Sinopsis
Join Slate's critics for monthly discussions of new and important books. Read the book club selections and then listen in as our critics hold lively - and sometimes heated - debates about the works. Part of the Panoply Network.
Episodios
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Audio Book Club: Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
07/08/2014 Duración: 50minSlate critics Dan Kois, Emily Bazelon, and Hanna Rosin discuss Roz Chast's cartoon memoir about her parents' decline. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Audio Book Club: My Struggle
11/07/2014 Duración: 56minSlate's Dan Kois and David Haglund talk with New York Times Book Review editor Parul Sehgal about Book 1 of Karl Ove Knausgaard's 6-volume autobiographical epic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Audio Book Club: Americanah
06/06/2014 Duración: 50minSlate critics Dan Kois, Jamelle Bouie, and Emily Bazelon discuss Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's novel about Nigerians immigrating abroad and returning home. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Audio Book Club: Dept. of Speculation
09/05/2014 Duración: 41minSlate critics Dan Kois, Meghan O'Rourke, and Jessica Winter discuss Jenny Offill's novel about the struggle to make art part of a full life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Audio Book Club: Where'd You Go, Bernadette
11/04/2014 Duración: 38minSlate critics Dan Kois, Emily Bazelon, and Meghan O'Rourke discuss Maria Semple's bestselling comic novel set in Seattle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Audio Book Club Live: Slaughterhouse-Five
07/03/2014 Duración: 01h11minRecorded live at Town Hall Seattle, Dan Kois, Hanna Rosin, and special guest Hugh Howey discuss Kurt Vonnegut's countercultural classic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Audio Book Club: The Group
06/02/2014 Duración: 52minSlate critics David Haglund, Emily Bazelon and Meghan O'Rourke discuss Mary McCarthy's classic 1953 novel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Audio Book Club: The Good Lord Bird
10/01/2014 Duración: 47minSlate critics Dan Kois, Emily Bazelon, and David Haglund discuss James McBride’s National Book Award winning novel about slavery and John Brown. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Audio Book Club: The Goldfinch
05/12/2013 Duración: 48minSlate critics Dan Kois, Hanna Rosin, and Meghan O’Rourke discuss Donna Tartt’s big literary adventure novel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Audio Book Club: Bleeding Edge
08/11/2013 Duración: 40minSlate critics Dan Kois, Hanna Rosin, and Forrest Wickman discuss Thomas Pynchon's mystery set in the New York tech world around 9/11. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Audio Book Club: Ender’s Game
11/10/2013 Duración: 44minSlate critics David Haglund, Emily Bazelon, and Meghan O’Rourke discuss Orson Scott Card’s science fiction classic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Audio Book Club: The Flamethrowers
05/09/2013 Duración: 42minSlate critics Dan Kois, Hanna Rosin, and David Haglund debate Rachel Kushner’s novel of the New York art scene, Italian revolutionaries, and motorcycle racing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Audio Book Club: Life After Life
08/08/2013 Duración: 42minSlate critics Dan Kois, Emily Bazelon, and Katy Waldman discuss Kate Atkinson’s historical novel about a British woman who lives World War II over and over again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Audio Book Club: The Interestings
11/07/2013 Duración: 42minSlate critics Dan Kois, Hanna Rosin, and David Plotz discuss Meg Wolitzer's novel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Slate Audio Book Club: Tenth of December
17/06/2013 Duración: 42minSlate critics Dan Kois and David Haglund discuss George Saunders’ celebrated collection of short stories. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Slate Audio Book Club: Swann's Way
02/05/2013 Duración: 42minEmily Bazelon, David Haglund, and Meghan O'Rourke celebrate the 100th anniversary of the first volume of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Audio Book Club: Going Clear
12/04/2013 Duración: 48minSlate critics Dan Kois, Hanna Rosin, and Meghan O'Rourke discuss Lawrence Wright's epic investigation into Scientology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Audio Book Club: Arcadia by Lauren Groff
01/03/2013 Duración: 51minSlate’s Dan Kois, Hanna Rosin, and David Haglund discuss Lauren Groff’s novel of a 1970s hippie commune. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Audio Book Club: Pride and Prejudice
01/02/2013 Duración: 47minSlate’s David Plotz, Julia Turner, and Seth Stevenson celebrate Jane Austen’s classic novel on its 200th birthday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Audio Book Club: Katherine Boo’s Behind the Beautiful Forevers
04/01/2013 Duración: 50minSlate critics Dan Kois, Hanna Rosin, and Emily Bazelon discuss Katherine Boo’s National Book Award-winning story of life in a Mumbai slum. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices