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DoubleX Audio Book Club: Nicole Krauss’ Great H...
In this week’s gabfest, DoubleX's Emily Bazelon and Hanna Rosin, along with The New Yorker’s Margaret Talbot, discuss Nicole Krauss’ latest novel, Great House. They discuss why this novel is less light hearted than Krauss’ last one, The History of Love.
39 min
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DoubleX Gabfest: The Burn Your Pink Ribbon Edition
DoubleX editors Hanna Rosin and Jessica Grose along with Slate’s Emily Yoffe discuss misguided breast cancer awareness efforts, the release of Myanmar dissident Aung San Suu Kyi, the New York Times Magazine article Housewives of God, and Thanksgiving.
33 min
478
Double X Gabfest: The Reality-Show Candidates E...
Slate writers Dahlia Lithwick, Hanna Rosin and Emily Yoffe discuss the results of the midterm elections and what they mean for women. Lithwick asks: Does momism also affect the Supreme Court?
32 min
479
DoubleX Gabfest: The Krystal Ball Edition
DoubleX's Emily Bazelon and Hanna Rosin, along with The New Yorker’s Margaret Talbot, discuss the 28-year old Virginia candidate for Congress, Krystal Ball, the phone call Ginni Thomas placed to Anita Hill, and the appalling behavior of a Yale fraternity.
39 min
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DoubleX Audio Book Club: Jonathan Franzen’s Fre...
In this week's audio book club, DoubleX's Emily Bazelon and Hanna Rosin and The New Yorker's Margaret Talbot discuss Jonathan Franzen's Freedom. The novel follows Patty and Walter Berglund's failing marriage and serves as a commentary on how we live.
51 min
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DoubleX Gabfest: The Ritual Matricide Edition
DoubleX’s Emily Bazelon and Hanna Rosin and the New Yorker’s Margaret Talbot discuss Christine O’Donnell, Rebecca Traister’s new book Big Girls Don’t Cry, and Susan Faludi’s essay on feminism in Harper’s.
30 min
482
DoubleX Gabfest: The Sister Wives Edition
DoubleX’s Hanna Rosin and Jessica Grose along with the New Yorker’s Margaret Talbot discuss young women outearning their male counterparts, Jennifer Weiner, Jodi Picoult and the Franzenfreude frenzy, and Jenny Slate’s exit from Saturday Night Live.
33 min
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DoubleX Gabfest: The Mercurial Mommy Edition
In this week's Gabfest, DoubleX’s Jessica Grose and Hanna Rosin along with Slate’s June Thomas discuss Sarah Palin’s primary endorsements, a new palliative care study, and Jennifer Aniston’s terrible rom com record
38 min
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DoubleX Audio Book Club: Mr. Peanut
DoubleX’s Hanna Rosin and Emily Bazelon along with the New Yorker’s Margaret Talbot discuss Adam Ross’s debut novel, Mr. Peanut.
39 min
485
DoubleX Gabfest: The Leave Chelsea Alone Edition
In this week's Gabfest, DoubleX's Emily Bazelon, Hanna Rosin and Jessica Grose discuss the abortion documentary 12th & Delaware, the Time Magazine cover story on only children, and Chelsea Clinton's wedding.
34 min
486
DoubleX Gabfest: The Happiest Clams Edition
In this week's Gabfest, Jessica Grose of DoubleX and Nina Rastogi and June Thomas of Slate discuss a new Pew study on gender equality, the New York Magazine cover story about motherhood and unhappiness, and the new Showtime series The Real L Word.
34 min
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DoubleX Audio Book Club: The Immortal Life of H...
DoubleX editors Hanna Rosin and Emily Bazelon, along with The New Yorker's Margaret Talbot, discuss Rebecca Skloot's new non-fiction book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
33 min
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DoubleX Gabfest: The Big Red F Edition
In this week's Gabfest, DoubleX founding editors Emily Bazelon and Hanna Rosin and managing editor Jessica Grose discuss Al and Tipper Gore's separation, Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman's California races, and the backlash to the Sex and the City 2 backlash.
35 min
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DoubleX Gabfest: The Which Lie Is Worse Edition
In this week's Gabfest, Emily Bazelon and Hanna Rosin of DoubleX and The New Yorker’s Margaret Talbot discuss Elena Kagan’s singledom, Republican Mark Souder’s sex scandal, and Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal's lie about his war record.
28 min
490
DoubleX Audio Book Club: The Surrendered
DoubleX editors Hanna Rosin and Emily Bazelon along with The New Yorker's Margaret Talbot discuss Chang-rae Lee's new novel, The Surrendered.
42 min
491
DoubleX Gabfest: The All-Sarah Edition
Hanna Rosin and Jessica Grose of DoubleX and Slate media critic Jack Shafer discuss Sarah Palin's speaking tour, Sarah Brown and the treatment of political wives in the British election, and a few recent profiles of comedian Sarah Silverman.
29 min
492
DoubleX Gabfest: The Bottle Girls and Basketbal...
Hanna Rosin and Jessica Grose of DoubleX and Slate media critic Jack Shafer discuss the New York Magazine cover story "The Half-Hooker Economy," women's basketball player Brittney Griner, and whether women are becoming more violent.
32 min
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DoubleX Audio Book Club: The Three Weissmanns o...
DoubleX's Emily Bazelon and Hanna Rosin and The New Yorker's Margaret Talbot discuss Cathleen Schine's new novel The Three Weissmanns of Westport.
36 min
494
DoubleX Gabfest: Too Tired for Sex Edition
Hanna Rosin and Jessica Grose of DoubleX along with Slate's Jack Shafer
27 min
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DoubleX Gabfest: The Bond Girl Edition
Hanna Rosin and Jessica Grose of DoubleX and Margaret Talbot of The New Yorker discuss South Korean skater Kim Yu-Na's Bond girl routine, Michelle Obama's childhood obesity campaign, and Judith Warner's new book on medicating children, We've Got Issues.
31 min
496
DoubleX Audio Book Club: Elizabeth Gilbert’s Co...
Emily Bazelon, Hanna Rosin and Jessica Grose, editors of DoubleX, Slate’s section for women, discuss Elizabeth Gilbert’s new memoir Committed.
26 min
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Slate, DoubleX Gabfest: Spouses and Staches Edi...
Jessica Grose and Hanna Rosin, editors of Slate's women's magazine DoubleX, discuss topics in the news. This week: The New Yorker's Margaret Talbot joins to talk about a Pew report called "The Rise of Wives", the gay marriage trial in California and whether Tina Fey can bring back the female mustache.
28 min
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Slate, DoubleX Gabfest: Saint or Sinner Edition
Emily Bazelon, Jessica Grose and Hanna Rosin, editors of Slate's women's magazine DoubleX.com discuss the portrayal of women in the 2008 Presidential campaign in the new book "Game Change". The trial of the suspected killer in the murder of the abortion doctor in Kansas, George Tiller. And a recent essay the Atlantic by Caitlin Flanagan which is a frontal attack of the school garden movement in California.
28 min
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DoubleX Gabfest: Audio Book Club on Alice Munro...
Emily Bazelon and Hanna Rosin, editors of Slate's new women's magazine DoubleX.com, and "New Yorker" writer Margaret Talbot discuss topics in the news. This week: a discussion of Alice Munro's book "Too Much Happiness"
31 min
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DoubleX Gabfest: The Between Tiger and Desire E...
Emily Bazelon and Hanna Rosin, editors of Slate's new women's magazine DoubleX.com, discuss topics in the news. This week: Slate's Jack Shafer joins to talk about Tiger Woods, Abortion and Pro Choice, and the mystery of female desire.
30 min