Hi, this is Megyn O'Rourke. Welcome to Slate's Audio Book Club. I am Slate's culture critic and a contributor to the magazine, and I'm here today with Katie Roy Fee, a professor at NYU, and Troy Patterson, Slate's TV critic, to talk about John Updeg's

Rabbit Run. Welcome, Troy and Katie.

Hi.

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