May 29 | Events 5/30-6/6: Martha Nussbaum on ANGER & FORGIVENESS, Jean Trounstine on BOY WITH A KNIFE, New Children's Manager Franny Billingsley + Member Sale! |
May 22 | Events 5/23-5/30: Philip Bohlman on JAZZ WORLDS/WORLD JAZZ, Martin Seay on THE MIRROR THIEF, David Satter on RUSSIA'S ROAD TO TERROR & DICTATORSHIP |
May 20 | Annual Member Sale 6/1-6/30! |
May 16 | Events 5/16-5/23: Dan Fox on PRETENTIOUSNESS, Ada Palmer on TOO LIKE THE LIGHTNING, Jonathan Cole on TOWARD A MORE PERFECT UNIVERSITY, + Ana Castillo! |
May 9 | Events 5/9-5/16: Books from Poland! + Simon Montefiore on THE ROMANOVS, Larissa MacFarquhar on STRANGERS DROWNING, MASTERS OF MAPS Children's Program |
May 2 | Events 5/2-5/9: Campbell McGrath on XX, Sayed Kashua on NATIVE, Bill Ayers BOOK LAUNCH, Adina Hoffman, Deirdre McCloskey, + Publish or Parody Contest! |
April 25 | Events 4/25-5/2: Kirstin Chen on SOY SAUCE FOR BEGINNERS, French author Andreï Makine, Will Howell on RELIC, LPS on AFTER SCALIA, INDIE BOOKSTORE DAY! |
April 17 | Events 4/18-4/25: Celebrate St. Jordi's and #PocketPoem Day + Mary Ann Newman on PRIVATE LIFE, Wendy Doniger on REDEEMING THE KAMASUTRA, FRESH AYERS |
April 11 | Events 4/11-4/18: Liesl Shurtliff BOOK LAUNCH - RED, NYTimes' A. O. Scott on BETTER LIVING THROUGH CRITICISM, + Whiting Award Winner Brian Blanchfield |
April 3 | Events 4/4-4/11: Celebrating Michael Fishbane, Haun Saussy on THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF RHYTHM, Kettly Mars on SAVAGE SEASONS, FRENCH VOICES Q&A, PoetryMonth |
March 28 | Events 3/28-4/4: Natalie Moore on THE SOUTH SIDE, Daniel Raeburn on VESSELS, 4 Editors of Critical Inquiry, Barry Schwabsky on THE PERPETUAL GUEST |
March 21 | Events 3/21-2/28: Essays from the Iowa Writing Program, Paul Engler on Nonviolent Revolt, John Corbett on Free Improvisation, + Coloring Workshop! |
March 13 | Course Books NOW! + Events 3/14-3/21: Matthew Desmond on EVICTED, Paul Lisicky & Garth Greenwell, 30 Years of Essays from the Iowa Writing Program |
March 6 | Events 3/7-3/14: John D'Agata on the American Essay, Stephen Stigler's Statistical Wisdom + Shaka Senghor Writes His Wrongs |
February 29 | Events 2/29-3/8: Deborah Jian Lee on RESCUING JESUS, Wendell Potter & Nick Penniman on NATION ON THE TAKE, LPS on "Campus Wars," + Attempt to Essay! |
February 22 | Events 2/22-2/29: Daniel Zamora on FOUCAULT AND NEOLIBERALISM, Toni Sala on THE BOYS, Lester K. Spence on KNOCKING THE HUSTLE + Last Days of Adorno |
February 14 | Events 2/15-2/22: LPS w Rick Perlstein on "Trump as Fascist?", Maylis De Kerangal on THE HEART, FOUCAULT AND NEOLIBERALISM, and Q&A w Two Lines Press |
February 7 | Events 2/8-2/15: Lou Agosta on EMPATHY, Tanisha C. Ford on LIBERATED THREADS, Poet Ed Roberson, Rave Reviews for Garth Greenwell's WHAT BELONGS TO YOU |
January 31 | Events 2/1-2/8: Lawrence Hill on THE ILLEGAL, Leif Wenar on BLOOD OIL, John Donvan & Caren Zucker on THE STORY OF AUTISM, + ADORNO A DAY |
January 24 | Events 1/25-2/1: John Hagedorn on THE INSANE CHICAGO WAY, Brian T. Edwards on AFTER THE AMERICAN CENTURY, Literary Public Sphere on Islam in France |
January 17 | Events 1/18-1/25: Ethan Michaeli on THE DEFENDER, Celebrating Michael Fishbane, Aviya Kushner on THE GRAMMAR OF GOD, & Q&A w/ Carlos Labbé |
January 10 | Events 1/11-1/18: Jason Moore on CAPITALISM IN THE WEB OF LIFE, Margo Jefferson on NEGROLAND, RICKIPEDIA & FRESH AYERS |
January 3 | Welcome JOUBERTuary with 10% Off All NYRB Classics & Casey B. Mulligan on SIDE EFFECTS AND COMPLICATIONS |
2015 |
December 27 | A Look Back and Ahead, with Margo Jefferson on NEGROLAND, LPS on ISLAM IN FRANCE, and More |
December 6 | Events 12/7-12/14: 54th Annual Member Meeting, Alexander Wolff's AUDACITY OF HOOP |
November 29 | Events 11/30-12/7, Holiday Gift Guide Ed.: Dana Suskind on 30 MILLION WORDS, Lit. Public Sphere on Autism, Joy-Ann Reid on FRACTURE |
November 15 | Events 11/16-11/23: Dominic Pacyga on SLAUGHTERHOUSE, Curtis White on WE, ROBOTS, Lit. Public Sphere on Syria w/Lisa Wedeen |
November 8 | Events 11/9-11/16: Garth Risk Hallberg on CITY ON FIRE, French Lit in the US w/Luc Sante & Aleksandar Hemon, Sheila Fitzpatrick on ON STALIN'S TEAM |
November 1 | Events 11/2-11/9: Greg Grandin on KISSINGER'S SHADOW, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Sarah Weinman + Sara Paretsky on WOMEN CRIME WRITERS |
October 26 | Events 10/26-11/2: Jonathan Fineberg + Theaster Gates, Lit. Public Sphere w/Charles Mills, Harry Harootunian on Marx, Robert Lax's "Uncommon Life" |
October 19 | Events 10/19-10/26: John Boyer on THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: A HISTORY, Walter Benn Michaels, Jonathan Fineberg + Theaster Gates |
October 11 | Events 10/12-10/19: Vu Tran's DRAGONFISH, the BreakBeat Poets, NEIN: A Manifesto, Graywolf Poetry Tour & a BAFFLER Forum |
October 5 | Events 10/5-10/12: FREEMAN'S Release w/John Freeman + Aleksandar Hemon, Kristin Hersh, Naja Marie Aidt + More |
September 28 | Events 9/28-10/5, Back to School Edition: From Pope Francis to the Anthropocene |
September 21 | Events 9/21-9/28: Poetry Reading with Parneshia Jones & Ellen Hagan, NIGHTFALL Release with Peter Kujawinski & Jake Halpern |
September 14 | Events 9/14-9/21: Peter Wächtler, Georgi Gospodinov, Cecilia Vicuña |
September 7 | Events 9/7-9/14: Hal Foster, Andrés Neuman & CAConrad |
August 23 | Events 8/24-31: Zachary Leader on Saul Bellow, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on "An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States" with Bill Ayers |
August 16 | Events 8/17-8/31: Christine Sneed, Zachary Leader on Saul Bellow + Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on "An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States" |
August 7 | Readers at Robie: An Exclusive Offer with the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust |
July 23 | Important Details: President Jimmy Carter Book Signing at the Co-op 7/24 |
July 20 | Events 7/20-8/2: President Jimmy Carter, Sara Paretsky, Layne Mosler w/Dmitry Samarov |
July 5 | July Events: President Jimmy Carter, Sara Paretsky, Women of Mystery Panel |
July 2 | Co-op Member Credits Now Available |
June 29 | Book Signing with Former President Jimmy Carter on July 24 |
June 15 | Events 6/15-6/29 + July Preview |
June 7 | Events 6/8-6/15: Saul Bellow Centennial Celebration, H.W. Brands on Reagan, Dolen Perkins-Valez + Michael Žantovský on Václav Havel |
May 31 | Events 6/1-6/8: Annual Sale, 57th Street Art Fair + UChicago Alumni Weekend Edition |
May 24 | Events 5/25-6/1: Taigen Dan Leighton, n + 1's "City by City," Steve Fiffer & Adar Cohen on "Jimmie Lee & James" |
May 22 | Annual Member Sale 5/30 - 6/7 + Improved Member Credit Program |
May 17 | Events 5/18 - 5/25: Conscientious Objector Rory Fanning, Yiddish Culture After the Holocaust + "Educating for Insurgency" |
May 10 | 50% Off Sale + Events 5/11-5/18: Aleksandar Hemon @ the Hideout, Elizabeth Alexander, Alice Dreger + 6 Authors at Jimmy's |
May 3 | Events 5/4-5/11: Sandy Tolan, "The Mathematician's Shiva" "Galileo's Middle Finger" + More |
April 26 | Events 4/27-5/4: 2014 Booker Prize Winner Richard Flanagan, Independent Bookstore Day + the Final Acts of Poetry Month |
April 19 | Events 4/20-4/27: Doctors, Detectives, Dystopia + "Becoming Richard Pryor" |
April 12 | Events 4/13-4/20: Katha Pollitt, Chigozie Obioma, Liesl Shurtliff Book Launch + "The WPA Papers" |
April 5 | Events 4/6-4/13: Amit Chaudhuri x2, David Krugler on 1919 Race Riots & an Afternoon at the Robie House |
March 29 | Events 3/30 - 4/5: Blue Balliett Book Release, David Roediger w/Micah Uetricht, "Octavia's Brood" + non-Easter "Eggs" |
March 22 | Events, the Ish Edition: Kazuo Ishiguro w/Aleksandar Hemon, Aron Dunlap on Lacan & "Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction from Social Movements" |
March 15 | March (Events) Madness: Garry Wills, Bill Ayers w/Crystal Laura, Jo Walton, Gillian O'Brien & Jeanne Bishop Book Launch |
March 8 | Events, International Women's Day Edition: Wonder Woman, Ethel Payne, Jo Walton + Fresh Ayers w/Crystal Laura |
March 1 | Events, Ish of March Edition: Michael Heaney w/Bill Ayers, Poetry x2 & Žižek-endorsed "Creepiness" |
February 23 | Events 2/23-3/2: Kazuo Ishiguro tickets on sale, Boris Fishman, and Memoryhouse Magazine release party |
February 20 | From the Vaults: Harper Lee + Laura Ingalls Wilder Pre-orders and a Back Stock Sale |
February 15 | Events 2/16-2/23: David Axelrod, 3 UChicago Poets & the Legacy of Dr. Julian H. Lewis |
February 8 | Events 2/9-2/16: Charles Baxter, Vladimir Pištalo, David Axelrod |
February 1 | Events 2/2 - 2/12: Spanish Literature(s) in Translation, Charles Baxter, Vladimir Pištalo & Other Reasons to Dig Out |
January 25 | Events 1/26-2/1: Cornel West, Human Rights, Experimental Theater + Other Ways to Welcome February |
January 18 | Events 1/21-1/28: 3CT Cocktail Reception, #WeNeedDiverseBooks Panel Discussion & Other Balms for Winter Blues |
January 13 | Introducing... Winter Events with the Co-op: Tournaments, Parties and Other Reasons to Brave the Cold |
2014 |
December 8 | Events 12/8 - 12/31: En Guerre, Launches, Salons & a Guide |
December 5 | Reminder: Membership Meeting + 10% Off 12/8 |
December 3 | Holiday shopping the Wright way |
December 1 | Events 12/2 - 12/7: From Paretsky to Picture Books + so much more |
November 28 | Small Business Saturday, 2014 Holiday Gift Guide + Event Preview |
November 20 | 2014 National Book Award Winners + Ursula K. Le Guin's call to arms |