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The Warden: Chapters 1-5
Welcome to conversations on a new book, which is in a genre we seem to turn to at least once a year: a novel about (or from the perspective) of a cle…
2 years, 4 months ago
Summer Lightning: Q&A Episode
It’s Q&A time! This week David, Heidi, and Sean discuss the end of Wodehouse’s Summer Lightning, then dig into some listener questions. Topics of con…
2 years, 5 months ago
Summer Lightning: Chapters 6-13
Welcome back to Wodehouse Wintertime here at Close Reads, where David, Heidi, and Sean are discussing Summer Lightning. And in this episode—after sha…
2 years, 5 months ago
Summer Lightning: Chapters 1-5
It’s Wodehouse season here at Close Reads! Kick off 2024 by joining David, Heidi, and Sean for a deep dive into the world of Blandings Castle—of scor…
2 years, 5 months ago
Things Fall Apart: Q&A Episode
In our final episode of 2023 David, Heidi, and Tim attempt to answer your questions about Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. Happy listening—and Happ…
2 years, 5 months ago
Close Reads at the Movies: "The Apartment"
Billy Wilder’s The Apartment is one of the great holiday movies, one of the great romantic comedies, and one of the great screenplays, so here at the…
2 years, 5 months ago
Recapping Our Favorite Reads of 2023
Our annual holiday tradition is back! Join us we share our respective top five favorite reading experiences of the year. Some of them are new books, …
2 years, 5 months ago
Things Fall Apart: Parts 2 and 3
As we come to the end of China Achebe’s novel, we’re discussing whether it ends in a satisfying fashion, contemplating the POV shift in the final cha…
2 years, 6 months ago
Things Fall Apart: Part 1
Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart is one of the most influential and important examples of world literature in the twentieth century, so we’re very e…
2 years, 6 months ago
A 1920s Book Draft
What’s your favorite book from the 1920s? There are certainly plenty to choose from. Maybe it’s a book by Fitzgerald or by Hemingway or even Cather? …
2 years, 6 months ago