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: John Cheever's 'The Swimmer,' and Flannery O'Connor's 'A Good Man is Hard To Find'
18/06/2009 Duración: 45minSlate's Audio Book Club. Meghan O'Rourke, Katie Roiphe, and Troy Patterson discuss two short stories - John Cheever's 'The Swimmer,' and Flannery O'Connor's 'A Good Man is Hard To Find.' We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Audio Book Club: Atmospheric Disturbances, by Rivka Galchen
21/05/2009 Duración: 47minSlate's Audio Book Club. Meghan O'Rourke, Katie Roiphe, and Troy Patterson discuss Rivka Galchen's Atmospheric Disturbances. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Slate's Audio Book Club: Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace
18/03/2009 Duración: 01h01minSlate's Audio Book Club. Katie Roiphe, Troy Patterson, and James Surowiecki discuss David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Slate's Audio Book Club: Rabbit, Run, by John Updike
19/02/2009 Duración: 53minSlate's Audio Book Club. Meghan O'Rourke, Troy Patterson, and Katie Roiphe discuss John Updike's Rabbit, Run. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Note on Infinite Jest and Rabbit, Run
07/02/2009 Duración: 03minThe Slate Audio Book Club's discussion of Infinite Jest will be posted in March. In the meantime, we'll be discussing Rabbit, Run by John Updike the week of Feb. 16. Listen for more details. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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An Inauguration Novella, Part 5 of 5
20/01/2009 Duración: 16min"All Along, This Was What Was Supposed to Happen," an original novella about the inauguration written and read by Curtis Sittenfeld. Part 5 of 5. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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An Inauguration Novella, Part 4 of 5
19/01/2009 Duración: 15min"All Along, This Was What Was Supposed to Happen," an original novella about the inauguration written and read by Curtis Sittenfeld. Part 4 of 5. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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An Inauguration Novella, Part 3 of 5
16/01/2009 Duración: 12min"All Along, This Was What Was Supposed to Happen," an original novella about the inauguration written and read by Curtis Sittenfeld. Part 3 of 5. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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An Inauguration Novella, Part 2 of 5
15/01/2009 Duración: 12min"All Along, This Was What Was Supposed to Happen," an original novella about the inauguration written and read by Curtis Sittenfeld. Part 2 of 5. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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An Inauguration Novella, Part 1 of 5
14/01/2009 Duración: 15min"All Along, This Was What Was Supposed to Happen," an original novella about the inauguration written and read by Curtis Sittenfeld. Part 1 of 5. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Slate's Audio Book Club: The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
25/11/2008 Duración: 46minSlate's Audio Book Club. Stephen Metcalf, Troy Patterson, and Katie Roiphe discuss the American classic The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Slate's Audio Book Club: The Night of the Gun, by David Carr
09/10/2008 Duración: 49minSlate's Audio Book Club. Meghan O'Rourke, Katie Roiphe, and Troy Patterson discuss New York Times columnist David Carr's The Night of the Gun, a memoir in which he uses his journalistic skills to dig up the details he's forgotten about his earlier life as a drug addict. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program. The next book we'll be discussing is The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Slate's Audio Book Club: American Wife, by Curtis Sittenfeld
08/09/2008 Duración: 47minSlate's Audio Book Club. Meghan O'Rourke, Katie Roiphe, and Julia Turner discuss the novel American Wife, by Curtis Sittenfeld. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Slate's Audio Book Club: Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
06/08/2008 Duración: 57minSlate's Audio Book Club. Meghan O'Rourke, Troy Patterson, and Katie Roiphe discuss the novel Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Slate's Audio Book Club: Netherland, by Joseph O'Neill
16/07/2008 Duración: 47minSlate's Audio Book Club. Stephen Metcalf, Meghan O'Rourke, and Katie Roiphe discuss the novel Netherland, by Joseph O'Neill. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Slate's Audio Book Club: Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
04/06/2008 Duración: 47minSlate's Audio Book Club. Stephen Metcalf, Troy Patterson, and Katie Roiphe discuss Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Slate's Audio Book Club: Beautiful Children, by Charles Bock
16/04/2008 Duración: 36minSlate'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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Slate's Audio Book Club: All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren
13/03/2008 Duración: 54minSlate'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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Slate: Audio Book Club: Eat, Pray, Love
07/02/2008 Duración: 59minSlate'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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Slate's Audio Bookclub: Tree of Smoke
03/01/2008 Duración: 51minSlate'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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices