#62: Gilead Kick-off Show

Close Reads Podcast

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4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Close Reads, Angelina, Tim, and David kick off their discussion of Marilynne Robinson's beloved, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Gilead (2004). Topics include whether this is a sad book, a bit on Robinson's biography, John Ames's joy in the face of suffering, and more.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Close Reads here on the Circe Institute Podcast Network.
0:09.7	Close Reeds is a podcast for the Incurable Reader and all of us, right guys?
0:14.2	That was a new.
0:15.7	That was a new.
0:16.5	I know.
0:17.6	I was a little unnerving.
0:19.2	I don't know what to make of that.
0:20.9	I've been trying to figure out, is there a way we can work in a podcast for the Incurable Reader in the intro?
0:25.2	And then I completely forgot about it until the sentence, second I was saying that sentence.
0:28.8	So I just kind of added it a little amendment to my sentence.
0:32.0	That is like the running joke that we have in my family about when mom tells a story because I always say I honestly
0:38.6	start a sentence and I have no idea where it's going and when I get to the end I'm just as
0:43.4	surprised as everyone else where I ended up. Once upon a time early on in the time we were doing
0:49.3	podcasts here at Cursi like before podcasts were such a big thing. I would, I wasn't, we were, I was kind of feeling my way through it.
0:57.4	So I would like write out a script.
0:59.0	And then I would try to make it sound natural.
1:01.7	And then that got time consuming.
1:03.7	Welcome to close reads.
1:05.1	I am your host, David Kerrne.
1:08.5	Well, no, the making it natural thing I think I did okay on, but the time that it took to write
1:12.7	those things was just brutal.
1:15.5	Oh, I know.
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