A Gentleman in Moscow: To the end of Part 1

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Now that we’ve come to the end of book one of Amor Towles’ very popular novel, its time to reset and consider what key questions and themes this book is asking us to contemplate. What does this book have to say about modern man? Is it perhaps darker than our initial response would indicate? Why does Towles pepper the book with so many literary references? The and other questions are the subject of this week’s show!

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm David Kern.
0:03.8	I'm Heidi White.
0:05.3	And I'm Ian Andrews.
0:06.8	This is Close Reads, a podcast for the In Curable Reader, which we are discussing Amortals,
0:12.1	A Gentleman in Moscow, and we are going to read pages, well, we're not going to read.
0:15.9	We're going to discuss the reading.
0:17.4	We just did, roughly pages 54 through 105, so to the end of book one of a gentleman in Moscow.
0:24.2	I got an email that I want to use an entryway into this week's conversation.
0:29.5	But first, how the heck are you?
0:31.3	Ian, how are you?
0:32.6	Doing great.
0:33.8	It's bright and early here in Washington State.
0:35.7	Yeah, it is.
0:36.2	It's...
0:36.2	I was out of half and half this morning.
0:39.6	Is that why you had to be five minutes late?
0:41.6	No,
0:42.2	it's,
0:42.7	I,
0:42.9	I had,
0:44.2	uh,
0:45.1	heavy whipping cream.
	...

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