{"podcast":{"title":"Slow Read: The Stand","slug":"slow-read-the-stand-7562947","podcast_index_feed_id":7562947,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/6050791.rss","website_url":"https://slowread.substack.com/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/6050791/502bdafbc5172979c9221bd963c4a52d.jpg","author":"Sarah Stewart Holland & Laura Tremaine","episode_count":24,"summary":"Sarah Stewart Holland & Laura Tremaine slow read Stephen King's classic The Stand.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-22T18:19:15.430218+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/slow-read-the-stand-7562947"},"episode":{"title":"Your official invitation to the next Slow Read","slug":"your-official-invitation-to-the-next-slow-read","published_at":"2026-06-22T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/slow-read-the-stand-7562947/your-official-invitation-to-the-next-slow-read","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/slow-read-the-stand-7562947","url":"https://slowread.substack.com/p/our-next-slow-read-will-be","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/201795047/e0f3c1159a0c5ff76e6232bfac5952b4.mp3","summary":"We finished The Stand. Six months in Boulder, and we made it out alive — well, most of us did. And now we get to tell you what we’ve been dying to announce: our next Slow Read is Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander . Here’s the part you need to hear first, because it changes things. Unlike The Stand , which we gave away free to everyone, the entire Outlander read this fall lives behind the paywall. Every main episode breaking down the chapters, every book club meeting, every unhinged side quest — members only. If you want to take this journey with us, now’s the time to join. The Stand episodes, we had to edit ourselves — pull whole sections, watch what we said, because the internet is the internet. Outlander has one of the most intense, passionate fandoms out there (they call Diana herself , like a deity — we’ll get into it). Behind the paywall, it’s just us and you. No torching on Twitter, no walking on eggshells. Our true feelings, full unhinged selves, the way a book club is supposed to be. A few reasons we are genuinely thrilled about this one: It’s Outlander. It’s been everywhere for a decade, the TV show just wrapped, and it sits right in the cultural water — but it’s also double-intimidating: a 50-million-copy series with nine books, novellas, graphic novels, a whole universe. Reading the first one together means you finally get to be conversant in this giant piece of pop culture, without committing to all 10,000 pages alone. Diana herself is a delight. Marine biology and zoology degrees, a PhD, a side hustle writing Scrooge McDuck comics, and she wrote Outlander on a lark as practice — never thinking anyone would read it. “Science and art are two sides of the same coin,” she says. “What they both rest on is the ability to draw patterns out of chaos.” We fell a little in…","meta_description":"We finished The Stand. Six months in Boulder, and we made it out alive — well, most of us did. And now we get to tell you what we’ve been dying to announc…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1900,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/slow-read-the-stand-7562947/episodes/your-official-invitation-to-the-next-slow-read/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/slow-read-the-stand-7562947/your-official-invitation-to-the-next-slow-read.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}