The Martian Book Club

The digital magazine Slate has chosen Andy Weir's The Martian as the selection for their next audio book club. Listen along below:



If you enjoy the Audio Book Club format, check out some of the podcast's previous choices: Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee, Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, and All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr.

Nobel Prize in Literature Goes to Canada's Alice Munro

The Swedish Academy has named short-story master Alice Munro this year's recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. You can learn more at NPR.org or on the New York Times site. Listen to one of Munro's stories, "Axis," read and discussed on the New Yorker Fiction podcast. We have her short-story collections Dear Life and Runaway in the library--come check them out!