A Canticle for Liebowitz: Chapters 9-15

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This section of Walter M. Miller’s novel spans two sections, so in this week’s episode we discussed the tightrope walk that is abandoning one now-beloved character in the middle of a book and asking readers to grasp onto a completely new set of characters. Plus: How to think about the time jumps, the differences between the protagonists we are given, and the many subtleties of this work. Happy listening!

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm David Kern.
0:05.2	And I'm Sean Johnson.
0:06.5	That's right. It's just the two of us. This is close reads. It's a podcast for the incurable reader.
0:11.1	And right now we are discussing Walter M. Miller Jr.'s post-apocalyptic fantasy novel,
0:18.6	a cancer call for Libowitz.
0:20.4	Heidi is not here.
0:22.1	She is, their family's been going through some illnesses, so she's been taking care of her family
0:27.1	and her work, and so we're giving her the week off.
0:30.4	So Sean and I are here holding down the fort.
0:33.4	I'm dealing with a bit of an upper respiratory thing.
0:36.4	The symptoms make it hard to enunciate sometimes.
0:39.6	It's weird.
0:40.3	I've discovered that.
0:41.6	That or I'm having a, my brain is fading into oblivion.
0:46.5	Sean, how are you?
0:47.8	You know, I think by comparison, I'm doing pretty well.
0:50.4	How are you doing by not, not by comparison?
0:54.1	I'm still doing pretty well. Okay, good doing not by comparison?
0:54.9	I'm still doing pretty well.
0:55.9	Okay, good, good.
0:57.7	I'm fine.
0:58.6	I'm fine.
	...

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