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ABC: Swing Time by Zadie Smith

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3.8546 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Slate's Katy Waldman and Laura Miller discuss Zadie Smith's new novel, Swing Time with The New York Time's Parul Sehgal. The Slate Audio Book Club is brought to you by ThirdLove, the lingerie brand using real women’s measurements to design better-fitting bras. Try one of their best-selling bras for free for 30 days by visiting thirdlove.com/bookclub And by Blue Apron. Create delicious, home-cooked meals with fresh ingredients delivered right to your door. Get your first THREE meals FREE when you go to BlueApron.com/Audioclub. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:30.2

Hello, and welcome to Slate's Audio Book Club for the month of March 2017.

0:34.8

I'm Katie Weldon, a staff writer at Slate, and I'm joined today. They are both in the

0:39.0

New York studio by Parol Segal, a senior editor and columnist for the New York Times Book Review. Hello.

0:47.0

Hey, Katie. And Laura Miller, a books and culture critic at Slate. Hey, Laura. Hi, Katie. Swingtime is

0:54.1

the fifth novel by Zadie Smith,

0:55.9

and it follows the coming of age of an unnamed narrator from a gritty public housing in London to

1:01.5

college to the right hand of a mega pop star named Amy, who sends her all over the world, including

1:06.9

to West Africa, to open a school for women. Never far from her mind is her childhood friend Tracy, whom she met at a dance class and who fell out of her life in her 20s.

1:17.1

This is such a peculiar book in that it has this narrator who's kind of the core of it.

1:22.7

And yet her story is filtered through the stories of these women who seem to be much more present or much

1:30.8

much stronger forces in the book. So I guess I wanted to start by asking you guys, who is this

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