#66: Gilead (ep. 5)

Close Reads Podcast

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Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2017

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Close Reads, Angelina, Tim, and David continue their discussion of Marilynne Robinson's beloved, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Gilead. Topics include how easy it is to focus on the wrong things when you read, the mystery of reading a book, the lack of a problem to be solved in this book, the Jack Boughton revelation, and much more. This episode covers pages 128-160.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Close Reads here on the SIRC Institute Podcast Network.
0:09.9	I am David Kern, and as always, I am joined by Angelina Stanford and Tim McIntosh.
0:15.0	Angelina and Tim, how's it going?
0:17.7	It's going.
0:19.4	It's going, David
0:21.3	Thank you for that
0:24.0	Tim.
0:24.3	I asked Tim to sing on the air
0:26.2	And so I just readily complied
0:28.9	You did, thank you for that
0:30.9	I forgot that we
0:32.2	I forgot this was the
0:33.3	episode where Tim sings
0:34.7	This is the episode where Tim sings Everything Please is the episode where Tim sings.
0:39.7	Please tell me there's jazz hands happening right now.
0:42.0	Oh, there's jazz hands.
0:43.5	Well, Tim does jazz hands just when he's talking, so.
0:46.3	True.
0:47.1	But now it's with music.
0:49.5	Hey, David, I want to hear how your trip to the coast was.
0:54.4	Oh, yes. So, I want to hear how your trip to the coast was. Oh, yes.
0:55.5	So I got back yesterday from a week in the Outer Banks.
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