Open Stacks

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

30 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

On this special episode of Open Stacks, we hear from Jeff Deutsch, the Director of the Seminary Co-op Bookstores. Jeff's book, In Praise of Good Book...

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

02 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode of Open Stacks, the last of the fourth season, Mikki Kendall remembers a childhood at 57th Street Books and the reading that shapes h...

Curiosity Is a Skill: On Reading Seriously

11 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This time on Open Stacks, with Philip Leventhal, Elizabeth Branch Dyson, Paul Yamazaki, and Dan Wells, we ask what makes a book "serious." Bookseller...

A Cave with Windows: Bookstore as Building

28 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This time on Open Stacks: We explore the rabbit warren of the Co-op’s original location in the old Chicago Theological Seminary with manager emeritu...

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

15 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode, authors, publishers, editors and booksellers reflect on the value of their work, and what it takes to make a great bookstore thrive. ...

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

23 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode of open stacks: a ghostly tour of the Co-op's Front Table, from the hauntings of american history to life (and death) advice from Spin...

Escape Tunnel: Philip Leventhal on The Front Table

09 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This time on Open Stacks we hear from Philip Leventhal, editor at Columbia University Press and veteran Co-opian, about the history of the famous Fron...

Place to Place: Katarzyna Bartoszyńska & Reuben Jonathan Miller

26 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode of Open Stacks with Katarzyna Bartoszyńska and Reuben Jonathan Miller, we trace paths between: academia and bookselling; Poland and I...

A Land Without Trees: A Visit to the Front Table

05 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode of Open Stacks, books from the land of the ice and snow, from the midnight sun, where the hot springs flow. In the middle of the Su...

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

22 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode of Open Stacks: a prismatic exploration of new releases at the Front Table, an editorial dialogue with Elizabeth Branch Dyson and Eve ...

Common Languages: A Visit to the Front Table

08 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode of Open Stacks, a circle around the Co-op’s Front Table: from a post-war pioneer of Afrofuturism on Chicago’s South Side to the ...

A Spirit in the Space: On Reopening Our Doors

25 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode of Open Stacks, we celebrate the Co-op reopening its doors for in-person browsing – the first time since we closed 15 months ago. B...

Observer Observed: A Visit to the Front Table

09 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Alena takes a tour around the Front Table, guided by Bryce Lucas, manager of 57th Street Books. Circling the table, they move from ba...

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

26 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this first episode of the fourth season, we sit down with Elizabeth Branch Dyson, assistant editorial director and executive editor at the Unive...

Open Stacks Returns

14 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A new season of Open Stacks, coming soon from the Seminary Co-op Bookstores in Chicago, the first not-for-profit bookstores whose mission is bookselli...

Narrative Threads: Jordan Alexander Stein & Jasmon Drain

15 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Think you know how fiction works? Think again on this episode of Open Stacks with literary theorist Jordan Alexander Stein, who joins us in the stack...

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

02 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

From our nation’s highest office to the uncharted territories of political formalism, we trust in books to take us in and out of the bookstore on t...

Visual Memories: Berthold Hoeckner, Leila Taylor & Adam Sonderberg

17 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode of Open Stacks, Professor of Music Berthold Hoeckner spins a record of cultural memory made audible in films focused on the past, from...

The Front Table: 2/13/20

13 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In his final hours as Manager of the Seminary Co-op, Adam Sonderberg sat down to let his favorite books speak (mostly) for themselves. Join us as we r...

Picture Book

03 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ahead of the Oscars, Open Stacks returns with a long red carpet full of books on Hollywood, Hitchcock, Hegel and more with scholars Sharon Marcus on T...

The Front Table: 1/29/20

29 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

New year. New books. New you? The Seminary Co-op’s Colin and Alena search for Self-Help in the guise (and stacks) of literature, capitalist spiritua...

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

09 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The pleasures of reading are often introduced at a young age, and on this episode of Open Stacks, we revisit young adulthood and the child in the 21st...

The Front Table: 12/3/19

03 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Not all cities are created equal, and on this week’s Front Table we go behind the scenes and un-seens of cities near and far, from the depths of Lon...

Out of Season: Kathryn Scanlan & Devin Johnston

25 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

At 82, May Sarton “made a dialogue out of what had been a soliloquy,” in her journal. On this entry of Open Stacks, we take the measure of our day...

The Front Table: 11/19/19

19 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A planet, a republic, a meal, and a question: what is the future of food? Specifically that which comes from animals. This week’s Front Table is ser...

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

14 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

From the depths of Moby Dick to the light of something like poetry in author Etgar Keret’s new collection, Fly Already, we follow a line (or is it a...

The Front Table: 11/5/19

05 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

It’s a long and winding road on this week’s Front Table from idea to book, career, and other forms of written livelihood. This episode of the Fron...

World Makers: Ocean Vuong & Rebecca Clarren

27 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Award winning poet Ocean Vuong and journalist Rebecca Clarren turn a romantic and empiric lens on the art of fiction in their acclaimed debut novels,...

The Front Table: 10/21/19

22 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Space is the place on this week’s Front Table with the Seminary Co-op's Colin and Alena looking up and down at a veritable galaxy of new books about...

Placemaking: Timothy Cresswell & Dani Shapiro

06 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A place like the Seminary Co-op is in some sense made of writing, but what can writing make? That question is at the center of conversations with Timo...

The Front Table: 9/26/19

27 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 e...

The Front Table: 9/12/19

12 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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...

The Front Table: 8/27/19

27 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 env...

The Front Table: 8/13/19

13 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 w...

The Front Table: 7/30/19

30 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Fresh off inventory, the Seminary Co-op’s Colin and Alena investigate the “impulse to accumulate” as qualitatively quantified in yet more new bo...

The Front Table: 7/16/19

16 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 i...

The Front Table: 6/20/19

20 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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...

“The one things happen to”: Robert Launay & Noura Erakat

09 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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...

The Front Table: 6/5/19

05 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Are We There Yet? Amit Chaudhuri & Evelyn Hampton

26 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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, auto...

The Front Table: 5/21/19

21 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

At times of uncertainty, books of anxiety abound, but the question of how to write the unknown is always in flux. Enter a state of incomprehension on ...

Exoteric Advice: Edith Hall & Helen Rosner

12 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

What might 4th century BC philosopher Aristotle and 20th century celebrity chef Julia Child have to say to each other and to us? We’re in dialogue w...

The Front Table: 5/7/19

07 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Spring is in the air and selections from the Co-op’s Moms, Dads, Grads & Kids 2019 Gift Guide (https://www.semcoop.com/category/moms-dads-grads) are...

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

28 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Rock musician and professor Florence Dore attunes to static in her research on "resonant silences" surrounding censorship and race in modernist litera...

The Front Table: 4/23/19

23 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Thanks for reading and listening with us on this week’s Front Table from the Seminary Co-op Bookstores in Chicago. Browse each week’s Front Table ...

Women Warriors: Pamela Toler & Carol J. Adams

14 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Open Stacks returns with historian Pamela Toler on women for whom battle was not a metaphor, while positing the use of story in shaping shared history...

The Front Table: 3/26/19

26 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Forgotten, no good, or simply on sale? Seminary Co-op Assistant Manager Alena Jones looks past the Front Table for books of great value: what remains ...

Autobiography of Song: Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib & Timuel Black

17 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

From autobiography to music criticism, poet, essayist, and cultural critic Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib walks the floor of the Seminary Co-op in conversati...

The Front Table: 3/12/19

12 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Seminary Co-op Assistant manager Alena Jones picks up the radical feminism of Andrea Dworkin and three new translations by women of classic...

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

04 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Poet Eileen Myles joins us in the stacks to discuss writing EVOLUTION: their new collection of essays and poems, reading in good company, and "trying ...

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

18 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

To deny our place in time is to imperil our perspective, says Marcia Bjornerud, professor of geology and author of TIMEFULNESS. This time on Open Stac...

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

04 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Unwatchable, unreadable, or merely hard to find. It all adds up on this episode of Open Stacks as excesses of art and life are on (and off) display. U...

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

20 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

To accept that truth and expression can be easily conveyed is to become a ploy of dark forces, says poet, essayist, and scholar Charles Bernstein, w...

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

24 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

It’s that most wonderful time of the year and our booksellers and books are here to help, surprise, challenge, and delight every reader on your list...

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

10 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A bookstore is more than a retail space, and on this episode of Open Stacks we welcome back old friends and longtime members of the Co-op for a celebr...

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

26 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Our journey into other worlds continues on this episode of Open Stacks in preparation for the after and before-lives of great books, with lions, bears...

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

12 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This episode, an interview with fairy tale scholar Jack Zipes, Penguin Book of Hell editor Scott G. Bruce shares hell tales and lessons, and former Co...

BONUS: A Conversation with Kristen Ciccarelli and Franny Billingsley

08 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Just before the fantastic Epic Reads Meet-Up this past September at 57th Street Books, we sat down with celebrated YA author Kristen Ciccarelli and ou...

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

31 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A trick-or-treat special: Penguin Book of Hell editor Scott Bruce tells a hell tale. Hear more from him, along with Jack Zipes and Conor Bean in our n...

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

28 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Elastic thinking, says theoretical physicist Leonard Mlodinow, isn’t about following but inventing rules, trading analytic for elastic thought, in...

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

14 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Tricky narrators and learning spaces: Pulitzer Prize winning author Andrew Sean Greer takes listeners through a break up with an excerpt from Less, Un...

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

30 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Open Stacks returns from summer break with fresh ears and shelf-browsings: Peter Coviello takes a walk through the stacks, Stephen T Asma speaks on Wh...

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

10 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week on Open Stacks, the second episode of our occasional Biblio-files series, featuring Co-op friends and legends, with professor emerita and f...

#54 101 - A Celebration of Gwendolyn Brooks

03 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week on Open Stacks, we're celebrating Chicago's own legendary Gwendolyn Brooks on her 101st birthday.  Reginald Gibbons, Angela Jackson, Qura...

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

27 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the program, cities shifting and shifted, and the people, institutions, and social structures that make it so. Ben Austen recounts the di...

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

20 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week on Open Stacks, French lit part deux. Join us for tete-à-tetes with translators Jonathan Larson on Francis Ponge's Nioques of the Early-Sp...

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

14 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week, a further look at the mechanisms of incarceration. 2018 Pulitzer Prize winning professor, legal scholar, and author James Forman, Jr. discu...

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

07 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week on Open Stacks, the inaugural episode of our occasional Biblio-files series, featuring Co-op friends and legends, beginning with prolific ...

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

29 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week on Open Stacks, lit for the little ones: it's Children's Book Week! Writers Javaka Steptoe and Elizabeth Acevedo join us, Colin interviews F...

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

22 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast, we traverse the poetics of place and shared space with Andy Fitch, Miquel Àngel Llauger, Joshua Beckman, & Patrick Morrisse...

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

15 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week on Open Stacks, a look at poemthings that point to the truths beyond the given names of the things contained within them, with Cecilia Vic...

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

08 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week on Open Stacks, poetry and personhood. We hear a reading and conversation with Anthony Madrid and an interview with Duriel E. Harris.

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

01 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

On this week's episode, National Book Award Winner Daniel Borzutsky, discusses his new book, Lake Michigan, with Chicago poet Nate Marshall. They als...

#44 Translations: Haun Saussy & Yoon Sun Yang

25 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the show, we're taking a multifocal look at translation processes. Come along as we consider its tectonic, idiosyncratic, and uncharted t...

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

18 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week on Open Stacks, discussions about two of the most fervently debated and scrutinized institutions: prisons and public schools. First, Touissa...

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

11 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week on Open Stacks, the many relationships of art to time, as elucidated in photography, theater, and the lives of artists. Pamela Bannos discus...

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

04 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week's episode of Open Stacks features William Pelz discussing history from below; Lisa Lee, David Stovall, and Bill Ayers in conversation from t...

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

25 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week Marc Lamont Hill and John Joe Schlichtman discuss their book Gentrifier, and local activist Sharon Nelson-Payne, a co-founder of STOP (South...

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

18 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week's episode explores the world of French-language literature. Alison James talks about literary movements, such as Oulipo. Kit Schluter discus...

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

11 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week's episode explores the history and present of Black Musics. Melanie Zeck discusses the influence of Black Musics and how they traveled aroun...

#37 Technology: Marie Hicks and Tom Mullaney

04 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week's episode examines prejudice in technological development. Marie Hicks discusses her book "Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Wome...

#36 Myths and Folktales: William Hansen and Wendy Doniger

28 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week myths and folktales take the stage in their basic and abstract forms. William Hansen recounts ancient Greek and Roman folktales from his col...

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

20 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week on Open Stacks, signs of life in film and filmic renditions of life. Noa Steimatsky, Robert Pippin, and Carl Skoggard share in the cinematic...

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

14 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week we explore the embodied aspect of mental illness. Resmaa Menakem discusses racial trauma and his book "My Grandmother's Hands." Andrea Peter...

#33 Future Imperfect: Mike Duncan & Alfred McCoy

07 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Can history predict the future? Where do we fall in history's great cycles? History professor Alfred McCoy, author of "In the Shadow of the American C...

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

18 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Poet David Ferry reads from his translation of Vergil's Aeneid. Poets Mai Der Vang, Emily Yoon, and Zhou Sivan share stories of conflict and displacem...

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

10 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Art critic Jed Perl talks Alexander Calder and his new book "Calder: The Conquest of Time." Historian and critic Liesl Olson shares revelations from "...

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

03 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Augustus Rose reads from his acclaimed debut, "The Readymade Thief" and Baird Harper reads his linked short story collection, "Red Light Run." Plus, b...

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

26 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we hear from Masha Gessen on 'The Future is History' and Putin's Russia, Julia Alekseyeva on 'Soviet Daughter,' and Franz Nicolay on 'The H...

#28 Unnatural Hungers: Andrew Fisher & Alice Weinreb

19 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we explore the political side of hunger. Anti-hunger activist Andrew Fisher tells the story of his book "Big Hunger." Then, "Modern Hungers...

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

12 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week we explore the power of community activism in Chicago and beyond. Featuring labor organizer Steve Early, activist and historian L.A. Kauffma...

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

05 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we hear from the current generation of classic Chicago literature. Eve Ewing reads from "Electric Arches," Angela Jackson reads from "Roads...

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

29 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

"Penguin Book of the Undead" editor and medieval history expert Scott G. Bruce shares stories of zombies and restless souls. Egyptologist and curator ...

#24 Modern Times: Adam Greenfield & Ilana Gershon

22 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on Open Stacks, we face the future of work, data and technology. First, Ilana Gershon takes on the future of work in the information age, a...

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

15 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we explore literature that traverses the sacred and profane, with Eileen Myles on "Afterglow (a dog memoir)," Jennifer Scappettone on "The ...

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

08 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on Open Stacks, we celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day, with activist and historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, discussing "All the Real Indians Die...

#21 Autumn: Karl Ove Knausgaard & Camille Bordas

01 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on Open Stacks, we bring you a celebration of new fall literature, featuring rising star Camille Bordas, author of "How to Behave in a Crowd...

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

24 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on Open Stacks, we celebrate the new school year at our neighbor, the University of Chicago. We'll hear from Professors Catherine Zuckert an...

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

17 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Norman Bolotin discusses his book "Chicago's Grand Midway," detailing the park's role in the World's Fair of 1893. David Garrow discusses Obama's earl...

#18 Aural Fixations: Joe Bonomo and John Corbett

10 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on Open Stacks, music writer Joe Bonomo reads from his essay collection "Field Recordings from the Inside," which traces Bonomo's relationsh...