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  <title>Curiosity Is a Skill: On Reading Seriously</title>
  <description>This time on&amp;amp;nbsp;Open Stacks, with Philip Leventhal, Elizabeth Branch Dyson, Paul Yamazaki, and Dan Wells, we ask what makes a book &amp;quot;serious.&amp;quot; Booksellers Amélie, Annie, and Artemie share scholarly favorites. We're releasing this episode during University Press Week 2021, the 10th annual&amp;amp;nbsp;celebration&amp;amp;nbsp;of these important institutions and the knowledge and culture they help to cultivate.&amp;amp;nbsp; Philip Leventhal&amp;amp;nbsp;is Senior Editor at&amp;amp;nbsp;Columbia University Press, acquiring titles in journalism, film and media Studies, and literary studies. He also worked at the Co-op for many years, and was the managing editor of&amp;amp;nbsp;The Front Table, the Co-op's print catalog and newsletter. You can hear him on&amp;amp;nbsp;this episode&amp;amp;nbsp;from earlier in the season. Elizabeth Branch Dyson&amp;amp;nbsp;is&amp;amp;nbsp;Assistant Editorial Director and Executive Editor at&amp;amp;nbsp;The University of Chicago Press, acquiring titles in education, sociology, and music, especially jazz and blues studies. She's appeared a&amp;amp;nbsp;few&amp;amp;nbsp;times&amp;amp;nbsp;on this season of&amp;amp;nbsp;Open Stacks.&amp;amp;nbsp;  Paul Yamazaki&amp;amp;nbsp;is the principal buyer at&amp;amp;nbsp;City Lights, where he has worked for over 50 years. He has also appeared a&amp;amp;nbsp;few&amp;amp;nbsp;times&amp;amp;nbsp;on this season of&amp;amp;nbsp;Open Stacks,&amp;amp;nbsp;and will soon be publishing with&amp;amp;nbsp;Ode Books. Dan Wells is the founder of the publisher and bookstore&amp;amp;nbsp;Biblioasis. He also appeared on an&amp;amp;nbsp;earlier episode&amp;amp;nbsp;this season. Thanks to listener Marie for sharing a passage from My First Thirty Years&amp;amp;nbsp;by Gertrude Beasley. If you'd like to share a piece of great writing with us,&amp;amp;nbsp;send us a voice memo. This episode was hosted by Alena Jones and produced by Jackson Roach, and features music by Blue Dot Sessions, Los Amparito, Loyalty Freak Music, and Daniel Birch. Find a list of books discussed in this episode here. </description>
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