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Close Reads Podcast

#46: The Comforts of Home

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4823 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2017

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Close Reads, Angelina, Tim, and David continue their conversation on Flannery O'Connor's collection of stories, Everything That Rises Must Converge,  with "The Comforts of Home."

Topics include: the theatrical nature of O'Connor's work, this story vs. the others in this collection, whether the mother is right to take an interest in Sarah, common critical readings that emphasize sexual tension, the opening paragraphs, Thomas as pharisee, the absence of dark grace, and more. 

 



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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Close Rees on the Sersi Institute Podcasts Network. I am David Kern, and as always on Closuries, I am joined by

0:21.2

Angelina Stanford and Tim McIntosh. Angelina and Tim, how's it going?

0:26.4

It's going great. I just discovered the mute button. I'm excited.

0:30.8

So are we.

0:36.5

Hey, David, I want to begin with a compliment to Angelina.

0:43.3

One of my Gutenberg students who was preparing for her two years, who has been, how do I say this politely?

0:52.2

Her parents listen.

0:54.7

Hello, Greg and Kristen.

0:57.4

They are.

0:59.3

They're super fans.

1:00.7

They, um, their daughter, a sophomore at Gutenberg is preparing for her two years and she

1:06.6

is taken on a little bit of anxiety about preparing for her two years there that's the polite way of saying it

1:12.5

she just told me i'm at gutenberg she just told me i just saw her i passed her in the kitchen she said

1:18.3

i after talking to angelina feel so prepared for my two years it was awesome

1:26.6

so i don't know what you did, Angelina.

1:32.0

But this student is now, like the anxiety level has dropped. She is feeling ready to go for her

1:41.0

two-year oral exams over the entirety of Western history.

1:44.9

And apparently you accomplished that in one phone call.

1:47.6

In one phone call.

1:48.5

But you see, what she doesn't know is it's all going to come back to bite her,

1:51.7

like when she's sitting in the exam and she starts spewing out my stuff,

1:55.2

and they're like, what crazy?

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