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Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

413 - WMTBG? (The Liar, by Tobias Wolff)

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Society & Culture, Arts

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2020

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

This first episode of What Makes This Book Great (WMTBG) features "The Liar," one of my favorite short stories, by Tobias Wolff.

Music: "Home Again," by Michael Kiwanuka; "Lovely Day," by Bill Withers.

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0:00.0

Radio Mano, Papa Tchango.

0:02.3

0:26.9

Greetings Earthlings. As promised I'm coming to you with a little extra content

0:36.5

largely because I figure you're sitting around with nothing to do and I'm

0:40.7

sitting around with nothing to do. We all have lots of things to do but you know

0:44.6

what I mean. The energy is weird. So I thought why not get some, make some

0:53.2

progress on this idea I've had for podcasts called What Makes This Book. Great.

0:59.1

So essentially what's going to happen is I'm going to read you a story and then

1:04.4

I'm going to unpack it for you. At least unpack it the way it looks to me. Now I

1:11.5

don't want anyone to get confused. I'm not saying there's only one way to read

1:15.6

a story or there's only you know one set of insights that a piece of literature

1:21.7

can bring to you. This is just what I see and I'll be reading you some of my

1:27.0

favorite pieces of literature. I'm not going to read whole novels but I will

1:32.5

read short stories, I'll read poetry, I'll read excerpts from novels, even essays

1:39.9

whatever. Anything that just seems to me to be a great piece of writing. The

1:46.5

point is to bring that to you to show you something I love and then explain to

1:51.5

you why I love it. The whole idea is based on or sort of inspired by Rick

1:57.7

Biotto's YouTube channel What Makes This Song Great. If you haven't checked that

2:03.1

out, definitely check him out. He's fantastic at this. In fact I even have a

2:09.5

another project I'll probably be doing here in the next few days where I want

2:14.9

to explain why I love what Rick Biotto does so much and I think I'm going to

2:21.0

call that What Makes This Song Great. It's a little meta. Might be a little

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