Audio Book Club show

Audio Book Club

Summary: 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.

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Podcasts:

 ABC: Cheryl Strayed's Wild | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2649

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

 ABC: The Bad Feminist | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2564

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

 Audio Book Club: Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3027

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

 The Audio Book Club: My Struggle | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3401

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.

 The Audio Book Club: Americanah | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3012

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

 The Audio Book Club: Dept. of Speculation | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2515

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.

 The Audio Book Club: Where'd You Go, Bernadette | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2327

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

 The Audio Book Club Live: Slaughterhouse-Five | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 4315

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

 Audio Book Club: The Group | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3167

Slate critics David Haglund, Emily Bazelon and Meghan O'Rourke discuss Mary McCarthy's classic 1953 novel.

 Audio Book Club: The Good Lord Bird | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2858

Slate critics Dan Kois, Emily Bazelon, and David Haglund discuss James McBride’s National Book Award winning novel about slavery and John Brown.

 Audio Book Club: The Goldfinch | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2906

Slate critics Dan Kois, Hanna Rosin, and Meghan O’Rourke discuss Donna Tartt’s big literary adventure novel.

 The Audio Book Club: Bleeding Edge | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2575

Slate critics Dan Kois, Hanna Rosin, and Forrest Wickman discuss Thomas Pynchon's mystery set in the New York tech world around 9/11.

 The Audio Book Club: Ender’s Game | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2663

Slate critics David Haglund, Emily Bazelon, and Meghan O’Rourke discuss Orson Scott Card’s science fiction classic.

 The Audio Book Club: The Flamethrowers | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2531

Slate critics Dan Kois, Hanna Rosin, and David Haglund debate Rachel Kushner’s novel of the New York art scene, Italian revolutionaries, and motorcycle racing.

 Audio Book Club: Life After Life | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2523

Slate 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.

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