ABC: Moonglow by Michael Chabon

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3.8 • 546 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2016

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Katy Waldman is joined by Slate's Gabriel Roth and Jacob Brogan to Michael Chabon's new novel Moonglow. Join us in January for a conversation about Bob Dylan's The Lyrics 1961-2012. The Slate Audio Book Club is brought to you by Audible, with an unmatched selection of audiobooks, original audio shows, and more. Get a free audiobook with a 30 day trial by signing up at Audible.com/audiobookclub. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:07.1	Hello, and welcome to Slate's Audio Book Club for the month of December 2016.
0:11.9	I'm Katie Waldman, a staff writer here at Slate, and I'm joined today in the D.C. studio by Jacob
0:17.0	Brogan. Jacob is a D.C. based writer and and editor whom you may know as the host of the podcast
0:21.7	working. Hello. And calling in from New York is Gabriel Roth, a Slate Senior Editor and the
0:26.9	editorial director of Slate Plus. Hi, Katie. So before we get started, I'd like to throw to Gabe,
0:33.0	who has some important information for listeners about Slate Plus. Thank you guys for having me on the show.
0:38.2	I'm super excited to talk about Michael Sheaubon's moon glow, which we will be doing in just a minute.
0:42.5	But first, I wanted to let everyone know about Slate Plus, which is Slate's membership program.
0:47.1	If you like the work that Slate does, if you enjoy our website and our podcasts, if you found our coverage useful over the election season,
0:53.9	and you want to help us cover the Trump administration, if you love our cultural coverage or anything else that we do, please consider joining Slate Plus.
1:01.8	Our membership program, members help support everything that we do, make our work possible.
1:07.2	They also get a bunch of exclusive content and lots of other great features.
1:10.9	You can find out everything you need to know by going to slate.com slash plus.
1:15.4	You can also find out how badly I did on the Slate News Quiz every week.
1:20.7	Well, that sounds very enticing and tempting.
1:24.2	Thank you for that, Jacob and Gabriel. As Gabe mentioned, our book this month
1:29.8	is the latest novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Sheban. It's Moonglow. Part family memoir,
1:35.8	part tall tale, part realist fiction. This is the story of a character known only as My Grandfather,
1:41.3	a kind of Jewish superhero whose life mirrors and intersects with the life of
1:44.9	the country, from World War II through the present. Tong loosened by painkillers, this man
1:49.6	starts unspooling his memories to our narrator, Mike, during his final 10 days. The stories emerge
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