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NPR The Best of Pop Culture Happy Hour Audiobook, by Glen Weldon Play Audiobook Sample

NPR The Best of Pop Culture Happy Hour Audiobook

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Read By: Narrator Info Added Soon Publisher: Highbridge Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 1.67 hours at 1.5x Speed 1.25 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: August 2015 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781622318704

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

10

Longest Chapter Length:

20:17 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

11:45 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

14:55 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

4

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Publisher Description

An energetic, fun-filled round table from NPR exploring the many ways entertainment intersects with day-to-day life.

NPR's popular podcast features spirited roundtable discussions covering a wild and unpredictable landscape of pop culture subject matter, from the phenomenon of the fiasco (the result of ambition that exceeds competency) to “Pop Culture Carbon Dating” (why some cultural markers age well and others not at all). Hosts Linda Holmes, Stephen Thompson and Glen Weldon are joined by a parade of insightful commentators, each lending hilarious perspective and pop culture expertise to conversations that will deepen your appreciation for the modern cultural landscape—and leave you smiling. Featuring:

• Pop Culture Debuts with Ari Shapiro

• Public Radio Voices with Gene Demby and Tanya Ballard Brown

• Nudity with Maggie Thompson

• The Art of the Mixtape with Audie Cornish

• Outtakes and Bloopers with Guy Raz

• Movie Trailers with Bob Mondello

• Profanity with Trey Graham

• Fiascos with Gene Demby

• Hollywood in the White House with Ari Shapiro

• Pop Culture Carbon Dating with Audie Cornish

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About the Authors

Glen Weldon has been a theater critic, a science writer, an oral historian, a writing teacher, a bookstore clerk, a movie usher, a PR flack, an inept marine biologist, and a slightly-better-than-ept competitive swimmer. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Republic, Slate, the Atlantic, the Village Voice, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and many other places. He is a panelist on NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour and reviews books and comic books for NPR.org. The author of Superman: The Unauthorized Biography and The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture, he lives in Washington, DC.

Linda Holmes is a novelist, a pop culture correspondent for NPR, and one of the hosts of the popular podcast Pop Culture Happy Hour, which has held sold-out live shows in New York, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere. She appears regularly on NPR radio shows including Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition. Before NPR, she wrote for New York magazine online and for TV Guide, as well as for the groundbreaking website Television Without Pity. Her first novel, Evvie Drake Starts Over, was a New York Times bestseller.