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For readers who are listeners, for listeners looking for something to read—this feed includes book discussions and conversations with authors from across the Slate Podcast network.
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What Next: TBD | How Elon Wields Power
You can’t run the country like a company. Musk is learning that the hard way.
30 min
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ICYMI: The Harry Potter Fandom Faces Its Bigges...
49 min
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ICYMI: This Book Drama Gets Hotter in the DMs
27 min
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Decoder Ring | How “Chicken Soup” Sold Its Soul
The self-help book series’s strange journey from best-seller to meme stock.
44 min
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Gabfest Reads: How to Turn the Creative Process...
44 min
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Culture Gabfest | Seth Rogen’s Love/Hate Letter...
This week, the hosts discuss The Studio, Eephus, and Sunrise On The Reaping.
67 min
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Decoder Ring | How Books About Things That Chan...
Whether it’s cod, kudzu, or nutmeg, authors love to claim their subjects shaped history. Did they really?
51 min
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Outward: Renaissance Trans Theologies and Histo...
How Renaissance theology and literature reveal a long history of transition—socially, spiritually, and surgically
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How To! | Write Your Memoir
Patrick George of InsideEVs on finding your new ride.
42 min
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Gabfest Reads | The Day the Challenger Fell Fro...
Adam Higginbotham’s new book delves deep into the tragedy of the Challenger explosion and the impact the disaster has had on American culture.
32 min
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Supercommunicators | 3. How to Have the Hardest...
The inside story of how Netflix encouraged employees to talk about the hard stuff.
29 min
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Outward | Why Love Isn’t Apolitical: Liberation...
Bryan Lowder sits down with Dean Spade to talk about his new book Love in A F*cked Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together
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Culture Gabfest: Zero Day Makes Robert De Niro ...
This week, the hosts discuss Zero Day, remembering Gene Hackman, and how to engage with optimism during times of crisis.
63 min
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Supercommunicators | 2. How to Communicate With...
What we can learn about nonverbal cues from The Big Bang Theory.
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Culture Gabfest: The Oscars Go Streaming
This week, the hosts discuss I’m Still Here, Trump’s disruptions at the National Endowment for the Arts and the Kennedy Center, and an exclusive interview with Oscars CEO Bill Kramer.
66 min
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Death, Sex & Money | I Was Ready to Write About...
Comedian Chelsea Devantez talks about a core experience with an abusive ex-partner, and how she managed to tell her story while having to redact some of the details.
55 min
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Supercommunicators | 1. How to Talk to Anyone
The art and practice of asking the right questions.
30 min
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Culture Gabfest: Congratulations! You Finally G...
This week, the hosts discuss the return of Severance, the Oscar-nominated Palestinian film No Other Land, and Buzzfeed’s new social media platform BF Island.
55 min
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Gabfest Reads | A Former Haitian President’s Gr...
Rich Benjamin’s new book Talk to Me explores the coup that overthrew his grandfather, and the ripple affects the political upheaval had on his family.
30 min
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Death, Sex & Money | After Sobriety, Chasing Go...
Poet and novelist Kaveh Akbar explains how he balances a life full of obsessions.
42 min
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Culture Gabfest: One of Them Movies About Women...
This week, the hosts discuss One of Them Days, Asura, and the men of YouTube.
60 min
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Culture Gabfest: Chalamet Goes Electric
This week, the hosts discuss A Complete Unknown, On Call, and David Lynch’s legacy.
74 min
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Gabfest Reads | Finding Connection in the After...
Yael van der Wouden’s new book The Safekeep explores paranoia, loneliness, and obsession in the post-World War II Dutch countryside.
27 min
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Outward: Conversion Therapy and Survival with L...
Author Lucas Wilson reveals the pseudoscience, trauma, and lasting impact of conversion therapy
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Slate Money | Money Talks: Selling The American...
Jane Marie joins Emily to deep dive on MLMs.
37 min