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Slate Magazine Slate Podmaster podmaster@slate.com http://img.slate.com/media/1/123125/2121330/2127745/2142930/audiobookclub.png http://www.slate.com/id/2137229/ slate news politics arts culture science 33:55 http://www.slate.com/id/2189319/ http://www.slate.com/id/2189319/ Slate's Audio Book Club. Stephen Metcalf, Troy Patterson, and Katie Roiphe discuss the novel Beautiful Children, by Charles Bock. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program. Audio Book Club http://fray.slate.com/id/3936/fr/podcast Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:25:23 EST slate news politics arts culture science 51:35 http://www.slate.com/id/2186432/ http://www.slate.com/id/2186432/ Slate's Audio Book Club. Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and Jacob Weisberg discuss the novel All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program. Audio Book Club http://fray.slate.com/id/3936/fr/podcast Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:47:14 EST slate news politics arts culture science 57:07 http://www.slate.com/id/2183905/ http://www.slate.com/id/2183905/ Slate's Audio Book Club. Stephen Metcalf, Katie Roiphe, and Julia Turner discuss Eat Pray Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program. Audio Book Club http://fray.slate.com/id/3936/fr/podcast Wed, 6 Feb 2008 22:06:59 EST slate news politics arts culture science 48:34 http://www.slate.com/id/2181190/ http://www.slate.com/id/2181190/ Slate's Audio Book Club. Meghan O'Rourke, Katie Roiphe, and James Surowiecki discuss the novel Tree of Smoke, by Denis Johnson. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program. Audio Book Club http://fray.slate.com/id/3936/fr/podcast Wed, 2 Jan 2008 20:50:50 EST slate news politics arts culture science 66:14 http://www.slate.com/id/2128256/ http://www.slate.com/id/2128256/ Slate's Audio Book Club. Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and John Dickerson discuss The Audacity of Hope, by Barack Obama. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program. The Audio Book Club http://fray.slate.com/id/3936/fr/podcast Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:35:07 EST slate news politics arts culture science 37:36 http://www.slate.com/id/2166885/ http://www.slate.com/id/2166885/ Slate's Audio Book Club. Meghan O'Rourke, Katie Roiphe, and John Burnham Schwartz discuss the novel The Road, by Cormac McCarthy. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program. The Audio Book Club http://fray.slate.com/id/3936/fr/podcast Wed, 30 May 2007 22:31:47 EST slate news politics arts culture science 48:20 http://www.slate.com/id/2164055/ http://www.slate.com/id/2164055/ Slate's Audio Book Club. Stephen Metcalf, Meghan O'Rourke, and Katie Roiphe discuss the novel The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, along with a new biography of Wharton by Hermione Lee. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read The House of Mirth before listening to this audio program. The Audio Book Club http://fray.slate.com/id/3936/fr/podcast Thu, 10 May 2007 00:37:00 EST slate news politics arts culture science 58:15 http://www.slate.com/id/2160017/ http://www.slate.com/id/2160017/ Slate's Audio Book Club. Stephen Metcalf, Katie Roiphe, and John Burnham Schwartz discuss the novel Independence Day by Richard Ford. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program. The Audio Book Club http://fray.slate.com/id/3936/fr/podcast Thu, 29 Mar 2007 01:37:21 EST slate news politics arts culture science 65:14 http://www.slate.com/id/2156215/ http://www.slate.com/id/2156215/ Slate's Audio Book Club. Critics Stephen Metcalf, Meghan O'Rourke, and Katie Roiphe discuss the novel The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program. Podcasts http://fray.slate.com/id/3936/fr/podcast Wed, 27 Dec 2006 00:50:55 EST slate news politics arts culture science 68:24 http://www.slate.com/id/2151887/ http://www.slate.com/id/2151887/ Slate's Audio Book Club. Critics Stephen Metcalf, Meghan O'Rourke, and Katie Roiphe discuss the nonfiction book The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by journalist Michael Pollan. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program. Podcasts http://fray.slate.com/id/3936/fr/podcast Wed, 1 Nov 2006 00:02:14 EST slate news politics arts culture science 54:45 http://www.slate.com/id/2143695/ http://www.slate.com/id/2143695/ Slate's Audio Book Club. Critics Stephen Metcalf, Meghan O'Rourke, and Katie Roiphe discuss the novel Beloved by Toni Morrison. Podcasts http://fray.slate.com/id/3936/fr/podcast Wed, 19 Jul 2006 01:16:53 EST slate news politics arts culture science 59:00 http://www.slate.com/id/2143319/ http://www.slate.com/id/2143319/ Slate's Audio Book Club. Critics Stephen Metcalf, Meghan O'Rourke, and Katie Roiphe discuss the novel Everyman by Philip Roth. Podcasts http://fray.slate.com/id/3936/fr/podcast Wed, 14 Jun 2006 01:17:22 EST slate news politics arts culture science 60:45 http://www.slate.com/id/2135990/ http://www.slate.com/id/2135990/ Slate's Audio Book Club. Critics Stephen Metcalf, Meghan O'Rourke, and Katie Roiphe discuss the novel Saturday by Ian McEwan. Thanks to the Housing Works Book Store Cafe in New York City for providing the venue for this month's club meeting. Podcasts http://fray.slate.com/id/3936/fr/podcast Wed, 31 May 2006 14:45:36 EST slate news politics arts culture science 58:19 http://www.slate.com/id/2140450/ http://www.slate.com/id/2140450/ Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Meghan O'Rourke, and Katie Roiphe sit down at the Housing Works Used Book Cafe in New York's Soho neighborhood to discuss The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion's memoir of the year following the death of her husband John Gregory Dunne, during which her daughter also came close to death. Podcasts http://fray.slate.com/id/3936/fr/podcast Wed, 31 May 2006 14:42:38 EST