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Gabfest Reads| The Seven Rules of Trust

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Death, Sex & Money - Samin Nosrat’s Recipe for Self-Compassion

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Death, Sex & Money - What Hearing Aids and Anger Management Still Miss

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How To! | Learn to Love Your City

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How To! | Move to a New City

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Political Gabfest - Gabfest Reads | Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History

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How To! | Survive Getting Fired

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Death, Sex & Money - How a Former Polygamist “Sister Wife” Learned to Love Monogamy

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Political Gabfest - Gabfest Reads | The Radical Fund That Rewired American Progress

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How To! | Harness Your Anger

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Death, Sex & Money - Nick Offerman's Principled Hypocrisy

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How To! | Update: Losing Your ‘Virginity’ at 43

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Political Gabfest - Gabfest Reads | The Recent Past of Prison Punishment

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Death, Sex & Money - Private Equity Blew Up My Life

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Death, Sex & Money - Sex-Positive Parents, Crass Grandparents, and a Weird and Wonderful Childhood

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Gabfest Reads | The Four Years That Changed New York City Forever

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Death, Sex & Money - How the Ultra-Rich Think…and What They Fear

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Political Gabfest - Gabfest Reads | A Beach Read for the Outraged

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Political Gabfest - Gabfest Reads | Alison Bechdel Explains Selling Out the Progressive Way

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ICYMI - It’s International Bestselling Author Quan Millz

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ICYMI - Will MomTok Actually Change Mormonism?

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Outward | America’s Gay Restaurants with Erik Pipenberg

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Gabfest Reads | How to Create an Exceptional Family

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Outward: Slate's LGBTQ podcast - Queer Travel Writing with Alden Jones

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How To! | Parent With a Disability

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Death, Sex & Money - Isabel Allende on Grief, Ayahuasca, and Dating After 70

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ICYMI - The Harry Potter Fandom Faces Its Biggest Test

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ICYMI - This Book Drama Gets Hotter in the DMs

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Decoder Ring | How “Chicken Soup” Sold Its Soul

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Political Gabfest - Gabfest Reads | How to Turn the Creative Process Into “Good Trouble”

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Decoder Ring | How Books About Things That Changed the World… Changed the World

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Outward: Renaissance Trans Theologies and History with Colby Gordon

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How To! | Write Your Memoir

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Political Gabfest - Gabfest Reads | The Day the Challenger Fell From the Sky

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Supercommunicators | 3. How to Have the Hardest Conversations

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Outward | Why Love Isn’t Apolitical: Liberation and Rethinking Relationships

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Supercommunicators | 2. How to Communicate Without Words

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Death, Sex & Money - I Was Ready to Write About My Domestic Abuser—Then Lawyers Said No.

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Supercommunicators | 1. How to Talk to Anyone

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Political Gabfest - Gabfest Reads | A Former Haitian President’s Grandson Lives the Modern Immigrant Experience

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Death, Sex & Money - After Sobriety, Chasing Goosebumps Instead of Highs

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Political Gabfest - Gabfest Reads | Finding Connection in the Aftermath of History’s Horrors

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Outward: Conversion Therapy and Survival with Lucas Wilson

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Slate Money - Money Talks: Selling The American Dream

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Gabfest Reads: The Life and Legacy of John Lewis

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Death, Sex & Money - Chaz Ebert on Loss, Intuition and Her 'Cougar' Group Chat

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Outward: Masculinity and Muscles with Michael Andor Brodeur

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A Word | A Mother of a Crisis

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Political Gabfest - Gabfest Reads: How Two Rivals Shaped Birth Control in America

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Well, Now: Being a “Likeable Badass” Could Improve Your Health

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Money Talks: The Rise and Fall of Victoria’s Secret

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A Word | Star Man: Merlin’s Tour of the Universe

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Death, Sex & Money - The Making and Unmaking of a Productivity Perfectionist

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Slate Money - Money Talks: The Gambler Who Bet on Alibaba

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ICYMI - How to Thrive as a Party of One

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Puberty is Starting Earlier and Lasting Longer. Why?

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Slate Money - Money Talks: How Did Trump Scam America? Lots of Luck.

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Political Gabfest - Gabfest Reads: Finding Happiness During This Election Year

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Slate Money - Money Talks: We Could Run Out of Everything Again

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Outward: Slate's LGBTQ podcast - What Arabic LGBTQ+ Slang Tells Us with Marwan Kaabour

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A Word: Latinos for Trump…for Real

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Outward: Surviving Hate and Finding Joy as a Trans Teen with Nico Lang

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A Word: Tech’s Race Reckoning

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Political Gabfest - Political Gabfest: A Murder Mystery that Uncovers the Excitement in the Everyday and Ordinary

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Who Cares for the Caregivers?

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Slate Money - Money Talks: Under the Spell of Someone Else’s Wealth

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Revisiting Advice from Ashley C. Ford

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ICYMI - We May Have A New Bad Art Friend

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How To!: Survive a Disaster

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A Word: Prayer, Politics, and Power Shifts

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ICYMI - Allison Raskin on Leaving Buzzfeed and Friendship Breakups

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Death, Sex & Money - Life and Death Inside the Playboy Mansion

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How To!: Be a Family (and Still Be You)

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Slate Money - Money Talks: How to Save a Doomed Economy

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The Founder of a Life-Changing Writers’ Retreat

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Slate Money - Nate Silver and the Secret World of Risk-Takers

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Political Gabfest - Gabfest Reads: Where Does the American Jewish Experience Go from Here?

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Food Is More Than Fuel

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Death, Sex & Money - Miranda July’s Perimenopausal Thriller

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Slate Money - Money Talks: Can the Rich Really Lose It All?

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How To!: Date With a Disability

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Understanding the World Through Notebooks

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I Am Swamped With Plans and I Hate It. Help!

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Well, Now: How Nick Cannon Got Celebrities to Open Up About Their Mental Health

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How To!: Be a Mindful Grandparent

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An Author’s Mission to Make Her Readers Belly Laugh

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Death, Sex & Money - Sex Parties and Shakespeare With Carvell Wallace

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How to Photograph a Hardcore Punk Show

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Michelle Obama Gets Health Advice from This Gyno. Now You Can, Too.

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A Word: Journalism Under the Gun

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Outward: Slate's LGBTQ podcast - A History of Lesbian Fashion with Eleanor Medhurst

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How To!: Make Bank at a Yard Sale

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Gabfest Reads, Annie Bot: When a Sex Robot Catches Feelings

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How To!: Move Past Your Toxic Ex

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A Master Class in Character Description

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The Isolation of a Life-Threatening Diagnosis

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Death, Sex & Money - I Was Afraid of Losing Myself to Motherhood. I Found Myself Instead.

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How To!: Be Lonely

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Outward: The Trans History of the 1936 Olympics with Michael Waters

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A Much-Needed History of Queer Women’s Spaces

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Gabfest Reads: Why Americans Care About Animals

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My Mom Forgot to Take Her Medicine and “Accidentally” Made Racist Remarks. Help!

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Is Biohacking a Scam?

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Overcoming a Complicated Pregnancy

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How To!: Flirt With Confidence

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Writer Anne Lamott’s Difficult Personal Truths

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How To!: Carvell Wallace on Another Word for Love

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Living and Loving With OCD (feat. Allison Raskin)

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How Fact-Checking Can Improve Your Fiction

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Political Gabfest - Gabfest Reads: Can America Survive Its Relationships with Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin?

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My Wife’s Bipolar Diagnosis Is Creating A Rift in Our Marriage. Help!

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Outward: Slate's LGBTQ podcast - A History of the Gay Right with Neil J. Young

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Death, Sex & Money - A Sociopath's Guide to Death, Sex, and Money

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How to Be Both a Critic and a Creator

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Outward: Slate's LGBTQ podcast - Brontez Purnell on His New Memoir

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Slate Money - Money Talks: How to Escape the Invisible Factory

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My Partner Sticks Her Finger in Food to Taste Test It. Help!

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How To!: Make Humor Your Superpower (Encore)

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A Word: Love, Family, and Freedom’s Ultimate Price

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"People Feel Like They’re Drowning": The Long Covid Survivors Left Behind

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Political Gabfest - Gabfest Reads: How Tana French Uses Genre Tropes to Tell Great Human Stories

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My Ex Had Sex With My Brother. Help!

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How To!: Say What You’re Thinking

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An Acting Coach’s Tips for Beginners and Experts

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A Word: Freedom Fight Like a Woman

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I Want People to Shut Up! Help!

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How To!: Rethink Retirement

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How to Make a “Fair” Crossword Puzzle

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Well, Now: Ending Racism in Healthcare

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A Word: Diversity in the Diaspora

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Is it Burnout? Or, Do You Have a Busy Brain?

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Slate Money - Money Talks: I Was a Billionaire’s Right Hand

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How To!: Evolve a Friendship

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How to Write Every Day and Stick to It

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Political Gabfest - Gabfest Reads: Race, Money and Fictional Life at the University of Arkansas

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What We Get Wrong About Love

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A Biography With Very High Stakes

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Outward: Slate's LGBTQ podcast - A Short History of Transmisogyny with Jules Gill-Peterson

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How To!: Be a Mindful Drinker

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A Word: Revolutionary Recharge

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My Husband Stopped Using Soap and He Stinks. Help!

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ICYMI - The TikTok Joy of Mychal the Librarian

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Well, Now: Breaking Up With Diet Culture

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How To!: Stop Snoring and Breathe Easier (Encore)

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Political Gabfest - Gabfest Reads: How to Thrive in a World of Change

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A Word: Send In the Clowns?

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How To!: Make Small Talk Feel Big

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Outward: Raquel Willis is in Bloom

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A Word: A Multiverse of Problems

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ICYMI - Should We Quit Romance Novels?

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How To!: Age Like an Elite Athlete

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Political Gabfest - Gabfest Reads: A Woman’s Life in Museum Wall Labels

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In Defense of Lean In Feminism

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Where a Crime Writer’s Ideas Come From

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I Want to "Cancel" My Bad Boss But I'm Having Doubts. Help!

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A Word: Black Cop, White Mob

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Revisiting Advice from LeVar Burton

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Political Gabfest - Gabfest Reads: Watership Down Gets the Graphic Novel Treatment

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ICYMI - The Year in Celebrity Memoirs

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Slate Money - The Bully of Bridgewater

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What Next - Mitt Romney Reflects, Regrets, and Retires

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A F—ing Funny Lady

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What Next - How to Catch an Insurrectionist

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Writing Bestsellers With Anderson Cooper

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I’m Making Bitchy Comments to A Dog! Help!

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Political Gabfest - Gabfest Reads: How to Survive Working for Amazon

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Is It Okay to Ghost A Friend? Help!

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The Case For Taking A Sabbatical

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ICYMI - How a Substack Revived the Dracula Fandom

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A Word: Black Grief, White Grievance

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My Girlfriend Is Always Late! Help!

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Female CEOs Can’t Save Us

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A Crime Novel That Reinvents the Crime Novel

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A Word: Talk That Talk

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Meet an Artist Who Writes Comics About Jazz

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Slate Money - What is Your Face Worth?

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Political Gabfest - Gabfest Reads: Zadie Smith Knows You're a Fraud

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Outward: Slate's LGBTQ podcast - Mercury Stardust Helps Queer People Feel Safe and Sound at Home

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ICYMI - AI-Generated Books are Tarnishing Authors’ Reputations

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A Word: Wrong from the Beginning

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My Partner’s Relationship With His Ex Makes Me Feel Like the Third Wheel. Help!

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Slate Money - Optimal Illusions: The False Promise of Optimization

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Political Gabfest - Is Biden The Last Politician?

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Welcome to the A.I. Haunted House

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ICYMI - BookTok’s Horny Hockey Drama and the End of Internet Thirst

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Slate Money - Twelve Ways to Help Fix the World

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Slate Money - Slate Money Criminals: John Ackah Blay-Miezah

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Political Gabfest - Gabfest Reads: How a David Copperfield Reimagining Speaks to the Soul of Appalachia

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Outward: Slate's LGBTQ podcast - Red, White & Really Bad

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Mom & Dad: Avidly Reads Screen Time

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How To!: Cope With Climate Anxiety

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Hollywood is On Strike. Let’s Burn it Down.

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Could a Robot Be Your Dog’s Best Friend?

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A Word: The Rise of Post-Obama Racism

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Political Gabfest - Gabfest Reads: How the British Empire Twisted the Truth

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Slate Money - Wal-Mart v. Amazon: The Battle for Retail’s Soul

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Why Barbie Lives On

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Outward: Slate's LGBTQ podcast - The Pleasures and Politics of Cruising

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A TV Critic Pivots to Exposing Hollywood Abuses

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How To!: Hack Any Bureaucracy

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What Next - Can’t Stand the Heat

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Political Gabfest - Rural Arkansas Explored in an Extra Gabfest Reads

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Can Fairy Tales Be Feminist?

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How To!: Find Genuine Happiness

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Who Gets to Escape the Climate Crisis?

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A Word: Black and Proud

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Political Gabfest - Gabfest Reads: The Case for Treating Animals With Dignity

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A Word: More Than A Hashtag

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Outward: Slate's LGBTQ podcast - Lesbian Bars: A Love Story

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Slate Money - The SEC’s Crypto Crackdown

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Finding Love Without Romance

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Outward: Slate's LGBTQ podcast - Pride Special: Is “I Do” Best for You?

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A Prolific Novelist Takes a Breather

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A Word: My Father, the Spy

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The Hustle of Being Beautiful

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When Robots Go to War

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I Don’t Care If You Like Me

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Outward: Queer Utopian Fiction and Dystopian Reality TV

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Slate Money - The Felix Wrote A Book Episode!

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A Word: Dungeons, Dragons, and Diversity

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Political Gabfest - Gabfest Reads: The Classic Hollywood Romance Gets a Makeover

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How to Protect Your Kids From Diet Culture

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Slate Money - “Traffic”: Ben Smith and the Death of the Social Web

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Live. Love. Die. Repeat?

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Making Friends As An Adult

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Political Gabfest Reads: The Art of Writing Political Satire

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Outward: Slate's LGBTQ podcast - Are Advice Columns Intrinsically Queer?

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How To!: Start Reading Books Again

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A Memoir About an Identity in Flux

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A Word: The Battle for Eatonville

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The Waves: We Were Once a Family

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Can a Pandemic Story Have a Happy Ending?

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Future Tense Fiction: Coming March 25

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Gabfest Reads: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Semiconductors?

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A Word: No More “Black Picket Fence”

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A Word: Screaming in Color

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ICYMI - The Internet Hates Hogwarts Legacy

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It’s OK to Hate Your Spouse (Sometimes)

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How To!: 4000 Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

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A Hollywood Actor Learns to Write Novels

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Political Gabfest Reads: A Boarding School Thriller, But Make It Feminist

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A Word: Lights, Camera, Diversity in Action

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The Inherent Fear in Being a Woman

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A Word: Surviving “Driving While Black”

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The Bold Strategy That Drives One of 2023's Best Novels

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Slate Money - Chip War

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How a Man Writes Women Protagonists

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Learning From the Letters of Two Great Artists

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Slate Money - It’s Not TV

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Political Gabfest - Gabfest Reads: Two Horrifying Days in D.C.

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A Word: Haiti: Fear of a Black Republic

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Recipe Design With Convenience in Mind

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How To!: A Savage Order: How the World's Deadliest Countries Can Forge a Path to Security

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The Myths About Fat People

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Revisiting Two Great Books From 2022

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How To!: Forgiveness: An Exploration

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Political Gabfest - Gabfest Reads: Everything You Need to Know About Choosing a President

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Working Overtime: Write a Bad Novel!

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The Myth of Journalistic Objectivity

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The World Record Book of Racist Stories

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How To!: The Art of Gathering

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Understanding Bong Joon Ho’s Brilliance

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Fleishman - and Middle Aged Marriage - Are in Trouble

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How To!: Quit: The Power Of Knowing When to Walk Away

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Slate Money - Fleishman is in Trouble

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How To Write a Bestseller with Taffy Brodesser-Akner

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Political Gabfest - Gabfest Reads: Rethinking J. Edgar Hoover

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Ejaculate Responsibly

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ICYMI - The Internet Wouldn’t Exist Without Sex

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Oprah Has The Best Voice (and Other Vocal Thoughts)

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A Poet Demystifies Her Process

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A Word: Jim Crow’s Killers

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How To!: I Never Thought Of It That Way: How To Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times

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Slate Money: Meet Me by the Fountain

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Political Gabfest - Gabfest Reads: Tracy Flick Returns

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Why You Hate Women’s Voices

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How To!: Scream: Chilling Adventures in the Science of Fear

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A Word: How Tech Can Help—or Harm—Racial Justice

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Why the Law Cares About Your Sex

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How To!: Light on the Other Side Of Divorce

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How To!: Be Yourself in an Interracial Relationship

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Author Annie Duke Explains How to Get Better at Quitting

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How To!: The Price You Pay for College

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Political Gabfest - Gabfest Reads: Searching for a Happy Ending

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How To!: The Upside of Uncertainty

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Reporter Casey Parks on the Book She Needed to Write

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The Undying Appeal of Very Sexy Trash

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A Dream Defaulted: Black College Debt

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What Next - Best Of 2022 | When Your Book Gets Banned By the School Board

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Ballers and Shot Callers

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Why Jane Austen Still Slaps

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ICYMI - Encore: How a Harry Potter Fanfic Took Over the Internet

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Political Gabfest - Gabfest Reads: Life on Europa Looks Too Much Like America

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Outward: Slate's LGBTQ podcast - Viruses and Our Profoundly Unequal World

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Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard

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Political Gabfest - Gabfest Reads: Revolution Through Teenage Eyes

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They Want to Kill Americans

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Political Gabfest: Lowest Approval Rating

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The Caregiver Crisis

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How To!: Sensual Self

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Political Gabfest - Gabfest Reads: Corrections in Ink

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How Gone Girl Changed Publishing

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The Truth About “Normal” Sex

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ICYMI - Did One Direction Create the Internet?

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Outward: Slate's LGBTQ podcast - Pride Month Special: A Pioneering Lesbian Photographer

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Political Gabfest - Gabfest Reads: Coming of Age in the Nineties

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What Reality TV Says About Us

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Outward: Slate's LGBTQ podcast - Prisons in Queer History and Pop Culture

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How To!: The Lazy Genius Way

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Joy and Pain: Navigating Grief

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Writer Hannah Kirshner on Japanese Artisans and Immersive Reporting

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How To!: Start Writing (w/ Anna Quindlen & John Dickerson)

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Political Gabfest - Gabfest Reads: He Wanted to Die Holding Hands

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Lend Me Your Ears: Julius Caesar

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ABC: The Sparsholt Affair by Alan Hollinghurst

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ABC: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

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ABC: Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

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ABC: The Odyssey, Translated By Emily Wilson

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ABC: Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan

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ABC: What Happened by Hillary Clinton

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ABC: Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney

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ABC: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy

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ABC: Do Not Become Alarmed by Maile Meloy

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ABC: Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays by Durga Chew-Bose

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ABC: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

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ABC: Lincoln In the Bardo by George Saunders

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ABC: The Art of War by Sun Tzu

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ABC: Swing Time by Zadie Smith

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ABC: Bob Dylan's The Lyrics: 1961-2012

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ABC: Postcards from the Edge by Carrie Fisher

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ABC: Moonglow by Michael Chabon

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ABC: The Underground Railroad and Underground Airlines

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ABC: Shrill

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ABC: The Girls

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ABC: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

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ABC: All the Single Ladies

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ABC: Eligible

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ABC: Lab Girl

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ABC: When Breath Becomes Air

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ABC: Better Living Through Criticism

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"A Manual for Cleaning Women" by Lucia Berlin

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"Purity" by Jonathan Franzen

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"Fates and Furies" by Lauren Groff

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"A Little Life" by Hanya Yanagihara

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"The Martian" by Andy Weir

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"Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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"Go Set a Watchman" by Harper Lee

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"Station Eleven" by Emily St. John Mandel

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"All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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"H Is for Hawk" by Helen MacDonald

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"How to Be Both" by Ali Smith

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"The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins

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ABC: The Night of the Gun by David Carr

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ABC: Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James

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"Redeployment" by Phil Klay

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"My Brilliant Friend" by Elena Ferrante

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

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"The Magician's Land" by Lev Grossman

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"Wild" by Cheryl Strayed

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"The Bad Feminist" by Roxane Gay

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

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"My Struggle" by Karl Ove Knausgaard

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"Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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"Dept. of Speculation" by Jenny Offill

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"Where'd You Go, Bernadette" by Maria Semple

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"Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

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"The Group" by Mary McCarthy

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"The Good Lord Bird" by James McBride

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"The Goldfinch" by Donna Tartt

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"Bleeding Edge" by Thomas Pynchon

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"Ender’s Game" by Orson Scott Card

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"The Flamethrowers" by Rachel Kushner

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"Life After Life" by Kate Atkinson

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"The Interestings" by Meg Wolitzer

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"Tenth of December" by George Saunders

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"Swann's Way" by Marcel Proust

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"Going Clear" by Lawrence Wright

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"Arcadia" by Lauren Groff

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"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

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"Behind the Beautiful Forevers" by Katherine Boo

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"NW" by Zadie Smith

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"Cloud Atlas" by David Mitchell

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"How Should a Person Be?" by Sheila Heti

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"Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn

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"Capital" by John Lanchester

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"Fifty Shades of Grey" by E. L. James

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"Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama" by Alison Bechdel

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"The Good Mother" by Sue Miller

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"This Beautiful Life" by Helen Schulman

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"The Submission" by Amy Waldman

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"A Visit From the Goon Squad" by Jennifer Egan

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The "Harry Potter" Series by J.K. Rowling

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"Caleb’s Crossing" by Geraldine Brooks

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"Killer Angels" by Michael Shaara

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"Moonwalking with Einstein" by Joshua Foer

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"Swamplandia!" by Karen Russell

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"Room" by Emma Donoghue

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"Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" by Amy Chua

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Lydia Davis’ Translation of "Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert

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"Lord of Misrule" by Jaimy Gordon

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"Great House" by Nicole Krauss

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"Remainder" by Tom McCarthy

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"Freedom" by Jonathan Franzen

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"Super Sad True Love Story" by Gary Shteyngart

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"The Imperfectionists" by Tom Rachman

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"Imperial Bedrooms" by Bret Easton Ellis

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"Reality Hunger - A Manifesto" by David Shields

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"The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

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"To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee

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"The Surrendered" by Chang-rae Lee

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"The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine" by Michael Lewis

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"Wolf Hall" by Hilary Mantel

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"White Noise" by Don DeLillo

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"Lit" by Mary Karr

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"The Original of Laura" by Vladimir Nabokov

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"The Bath" and "A Small Good Thing" by Raymond Carver

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"The Anthologist" by Nicholson Baker

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"The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger

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"A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-First Century" by Cristina Nehring

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"Thy Neighbor's Wife" by Gay Talese

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John Cheever's "The Swimmer" and Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard To Find"

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"Atmospheric Disturbances" by Rivka Galchen

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"Infinite Jest" by David Foster Wallace

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"Rabbit, Run" by John Updike

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Note on Infinite Jest and Rabbit, Run

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An Inauguration Novella, Part 5 of 5

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An Inauguration Novella, Part 4 of 5

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An Inauguration Novella, Part 3 of 5

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An Inauguration Novella, Part 2 of 5

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An Inauguration Novella, Part 1 of 5

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"The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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"The Night of the Gun" by David Carr

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"American Wife" by Curtis Sittenfeld

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"Brideshead Revisited" by Evelyn Waugh

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"Netherland" by Joseph O'Neill

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"Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy

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"Beautiful Children" by Charles Bock

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"All the King's Men" by Robert Penn Warren

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"Eat, Pray, Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert

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"Tree of Smoke" by Denis Johnson

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Slate's Audio Book Club: The Audacity of Hope

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Slate's Audio Book Club: "The Road," by Cormac McCarthy

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Slate's Audio Book Club: "The House of Mirth" by Edith Wharton

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Slate's Audio Book Club: "Independence Day" by Richard Ford

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Slate's Audio Book Club: "The Emperor's Children" by Claire Messud

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Slate's Audio Book Club: "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

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Slate's Audio Book Club: "Beloved" by Toni Morrison

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Slate's Audio Book Club: "Everyman" by Philip Roth

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Slate's Audio Book Club: "Saturday" by Ian McEwan

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Slate's Audio Book Club: "The Year of Magical Thinking" by Joan Didion

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