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Hi, and welcome to Slate's Audio Book Club for the month of November 2015.

I'm Katie Waldman, Words Correspondent at Slate, and I'm joined today in the D.C. studio by our culture editor, Dan Coice.

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Calling in from New York, we're lucky to have Slate Senior Editor Laura Bennett.

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And our Assistant Interactives editor, Andrew Kahn.

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It's so great to have all four of us together for this book about a quartet of friends who moved to New York.

So today we will be talking about A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara, and the normal rules about spoilers apply.

So if you care about spoilers, please pause

this podcast, read the book, and come back. See you soon. It's only 700 pages. All right. A little

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