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I'm Stephen Metcalf, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest, Eat, Prey Vomit Edition.

It's Wednesday, August 18, 2010, and on today's program, Julia Roberts in Eat, Pray, Love, the Sanctity of Academic

Tenure, and the Great Multigrain Bagel Standoff.

Joining me today, our Slate's deputy editor, Julia Turner.

Hello, Julia.

Hi, Steve.

And, of course, our film critic, Dana Stevens, Dana.

Hey.

Hey, Stephen.

Dana, you're the film critic of Slate.

You saw and reviewed this movie.

So in that sense, right now, you're the finger in the dyke of my hatred.

So why don't you start speaking before I explode?

Okay.

All I want to do is just something that will unleash the hatred.

And I also want to throw all of our listeners back if they've never heard it as prior

research to the Slate Audio Book Club on Eat, Pray, Love, the book, which came out a couple

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