Hello, I'm David Kern.

I'm Heidi White. I'm Tim McIntosh. You're not Heidi White. I'm not Heidi White. I'm not

Heidi. How you've changed. It's just him and I today. Heidi is on a trip.

And although she often is able to join us while she travels this week she couldn't

so tim and i are holding down the fort we're going to be discussing uh the chapters nine and ten of part

two of 1984 um so i i i have a theory i don't think this episode is going to go as long uh because

it's just the two of us but then also because of of the section itself, I think we'll have to hold some things back

until we finish the book next week and then dig in.

So we'll talk about what we can for this week.

And then I think next week, it'll be a free-for-all for the three.

A three-for-all.

Yeah.

A three- all. Yeah. A three for all. And then do the Q&A episode after that.

And then we're going to do an episode on A Raisin in the Sun, the Lorraine Hansberry.

It's Lorraine Hansberry, right?

The play?

Yes, that's right.

And then after that, we're going to dig in.

Tim's going to go off on his vacation from Close Reeds while he prepares to get married and all that. We're going to do

test the Derbivilles with Karen Swallow Prior as our very special guests. So we'll have a schedule

for that posted here in the next couple weeks. Before we dig in, don't forget about Substack. Close

Reads HQ. It's closewreeds.substack.com. We've got bonus content there, written content,

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