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In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner wash their hands of Steven Soderbergh's new disease drama Contagion. Next, they discuss CNN anchorman and Vanderbilt progeny Anderson Cooper's new daytime TV show. Finally, Gabfesters lament the possibly impending demise of the United States Postal Service.
Here are some links to the things we discussed this week:
The official website of Contagion.
Forrest Wickman's Slate review of Contagion.
A Slate dialogue on the science of Contagion.
Tony-winning actress and Contagion star Jennifer Ehle.
Time's take on the very real threat of new pandemics.
The official website of Anderson Cooper's new daytime talk show Anderson.
Anderson Cooper's walk down memory lane at the Daily Mail.
The New York Times' analysis of Cooper's new daytime gambit.
LIFE.com's Cooper photo gallery "The Silver Fox."
Gawker's opinion about Anderson Cooper's public persona.
Salon's review of Anderson.
Annie Lowrey's assessment of the postal crisis in Slate.
Slate transport columnist Tom Vanderbilt's piece on the slowing of trains in America.
Frequent Gabfester June Thomas' 1998 ode to the USPS in Slate.
Business Week's case that the USPS needs to reinvent itself.
The Guardian's analysis of the privatization of the postal service in the Netherlands.
The Culture Gabfest weekly endorsements:
Dana's pick: Rimbaud's Illuminations in a new translation by John Ashbery.
Julia's pick: Tumblr page "Faces of the Last Season of Oprah" and New York City's East River Ferry.
Steve's picks: Ian Frazier's essay "Dearly Disconnected" and the key lime pie at Tortillaville in Hudson, N.Y.
Outro: PJ Harvey's "The Mess We're In"
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Stephen Metcalf is Slate's critic at large. He is working on a book about the 1980s. Dana Stevens is Slate's movie critic. E-mail her at or follow her on Twitter. Julia Turner is Slate's deputy editor. You can e-mail her at or follow her on Twitter at http://twitter.com/juliaturner.Illustration by Robert Neubecker.
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