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ABC: Purity

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3.8546 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2016

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Slate critic, Katy Waldman, is joined by Parul Sehgal of the New York Times Book Review and culture critic, Meghan O'Rourke, to discuss Jonathan Franzen's Dickensian novel – Purity.   Next month, Slate's Audio Book Club will discuss A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin. Read the book and join us for a conversation in February!   Slate's Audio Book Club is brought to you by Audible.com, with more than 180,000 audiobooks and spoken-word audio products. Get a free 30-day trial and a free audiobook at AudiblePodcast.com/ABC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The following podcast contains explicit language.

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Hi, and welcome to Slate's Audio Book Club for the month of January 2016.

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I'm Katie Waldman, Words Correspondent at Slate, and I'm joined today from New York by

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Perl Segal from the New York Times Book Review.

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Hi, Perl.

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Hey, Poole.

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Hey, Katie.

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Hey, Megan.

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Hey, Megan.

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Hi, Katie, and Perl.

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Today we'll be discussing P purity, the latest novel from

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