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This week on Slate Plus, the critics speak to Dan Kois about the death of writer Katherine Dunn.
On this week’s Slate Culture Gabfest, the gabbers discuss the latest Whit Stillman movie, Love and Friendship, and how it stacks up against other Jane Austen adaptations. Next up, Slate’s music critic, Carl Wilson, joins the critics to talk about Radiohead’s new album and host a bonus musical guessing game. Finally, continuing the Anglophilic theme, the gabbers talk about British cop show Scott & Bailey and the wonders of comfort TV.
Links to some of the things we discussed this week follow:
- Kate Beckinsale’s appearance in the Underworld trilogy
- Vanity Fair
- Mansfield Park
- Dangerous Liaisons
- Jane Austen’s Emma, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Lady Susan
- Jane Eyre
- Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Anthony Trollope’s Doctor Thorne on Audible, read by Simon Vance
- Geek Love
- Dan’s piece in Slate, “Geek Love Author Katherine Dunn Dies at 70”
- Radiohead albums: A Moon Shaped Pool, The Bends, The King of Limbs
- Radiohead singles: “OK Computer,” “Kid A,” “Creep,” “Burn the Witch”
- Carl’s piece in Slate, “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Radiohead”
- Coldplay’s “Fix You”
- Scott & Bailey, the British counterpart to Cagney & Lacey
- Sally Wainwright’s Happy Valley
- Julia’s ultimate comfort TV go-to: Law & Order
- The Good Wife
- Bones
- True Detective, Season 2
- Game of Thrones
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Endorsements:
Laura: Le Roman de Renard (1937)
Julia: The goblin shark, as discovered (by her) in the great illustrated book series by David Peters, including Giants, A Gallery of Dinosaurs, Strange Creatures, and as seen in this hideous video
Steve: Alien (1979) and not the lesser Aliens (1986). Also, “The Whitsun Weddings,” by Philip Larkin.
Outro: “Goodbye England (Covered in Snow)” by Laura Marling
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