Audio Book Club: Karen Russell’s Swamplandia!

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Audio Book Club: Karen Russell’s Swamplandia!

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In this week’s Audio Book Club, Slate’s Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and Hanna Rosin discuss Karen Russell’s Swamplandia!, a new novel about the struggle of a family who runs an alligator-wrestling theme park.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Mar 27, 2011

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