Hey, I'm David Kern.

I'm Heidi White.

And I'm Sean Johnson.

And you were listening to Close Reads, a podcast for the Incurable Reader,

on which we are discussing and drafting books from the 1920s.

It's a very special Close Reads episode.

We are taking a little break.

No promises. A little break from the traditional format of this show. We will begin our conversation on things fall apart,

part one next week. But first, we've been circling a 1920s draft for many moons.

And I think we're going to periodically do these where we drop in an episode where we draft books from a particular decade in history.

We've got, you know, a few decades in the 1800s that'll be got.

And basically, we have 300 years of decades to choose from

because there's at least some books that were drafted that are worth that were written during

almost every decade that are worth drafting it gets there's more and more novels of course in the

20th century than then than the 19th century and the 18th century but we wanted to start with

the 1920s because it's one of the classic decades

for culture, but also it was a big turning point in literature. So there's lots of very

fun books to discuss in this decade. So we are about to draft books from 1920s. We're about

to compile squads, teams of books, and then we're going to put it

out there for those of you in the listening audience to vote and tell us who compiled the most

interesting or best team. You choose how you want to vote, but first, Heidi, how are you feeling

about this? I'm really nervous.

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