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I'm Brian Louder, an editor at Slate, and I'm really excited about this week's show

because we're finally going to get a chance to talk about a book that I've been wanting to cover

since it came out earlier this year. It's called Swole, The Making of Men and the Meaning of Muscle,

by Michael Andrew Broder. Now, in case some of those words make you a little itchy,

know that Michael is gay and a very talented critic, so this is

definitely not some unexamined Jimbrose circle jerk. Instead, it is a kaleidoscopic mix of memoir,

history, criticism, and political commentary with writing that is just bursting at the seams

with intelligence, warmth, and humor. And it all circles around this question of why so many men,

including the author, want to be big. And it also explores what that desire can teach us about the

evolution of masculinity over time, as well as the crisis that it seems to be experiencing today.

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