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Open Stacks — 100 episodes
Havens for the Heterodox: Seminary Co-op Director Jeff Deutsch on Good Bookstores
Meeting Again: Mikki Kendall, Jack Cella, & Colin McDonald
Curiosity Is a Skill: On Reading Seriously
A Cave with Windows: Bookstore as Building
At All Costs: Dave Eggers, Dan Wells, Ann Kjellberg, & Paul Yamazaki
What's There and What's Not: A Visit to the Front Table
Escape Tunnel: Philip Leventhal on The Front Table
Place to Place: Katarzyna Bartoszyńska & Reuben Jonathan Miller
A Land Without Trees: A Visit to the Front Table
Washing a Book: Elizabeth Branch Dyson, Eve Ewing, and Ann Kjellberg
Common Languages: A Visit to the Front Table
A Spirit in the Space: On Reopening Our Doors
Observer Observed: A Visit to the Front Table
Not New in a New Way: Elizabeth Branch Dyson & Haki Madhubuti
Open Stacks Returns
Narrative Threads: Jordan Alexander Stein & Jasmon Drain
Books on Books: Craig Fehrman, Anna Kornbluh & Booksellers Off the Clock
Visual Memories: Berthold Hoeckner, Leila Taylor & Adam Sonderberg
The Front Table: 2/13/20
Picture Book
The Front Table: 1/29/20
Children Aren't Boats: Kim Brooks, Julissa Arce & Franny Billingsley
The Front Table: 12/3/19
Out of Season: Kathryn Scanlan & Devin Johnston
The Front Table: 11/19/19
How to Explode Slowly: Etgar Keret, Jessica Laser & Daniel Poppick
The Front Table: 11/5/19
World Makers: Ocean Vuong & Rebecca Clarren
The Front Table: 10/21/19
Placemaking: Timothy Cresswell & Dani Shapiro
The Front Table: 9/26/19
The Front Table: 9/12/19
The Front Table: 8/27/19
The Front Table: 8/13/19
The Front Table: 7/30/19
The Front Table: 7/16/19
The Front Table: 6/20/19
"The one things happen to": Robert Launay & Noura Erakat
The Front Table: 6/5/19
Are We There Yet? Amit Chaudhuri & Evelyn Hampton
The Front Table: 5/21/19
Exoteric Advice: Edith Hall & Helen Rosner
The Front Table: 5/7/19
"Throw Out the Radio": Florence Dore, Luke Fischer + Making Sense of "Blurbs"
The Front Table: 4/23/19
Women Warriors: Pamela Toler & Carol J. Adams
The Front Table: 3/26/19
Autobiography of Song: Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib & Timuel Black
The Front Table: 3/12/19
"The opposite of an out-of-body experience": In the Stacks with Eileen Myles + The "Gentle Madness" of Collecting Books
Time-Literate: Marcia Bjornerud on Timefulness and James Joyce's Ulysses
From a Distance: Rachel Galvin's NEWS OF WAR & Up Close with UNWATCHABLE
Illegibility Writ Large: Dark Ages and Pages with Charles Bernstein and James Bridle
Books Worth Giving, Lives Worth Living: Imani Perry, Norman C. Ellstrand, Co-op Booksellers' Top 5 of 2018
Something Like Freedom: David Ferry, David Shulman & Michelle Obama's "Becoming"
Peaceable Kingdoms of Books: Liam Heneghan, Bill Ayers & The Diary of a Bookseller
To Live and Read in an Age of Fear: Jack Zipes, Scott G. Bruce, & Conor Bean
BONUS: A Conversation with Kristen Ciccarelli and Franny Billingsley
A short tale from hell as told by Scott G. Bruce
Two Roads Diverged: Sheila Heti's MOTHERHOOD, Leonard Mlodinow on ELASTIC, and In the Stacks with Martin Patrick
An Episodic Life: Andrew Sean Greer, Malynne Sternstein, and Seminary Co-op on Campus Novels
A Not Uncritical Open Heartedness: Peter Coviello, Stephen T Asma, & the Seminary Co-op on Middlemarch
#55 Biblio-files - Co-op Legends: Hanna Holborn Gray
#54 101 - A Celebration of Gwendolyn Brooks
#53: Shifting the City - Ben Austen, LaDale C. Winling, & Gordon Douglas
#52 In Search of French Lit Part Deux: Jordan Stump, Jonathan Larson, & Katie Kadue
#51 Prison Nation: James Forman, Jr. & Sarah Shourd
#50 Biblio-files: Co-op Legends - Marshall Sahlins
#49 Children's Book Week: Javaka Steptoe & Elizabeth Acevedo
All Things Poetry: Place - Andy Fitch, Miquel Àngel Llauger, Joshua Beckman, & Patrick Morrissey
#47 All Things Poetry - Thing: Cecilia Vicuña and Jen Bervin
#46 All Things Poetry - Person: Anthony Madrid & Duriel E. Harris
#45 All Things Poetry - Idea: Daniel Borzutzky, Nate Marshall, & Robert Darnton
#44 Translations: Haun Saussy & Yoon Sun Yang
#43 Institutions: Toussaint Losier, Michael C. Dawson, Crystal Laura, & Bill Ayers
#42 Art & Time: Pamela Bannos, Laura Letinsky, & John Muse
#41 History from Below: William Pelz, Lisa Lee, David Stovall, Bill Ayers, Nate Marshall, and Jeremy McCarter
#40 Gentrifier: Marc Lamont Hill, John Joe Schlichtman, Sharon Nelson-Payne
#39 In Search of French Lit: Alison James, Kit Schluter, and Adam Hocker
# 38 Black Musics: Melanie Zeck, Adam Gussow, and Chief Wicked
#37 Technology: Marie Hicks and Tom Mullaney
#36 Myths and Folktales: William Hansen and Wendy Doniger
OPEN STACKS | #35 Filmic Renditions of Life: Noa Steimatsky, Robert Pippin & Carl Skoggard
#34 Anima Sana: Resmaa Menakem, Andrea Petersen & Yael Shy
#33 Future Imperfect: Mike Duncan & Alfred McCoy
#32 Home for the Holidays: David Ferry, Mai Der Vang, Emily Yoon, Zhou Sivan, Eduardo Rabasa, Erika L. Sanchez, & José Ángel Navejas
#31 Modernisms: Jed Perl, Liesl Olson & Sho Sugita
#30 Reading, Rapturous Reading: Augustus Rose & Baird Harper
#29 Back in the USSR: Masha Gessen, Julia Alekseyeva, Franz Nicolay & William Nickell
#28 Unnatural Hungers: Andrew Fisher & Alice Weinreb
#27 Our Streets: L.A. Kauffman, Page May, Saadia Shah, Suzanne Sahloul & Steve Early
#26 Homegoings: Eve Ewing, Angela Jackson & Kevin Coval
#25 Books of the (Un)Dead: Scott G. Bruce, & Foy Scalf
#24 Modern Times: Adam Greenfield & Ilana Gershon
#23 God/Dog: Eileen Myles, Jennifer Scappettone & Peter O'Leary on the Sacred & Profane
#22 Indigenous Peoples' Day: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Ramesh Srinivasan, Andy Carter
#21 Autumn: Karl Ove Knausgaard & Camille Bordas
#20 UCHI 0101: Robert J. Richards, Michael Ruse, Catherine Zuckert & Katy Weintraub
#19 Hyde Park Legends & Lore: Norman Bolotin, David Garrow & Susan Eleuterio
#18 Aural Fixations: Joe Bonomo and John Corbett