The Audio Book Club on John Cheever and Flannery O'Connor
Our critics discuss "The Swimmer" and "A Good Man Is Hard To Find."
Posted Thursday, June 18, 2009, at 11:10 AM
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This month, the Audio Book Club looks at "The Swimmer" by John Cheever and " A Good Man Is Hard To Find"by Flannery O'Connor, two classic American stories with Gothic inflections.
If you'd like to get an early start on the next book club selection, pick up a copy of Thy Neighbor's Wife by Gay Talese. Watch for—and listen to—our discussion of Thy Neighbor's Wife in July.
You can also listen to any of our previous club meetings through our iTunes feed or by clicking on the links below *:
Atmospheric Disturbances, by Rivka Galchen
Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace
Rabbit, Run, by John Updike
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Night of the Gun, by David Carr
American Wife, by Curtis Sittenfeld
Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
Netherland, by Joseph O'Neill
Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
Beautiful Children, by Charles Bock
All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren
Eat, Pray, Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert
Tree of Smoke, by Denis Johnson
The Audacity of Hope, by Barack Obama
The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton
Independence Day, by Richard Ford
The Emperor's Children, by Claire Messud
The Omnivore's Dilemma, by Michael Pollan
Beloved, by Toni Morrison
Everyman, by Philip Roth
Saturday, by Ian McEwan
The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion
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Meghan O'Rourke is Slate's culture critic and an advisory editor. She was previously an editor at The New Yorker. The Long Goodbye, a memoir about her mother's death, is now out in paperback.
Troy Patterson is Slate's television critic.
Katie Roiphe, professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University, is the author most recently of Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Marriages, and the forthcoming In Praise of Messy Lives.