Critics Christina Cauterucci, Mark Harris, and Katy Waldman discuss Lucia Berlin's dazzling short story collection. Slate's Audio Book Club is brought to you by Audible.com, with more than 180,000 audiobooks and spoken-word audio products. Get a free 30-day trial and a free audiobook at AudiblePodcast.com/abc. Next month, Slate's Audio Book Club chats about Better Living Through Criticism by A.O. Scott. Read the book and join us for our conversation in March! Learn more about your ad choices. Vi...
Feb 04, 2016•44 min
Slate critic, Katy Waldman, is joined by Parul Sehgal of the New York Times Book Review and culture critic, Meghan O'Rourke, to discuss Jonathan Franzen's Dickensian novel – Purity. Next month, Slate's Audio Book Club will discuss A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin. Read the book and join us for a conversation in February! Slate's Audio Book Club is brought to you by Audible.com, with more than 180,000 audiobooks and spoken-word audio products. Get a free 30-day trial and a free audiobo...
Jan 14, 2016•46 min
Slate critics Emily Bazelon, Laura Miller, and Katy Waldman discuss Lauren Groff's ambitious new novel, “Fates and Furies.” Next month, Slate's Audio Book Club discusses “Purity,” by Jonathan Franzen. Read the book and join us for our conversation in January! Slate's Audio Book Club is brought to you by The Great Courses Plus, a new video learning service with more than 5,000 lectures. As a member of The Great Courses Plus, you can watch as many lectures as you want, anytime, anywhere, on any de...
Dec 08, 2015•48 min
Slate critics Laura Bennett, Andrew Kahn, Dan Kois, and Katy Waldman discuss Hanya Yanagihara's misery-soaked epic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 06, 2015•56 min
Slate critics Dan Kois, Laura Miller, and Katy Waldman discuss Andy Weir's tense space procedural. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 08, 2015•47 min
Slate critics Jamelle Bouie, Meghan O'Rourke, and Katy Waldman discuss Ta-Nehisi Coates' searing book about being black in America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 18, 2015•50 min
Slate critics Dan Kois, Meghan O'Rourke, and Katy Waldman discuss Harper Lee's newly published sequel to "To Kill a Mockingbird." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 07, 2015•41 min
Slate critics Jamelle Bouie, Hanna Rosin, and Katy Waldman discuss Emily St. John Mandel's award-winning novel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 10, 2015•49 min
Slate critics Emily Bazelon, Hanna Rosin, and Katy Waldman discuss Anthony Doerr's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 05, 2015•48 min
Slate critics Katy Waldman, Julia Turner, and Meghan O'Rourke discuss Helen MacDonald's shapeshifting memoir. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 08, 2015•45 min
Slate critics Emily Bazelon, Hanna Rosin, and Katy Waldman discuss Ali Smith's novel about a prickly, grief-torn teenager and her Renaissance painter counterpart. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 10, 2015•54 min
Slate critics Dan Kois, Katy Waldman, and Laura Bennett discuss Paula Hawkins' bestselling thriller. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 06, 2015•39 min
David Carr, former New York Times critic and media columnist, died on Thursday. He was 58. In honor of Carr, we are re-posting our Audio Book Club about his 2008 memoir, The Night of the Gun. The story of Carr's descent into alcoholism and drug dependency is, on the one hand, a typical addiction-and-recovery memoir. But Carr tries to add a new twist to the old genre by relying on his reporting skills, rather than just his memory, to reconstruct a more accurate personal history. Carr interviews h...
Feb 13, 2015•49 min
With the release of the Fifty Shades of Grey movie in theaters this week, wandering minds are drifting back towards the world of E.L. James’ blockbuster erotic novel. In this episode of the Audio Book Club, previously published around the height of Fifty Shades mania, Slate culture editor Dan Kois, Slate culture critic Meghan O’Rourke, and Slate DoubleX founder Hanna Rosin debate the merits of the book. O’Rourke describes it as maybe the worst book she’s read in her life, but still has quite a b...
Feb 13, 2015•44 min
Slate critics Dan Kois, Meghan O'Rourke, and Hanna Rosin discuss Phil Klay's National Book Award-winning debut collection of stories about the Iraq war. Complete Slate's podcast listener survey! Tell us about yourself and your favorite podcasts so Slate can serve you better. We'd appreciate two minutes of your time. Go to http://slate.com/survey … Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 06, 2015•37 min
Slate critics Katy Waldman, David Haglund, and Parul Sehgal discuss the first in Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan trilogy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 09, 2015•46 min
Slate critics Dan Kois, Hanna Rosin, and Emily Bazelon discuss Karen Joy Fowler's novel about an all-too-human family. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 05, 2014•38 min
Slate critics Dan Kois, Choire Sicha, and Miriam Krule discuss Lev Grossman's fantasy trilogy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 07, 2014•39 min
Slate critics Dan Kois, Parul Sehgal, and Katy Waldman discuss Cheryl Strayed's memoir. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 10, 2014•44 min
Slate's Audio Book Club take on Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay's book of essays on gender, race and her messy life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 12, 2014•43 min
Slate critics Dan Kois, Emily Bazelon, and Hanna Rosin discuss Roz Chast's cartoon memoir about her parents' decline. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 07, 2014•50 min
Slate's Dan Kois and David Haglund talk with New York Times Book Review editor Parul Sehgal about Book 1 of Karl Ove Knausgaard's 6-volume autobiographical epic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 11, 2014•57 min
Slate critics Dan Kois, Jamelle Bouie, and Emily Bazelon discuss Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's novel about Nigerians immigrating abroad and returning home. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 06, 2014•50 min
Slate critics Dan Kois, Meghan O'Rourke, and Jessica Winter discuss Jenny Offill's novel about the struggle to make art part of a full life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 09, 2014•42 min
Slate critics Dan Kois, Emily Bazelon, and Meghan O'Rourke discuss Maria Semple's bestselling comic novel set in Seattle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 11, 2014•39 min
Recorded live at Town Hall Seattle, Dan Kois, Hanna Rosin, and special guest Hugh Howey discuss Kurt Vonnegut's countercultural classic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 07, 2014•1 hr 12 min
Slate critics David Haglund, Emily Bazelon and Meghan O'Rourke discuss Mary McCarthy's classic 1953 novel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 06, 2014•53 min
Slate critics Dan Kois, Emily Bazelon, and David Haglund discuss James McBride’s National Book Award winning novel about slavery and John Brown. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 10, 2014•48 min
Slate critics Dan Kois, Hanna Rosin, and Meghan O’Rourke discuss Donna Tartt’s big literary adventure novel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 05, 2013•48 min
Slate critics Dan Kois, Hanna Rosin, and Forrest Wickman discuss Thomas Pynchon's mystery set in the New York tech world around 9/11. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 08, 2013•43 min
