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The Audio Book Club on Gay TaleseOur critics discuss Thy Neighbor's Wife.

By Meghan O'Rourke, Troy Patterson, and Katie RoiphePosted Thursday, July 16, 2009, at 7:58 AM ET

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This month, the Audio Book Club looks at Gay Talese's Thy Neighbor's Wife—a panoramic cultural history of sex in America that concentrates mostly on the sexual revolution of the 1960s and '70s. In April, Harper released an updated edition of the book, first published in 1981. Our critics agree that it's a remarkable book: a notable example of the New Journalism movement of the 1960s that, 30 years later, "speaks to the Sodom and Gomorrah that we live in now."

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Slate's Audio Book Club now comes to you on the third Thursday of every month. Our selection for August is the controversial new book A Vindication of Love by Cristina Nehring. Listen for our discussion of A Vindication of Love, coming to the podcast on Aug. 20.

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"The Swimmer," by John Cheever, and "A Good Man Is Hard To Find," by Flannery O'Connor
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 the author of Halflife, a collection of poetry. Troy Patterson is Slate's television critic. Katie Roiphe is the author of Still She Haunts Me.

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