{"podcast":{"title":"Mean Book Club","slug":"mean-book-club-71816","podcast_index_feed_id":71816,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/3199521/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.patreon.com/meanbookclub","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/2a72209ab2f0a013139d98cdc4bef96d.jpg","author":"Mean Book Club","episode_count":195,"summary":"Mean Book Club the Podcast: Four ladies (UCB-NY, BuzzFeed, College Humor, Impractical Jokers) read, discuss & make fun of NYT bestselling books with little literary merit. It's fun. It's cathartic. It's perfect for your commute? New podcast every Tuesday! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mean-book-club--3199521/support .","last_synced_at":"2026-06-10T00:19:06.089812+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mean-book-club-71816"},"episode":{"title":"\"The Corrections\" by Jonathan Franzen","slug":"the-corrections-by-jonathan-franzen","published_at":"2025-08-19T11:00:08+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mean-book-club-71816/the-corrections-by-jonathan-franzen","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mean-book-club-71816","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-corrections-by-jonathan-franzen--67428334","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/67428334/mbc_s20_e1_corrections_spreaker.mp3","summary":"Was it profound or was it pretentious? Is the author a genius or a misogynist? The only thing we know for sure is that a man made love to a couch. Mean Book Club returns for our 20th season with \"The Corrections\" by Jonathan Franzen. Big thanks to patron of the mean arts, George for generously forcing this behemoth onto us! Mean Book Club is four ladies (UCB, BuzzFeed, College Humor, Impractical Jokers) who read, discuss and whine about NYT bestselling books that have questionable literary merit. It's fun. It's cathartic. It's perfect for your commute. New podcast (almost) every Tuesday! Here’s the Season 20 reading list: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld We Were Liars by E. Lockhart The Plot Against America by Philip Roth Who Moved My Cheese by Spencer Jonson Beautiful Ugly byAlice Feeneyy Where is Joe Merchant by Jimmy Buffet Skipping Christmas by John Grishham Send any future book suggestions to meanbookclub@gmail.com! Follow us on the socials @meanbookclub! Rate, like, subscribe, and check out our Patreon page at patreon.com/meanbookclub to become a true patron of the mean arts. CREDITS: Hosted by Sarah Burton, Clara Morris, Johnna Scrabis, & Sabrina B. Jordan. This episode was produced and edited by Sarah Burton and Blake Opper. Special thanks to FSM Team for our theme song, \"Parkour Introvert.\" You can get it here: https://www.free-stock-music.com Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mean-book-club--3199521/support .","meta_description":"Was it profound or was it pretentious? Is the author a genius or a misogynist? The only thing we know for sure is that a man made love to a couch. Mean Bo…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":6085,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/mean-book-club-71816/episodes/the-corrections-by-jonathan-franzen/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mean-book-club-71816/the-corrections-by-jonathan-franzen.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}