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The Front Table: 9/26/19 Sep 27, 2019

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As students return to campus in pursuit of degrees, the Co-op's Colin and Alena come back to the Front Table in pursuit of knowledge in and beyond education, with a look at the higher costs and undervalues making college work... for some.

The Front Table: 9/12/19 Sep 12, 2019

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Feeling blue? You're not alone. Join the Seminary Co-op's Colin and Alena and for a spin around the Co-op's colorful Front Table with recent and reissued works that help mythologize, reflect, and interact with the secret lives of color on this week's Front Table podcast.

The Front Table: 8/27/19 Aug 27, 2019

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We may not be able to slow down our climate crisis, but we can take time to understand what's happening and why with the help of new books about environmental peril in relation to philosophical anthropology, institutional racism, and a categorical lack of imagination; something you'll never find on this week's Front Table podcast.

The Front Table: 8/13/19 Aug 13, 2019

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What's wrong with rudeness? The Seminary Co-op's Colin and Alena turn to ancient ideas about etiquette and more for our ill-mannered age on this week's Front Table. Tune in for "civilized" reading wherever you listen to podcasts.

The Front Table: 7/30/19 Jul 30, 2019

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Fresh off inventory, the Seminary Co-op's Colin and Alena investigate the "impulse to accumulate" as qualitatively quantified in yet more new books on this week's Front Table.

The Front Table: 7/16/19 Jul 16, 2019

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Since medieval times, if not before, writers like Francois Villon and St. Teresa of Avila have been showing us how writing about oneself is done. Or is it? The Co-op's Colin and Alena have a look at how far we've come on this week's Front Table, with a short stack of new memoirs long in the making.

The Front Table: 6/20/19 Jun 20, 2019

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Summer is here, which begs the question: What is a summer read, anyway? The Co-op's Alena and Colin find shade at the Front Table for a brief look and long view at what makes a quintessential (or potential) summer read.

"The one things happen to": Robert Launay & Noura Erakat Jun 09, 2019

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Taking a line from Jorge Luis Borges' Labyrinths, we set out to read and re-imagine the Other on this week's episode of Open Stacks (our last before summer break), with Professor of Anthropology Robert Launay, who joins us in the stacks to help us think of others through the eyes of Savages, Romans, and Despots, and Palestinian American legal scholar and human rights attorney Noura Erakat on Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine. Plus, our booksellers share serendipitous discoveries while wandering (i.e., shelving) in the stacks.

The Front Table: 6/5/19 Jun 05, 2019

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We know that the most important things in the world are beyond measure," writes Co-op Director Jeff Deutsch in his most recent annual letter to the Co-op community, "On Measure." But in our over-quantified age, the urge to justify with numbers is all around us, literally. This week, we measure up to the Co-op's Front Table for a look at new releases to help put us on the map.

Are We There Yet? Amit Chaudhuri & Evelyn Hampton May 26, 2019

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How do you get to the end when there's no where to get? Authors Evelyn Hampton and Amit Chaudhuri read and discuss fictions of anxiety, memory, autobiography, and impersonation, taking us there one sentence at a time. Booksellers Freddie and Joe chime in on Co-op staff favorites W.G. Sebald, Annie Dilliard, and more.

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