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Open Stacks — 100 episodes

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Havens for the Heterodox: Seminary Co-op Director Jeff Deutsch on Good Bookstores

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Meeting Again: Mikki Kendall, Jack Cella, & Colin McDonald

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Curiosity Is a Skill: On Reading Seriously

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A Cave with Windows: Bookstore as Building

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At All Costs: Dave Eggers, Dan Wells, Ann Kjellberg, & Paul Yamazaki

6

What's There and What's Not: A Visit to the Front Table

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Escape Tunnel: Philip Leventhal on The Front Table

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Place to Place: Katarzyna Bartoszyńska & Reuben Jonathan Miller

9

A Land Without Trees: A Visit to the Front Table

10

Washing a Book: Elizabeth Branch Dyson, Eve Ewing, and Ann Kjellberg

11

Common Languages: A Visit to the Front Table

12

A Spirit in the Space: On Reopening Our Doors

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Observer Observed: A Visit to the Front Table

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Not New in a New Way: Elizabeth Branch Dyson & Haki Madhubuti

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Open Stacks Returns

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Narrative Threads: Jordan Alexander Stein & Jasmon Drain

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Books on Books: Craig Fehrman, Anna Kornbluh & Booksellers Off the Clock

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Visual Memories: Berthold Hoeckner, Leila Taylor & Adam Sonderberg

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The Front Table: 2/13/20

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Picture Book

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The Front Table: 1/29/20

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Children Aren't Boats: Kim Brooks, Julissa Arce & Franny Billingsley

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The Front Table: 12/3/19

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Out of Season: Kathryn Scanlan & Devin Johnston

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The Front Table: 11/19/19

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How to Explode Slowly: Etgar Keret, Jessica Laser & Daniel Poppick

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The Front Table: 11/5/19

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World Makers: Ocean Vuong & Rebecca Clarren

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The Front Table: 10/21/19

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Placemaking: Timothy Cresswell & Dani Shapiro

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The Front Table: 9/26/19

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The Front Table: 9/12/19

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The Front Table: 8/27/19

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The Front Table: 8/13/19

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The Front Table: 7/30/19

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The Front Table: 7/16/19

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The Front Table: 6/20/19

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"The one things happen to": Robert Launay & Noura Erakat

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The Front Table: 6/5/19

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Are We There Yet? Amit Chaudhuri & Evelyn Hampton

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The Front Table: 5/21/19

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Exoteric Advice: Edith Hall & Helen Rosner

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The Front Table: 5/7/19

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"Throw Out the Radio": Florence Dore, Luke Fischer + Making Sense of "Blurbs"

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The Front Table: 4/23/19

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Women Warriors: Pamela Toler & Carol J. Adams

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The Front Table: 3/26/19

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Autobiography of Song: Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib & Timuel Black

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The Front Table: 3/12/19

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"The opposite of an out-of-body experience": In the Stacks with Eileen Myles + The "Gentle Madness" of Collecting Books

51

Time-Literate: Marcia Bjornerud on Timefulness and James Joyce's Ulysses

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From a Distance: Rachel Galvin's NEWS OF WAR & Up Close with UNWATCHABLE

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Illegibility Writ Large: Dark Ages and Pages with Charles Bernstein and James Bridle

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Books Worth Giving, Lives Worth Living: Imani Perry, Norman C. Ellstrand, Co-op Booksellers' Top 5 of 2018

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Something Like Freedom: David Ferry, David Shulman & Michelle Obama's "Becoming"

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Peaceable Kingdoms of Books: Liam Heneghan, Bill Ayers & The Diary of a Bookseller

57

To Live and Read in an Age of Fear: Jack Zipes, Scott G. Bruce, & Conor Bean

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BONUS: A Conversation with Kristen Ciccarelli and Franny Billingsley

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A short tale from hell as told by Scott G. Bruce

60

Two Roads Diverged: Sheila Heti's MOTHERHOOD, Leonard Mlodinow on ELASTIC, and In the Stacks with Martin Patrick

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An Episodic Life: Andrew Sean Greer, Malynne Sternstein, and Seminary Co-op on Campus Novels

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A Not Uncritical Open Heartedness: Peter Coviello, Stephen T Asma, & the Seminary Co-op on Middlemarch

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#55 Biblio-files - Co-op Legends: Hanna Holborn Gray

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#54 101 - A Celebration of Gwendolyn Brooks

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#53: Shifting the City - Ben Austen, LaDale C. Winling, & Gordon Douglas

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#52 In Search of French Lit Part Deux: Jordan Stump, Jonathan Larson, & Katie Kadue

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#51 Prison Nation: James Forman, Jr. & Sarah Shourd

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#50 Biblio-files: Co-op Legends - Marshall Sahlins

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#49 Children's Book Week: Javaka Steptoe & Elizabeth Acevedo

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All Things Poetry: Place - Andy Fitch, Miquel Àngel Llauger, Joshua Beckman, & Patrick Morrissey

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#47 All Things Poetry - Thing: Cecilia Vicuña and Jen Bervin

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#46 All Things Poetry - Person: Anthony Madrid & Duriel E. Harris

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#45 All Things Poetry - Idea: Daniel Borzutzky, Nate Marshall, & Robert Darnton

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#44 Translations: Haun Saussy & Yoon Sun Yang

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#43 Institutions: Toussaint Losier, Michael C. Dawson, Crystal Laura, & Bill Ayers

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#42 Art & Time: Pamela Bannos, Laura Letinsky, & John Muse

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#41 History from Below: William Pelz, Lisa Lee, David Stovall, Bill Ayers, Nate Marshall, and Jeremy McCarter

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#40 Gentrifier: Marc Lamont Hill, John Joe Schlichtman, Sharon Nelson-Payne

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#39 In Search of French Lit: Alison James, Kit Schluter, and Adam Hocker

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# 38 Black Musics: Melanie Zeck, Adam Gussow, and Chief Wicked

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#37 Technology: Marie Hicks and Tom Mullaney

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#36 Myths and Folktales: William Hansen and Wendy Doniger

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OPEN STACKS | #35 Filmic Renditions of Life: Noa Steimatsky, Robert Pippin & Carl Skoggard

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#34 Anima Sana: Resmaa Menakem, Andrea Petersen & Yael Shy

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#33 Future Imperfect: Mike Duncan & Alfred McCoy

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#32 Home for the Holidays: David Ferry, Mai Der Vang, Emily Yoon, Zhou Sivan, Eduardo Rabasa, Erika L. Sanchez, & José Ángel Navejas

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#31 Modernisms: Jed Perl, Liesl Olson & Sho Sugita

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#30 Reading, Rapturous Reading: Augustus Rose & Baird Harper

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#29 Back in the USSR: Masha Gessen, Julia Alekseyeva, Franz Nicolay & William Nickell

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#28 Unnatural Hungers: Andrew Fisher & Alice Weinreb

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#27 Our Streets: L.A. Kauffman, Page May, Saadia Shah, Suzanne Sahloul & Steve Early

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#26 Homegoings: Eve Ewing, Angela Jackson & Kevin Coval

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#25 Books of the (Un)Dead: Scott G. Bruce, & Foy Scalf

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#24 Modern Times: Adam Greenfield & Ilana Gershon

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#23 God/Dog: Eileen Myles, Jennifer Scappettone & Peter O'Leary on the Sacred & Profane

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#22 Indigenous Peoples' Day: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Ramesh Srinivasan, Andy Carter

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#21 Autumn: Karl Ove Knausgaard & Camille Bordas

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#20 UCHI 0101: Robert J. Richards, Michael Ruse, Catherine Zuckert & Katy Weintraub

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#19 Hyde Park Legends & Lore: Norman Bolotin, David Garrow & Susan Eleuterio

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#18 Aural Fixations: Joe Bonomo and John Corbett