Audio Book Club: A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-First Century, by Cristina Nehring

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🗓️ 20 August 2009

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Slate's Audio Book Club. Meghan O'Rourke, Katie Roiphe, and guest Laura Kipnis discuss Cristina Nehring's "A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-First Century." We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the August edition of our audio book club.
0:10.1	It's the dog days of summer, and we are perhaps appropriately going to be talking about the steamy topic of passionate love,
0:16.5	as written about by Christina Naring in her new polemic, A Vindication of Love,
0:22.2	reclaiming romance for the 21st century.
0:25.6	Joining me today are Katie Roifey, a culture critic at NYU and a regular audio book club
0:30.9	participant.
0:31.5	Welcome, Katie.
0:32.5	Hi.
0:33.2	And a guest participant, Laura Kipness, who is a slate contributor and the author of Against Love and The Female Thing.
0:40.7	Welcome, Laura.
0:41.5	Hi.
0:42.3	So before jumping in, I just want to say a word from our sponsors.
0:45.8	This podcast is sponsored by audible.com.
0:49.6	If you sign up for a one book a month subscription to Audible through our URL, you'll get
0:55.1	a credit good for one free book, which is a pretty good deal.
0:58.8	Even if you cancel your subscription during the 14-day free trial period, you can still
1:03.1	keep the book.
1:04.4	So the address is www.
1:06.6	www.audiblepodcast.com slash slate. So check it out. Okay, so this is by the author's own
1:15.7	contention of polemic. It is a kind of complicated argument with different elements that
1:21.1	hopefully we'll delve into about love and how feminism, with its emphasis on equitable
1:26.3	relationships, has either wittingly or unwittingly,
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