Hello, I'm David Kern.

I'm Heidi White.

And I'm Tim McIntosh.

And you're listening to Close Reads, a podcast for the Incurable Reader on which we are

going to be answering your questions about Ernest Gaines is a gathering of old men.

We've come to the end.

We've discussed the ending.

All has been revealed.

And now it's time to answer your questions. You posted those

questions on Facebook, and you emailed them. If you would like to do that in the future, don't forget,

so you can join us over on that lively conversation that we have on Facebook. Facebook is in many

ways a problem, but the Close Reads community that is on Facebook is not. So thanks to everyone who

participates in that. There's like, I don't know, 4,000, 4,500 people on there commenting. And if

you're Brandon LeBlanc, you're picking nits and so forth. Brandon, who has been appearing

with us on the Patreon episodes.

So, yeah, we appreciate the conversation.

You can also email us.

If you want to email a question or comment,

you can always do that at David at coldberrybooks.com.

As I said, we are going to be answering your questions on today's episode.

Before we do that, though, Tim, tell us what's going on in the plays the thing.

So people can, you know, we do this at the end a lot.

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