Once upon a time, we all learned that audiobooks were meant to be sold a certain way: as a monthly subscription, in a stand-alone app, from the only store in town. But it turns out we’ve been doing audiobooks all wrong.
Today, Slate is launching an audiobook store that shows there’s another way click here to start shopping now.
The store is powered by Slate’s Supporting Cast technology, and here are three reasons you’ll love it.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts
When you buy audiobooks from Slate, there’s no need to download a stand-alone app. You’ll listen in your preferred podcast app, the same place you spend hours listening to the Political Gabfest, Slow Burn, and Mom and Dad Are Fighting.
Dear Care and Feeding,
My husband has a very limited number of dishes he is willing to eat. It’s pretty much: burgers, mac and cheese, pizza, and chicken fingers. Basically the children’s menu of any chain family restaurant. He’s not a super taster (he eats olives on his pizza and drinks coffee), and he doesn’t have texture issues (he dips his fries in mayo and his pizza crusts in ranch like it’s going out of style). He’s just very limited in what he eats. These self-imposed limitations on his diet have caused so many problems for him. He doesn’t want to attend work events, weddings, or extended family celebrations because he doesn’t think there will be anything that he’ll want to eat. He doesn’t want to try any new restaurants and sticks to chains where he knows his “food groups” will be represented. I know it’s bad, and he knows it’s bad, but there’s no changing him so we just live with it.
Dear Care and Feeding,
I was very close to my aunt while growing up. She helped to home-school me when conventional school didn’t work out well, so I often stayed with her. I’m still somewhat close with her, but past occurrences now give me pause regarding her relationship with my children. Perhaps most troubling is that she coached me on toilet-papering houses. She was youngish but certainly an adult by then. Her plans were intricate; the two of us dressed head to toe in black, wore good running shoes that made little noise, spoke as few words as possible, carried dog repellant, and selected areas that gave us the best chance to go undetected or escape. We would usually ride by and observe the carnage the next day. Even if I sometimes remember this fondly, it was clearly irresponsible and somewhat dangerous.
Dear Care and Feeding,
My son is 14, and he’s coping with identity issues that I could really use some advice about. Last night, he was complaining about English class. “All we talk about is stuff like, I dunno. How women are so great and can defend themselves and shit.” Alarm bells, right? I probed a little, and he started getting upset. He talked about the girls in his class being aggressive towards the boys, accusing them of … he wasn’t sure what. Mumbled a few things about sexism, the patriarchy. “You know, this whole ‘kill all men’ thing.’” And with that, he burst into tears. “I’m white I’m male and I’m probably straight!” he sobbed (at 14, he maintains that the jury is still out on that last one). “It’s like, I can’t say anything! And the girls, they can say anything they like!” Of course, we talked about those girls being out of line, but also about how real sexism is that he can be proud of who he is and support feminism (and Black Lives
Dear Care and Feeding,
Last year, my ex-husband was involved in a highly publicized sexual harassment/assault case that made the national news. He disappeared from social media and locked down his web presence, but his name and face were still shown across the country for a few days. We have shared custody of our 16-year-old son, who lives primarily with his dad and comes to visit me all summer each year. My son was understandably devastated by the incident, but has become withdrawn and refused to talk to me about it. I pulled back as not to pry. It’s now been almost a year since I’ve seen my son in person, and have no idea how to have this conversation with him. My ex-husband was subsequently charged and pleaded guilty, so I know my son must have some feelings about this. I don’t want to put him in therapy, as I tried that when we first divorced; my son hated it and refused to talk to me for three months after his one (and only) appointment. This situation is generally heartb