Political Gabfest: A Murder Mystery that Uncovers the Excitement in the Everyday and Ordinary

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

Politics, Government, News

4.5 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

On this month’s edition of Gabfest Reads, Political Gabfest host David Plotz talks with author Elizabeth Strout about her new book, Tell Me Everything. They discuss how Strout conceives of interconnected stories and characters across her work, including the return of beloved characters like Olive Kitteridge. They also dig into the importance of listening and the ways ordinary lives can be extraordinary. Tweet us your questions @SlateGabfest or email us at [email protected]. (Messages could be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Cheyna Roth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, it's Mary Harris, host of Slates Daily News Podcast, what next?
0:04.4	Believe it or not, we are in the final stretch of election season.
0:08.1	But these last few weeks are going to be a little rough.
0:11.0	That's why we're launching the surge. Every Friday I'm going to sit down
0:13.8	with Slates Jim Newell and go through the wild week in politics. These episodes are
0:18.7	only going to be available to Slade Plus members.
0:22.6	Visit Slate.com forward slash What Next Plus to get access wherever you listen.
0:26.7	Check out What Next, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:29.2	And check out the surge on What Next Plus? Welcome to Gap Best reads for September 2024. I'm David Fox, one of the hosts
0:43.3	Slate for the book out-test. Millions of people across the United
0:51.7	States are close observers of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the
0:55.0	MCU, which are interconnected stories of super heroic and super villainous
1:00.3	characters who are flung across the galaxy and if there's a new movie in
1:05.6	the MCU it sets hearts of flutter and opens pocketbooks. I would argue that there's a
1:11.4	certain smaller but equally passionate set of fans and for those
1:15.2	fans there's the ESU with the Elizabeth Strout universe interconnected stories
1:19.3	of extremely ordinary and not really villainous regular humans whose adventures such as they are
1:27.0	are flung across a couple places in Maine, occasional side trips to New York City or Illinois.
1:33.1	For fans of the Elizabeth Strout universe,
1:35.1	another book by Elizabeth Strout is
1:37.5	cause for an immediate visit to a local independent bookstore
1:41.0	and extreme curiosity.
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