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Slate's Audio Book ClubOur critics discuss Saturday.

By Andy Bowers
Posted Wednesday, May 10, 2006, at 4:09 PM ET

Click here to play or download Slate's Audio Book Club (MP3 format)* or click here to subscribe to Slate's free daily podcast on iTunes.

Our May meeting of the audio book club has arrived. Critics Stephen Metcalf, Meghan O'Rourke, and Katie Roiphe recently sat down over coffee to discuss the novel Saturday, by Ian McEwan, and we recorded their session so you can listen in. The audio is already posted on Slate's daily podcast feed, or you can download or play it separately by clicking here*. (You can also read the first chapter here.)

Warning: Think carefully before listening to the McEwan book club in a public place. Several listeners of the previous club on Joan Didion reported an uncontrollable urge to jump into the conversation and talk back to the podcast. This could prove embarrassing in a supermarket or gym.

For those who'd like to get a head start on next month's selection, it's another novel: Everyman, the latest from Philip Roth. (Stephen Metcalf offers a preview of his thoughts here.) We'll release the audio of that meeting in mid-June.

We welcome your comments on the audio book club or any of our podcasts. E-mail us at .

*If clicking on the link doesn't work on your system, try right-clicking (Windows) or holding down the Control key while you click (Mac), and then "save" or "download" the audio file to your hard drive.

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