Slate's Audio Book Club

Slate's Audio Book Club

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Slate's Audio Book Club episodes

  • "We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves" by Karen Joy Fowler

    Slate critics Dan Kois, Hanna Rosin, and Emily Bazelon discuss Karen Joy Fowler's novel about an all-too-human family.

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    36 min
  • "The Magician's Land" by Lev Grossman

    Slate critics Dan Kois, Choire Sicha, and Miriam Krule discuss Lev Grossman's fantasy trilogy.

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    37 min
  • "Wild" by Cheryl Strayed

    Slate critics Dan Kois, Parul Sehgal, and Katy Waldman discuss Cheryl Strayed's memoir.

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    42 min
  • "The Bad Feminist" by Roxane Gay

    Slate's Audio Book Club take on Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay's book of essays on gender, race and her messy life.

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    41 min
  • "Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?" by Roz Chast

    Slate critics Dan Kois, Emily Bazelon, and Hanna Rosin discuss Roz Chast's cartoon memoir about her parents' decline.

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    48 min
  • "My Struggle" by Karl Ove Knausgaard

    Slate'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.

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    55 min
  • "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    Slate critics Dan Kois, Jamelle Bouie, and Emily Bazelon discuss Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's novel about Nigerians immigrating abroad and returning home.

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    48 min
  • "Dept. of Speculation" by Jenny Offill

    Slate 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.

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    40 min
  • "Where'd You Go, Bernadette" by Maria Semple

    Slate critics Dan Kois, Emily Bazelon, and Meghan O'Rourke discuss Maria Semple's bestselling comic novel set in Seattle.

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    37 min
  • "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

    Recorded live at Town Hall Seattle, Dan Kois, Hanna Rosin, and special guest Hugh Howey discuss Kurt Vonnegut's countercultural classic.

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    1 hr 10 min

About Slate's Audio Book Club

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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.

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