A Mailbag Episode

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

We’re in between books so we answered as many of your questions as we could—which is to say, this is one of those wide-ranging episodes on a variety of topics. Snack foods, book organization, novels we wish we wrote, protecting the canon, Lewis or Tolkien, and much more. Hope you enjoy! Until next time, happy reading.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm David Kern.
0:04.1	I'm Heidi White.
0:05.4	And I'm Sean Johnson.
0:06.8	And you were listening to Close Reads, a podcast for the Incurable Reader, on which we are answering your questions about all kinds of things.
0:16.2	It is an Ask Us Anything, a mailbag episode.
0:18.9	We're in between books right now.
0:20.5	And so we thought, let's just open it up, see what people are curious about.
0:25.7	You know, it's interesting because this is a, we're about to have the 10th anniversary of this show in June.
0:30.2	10 years of close reads.
0:31.8	10 years of close reading in this community.
0:34.0	And so we'll kind of market as one of our 10th anniversary celebrations that we're doing this year.
0:39.0	It's just a big old mailbag.
0:40.4	And we got a bunch of questions.
0:41.9	But first, my question to each of you is, how's it going?
0:46.8	Heidi, how are you?
0:47.8	It's going great.
0:48.8	Really great.
0:49.7	I haven't even looked at these questions, so I don't know what to expect.
0:54.2	But these are some of the best episodes.
0:57.4	Yeah, they're fun ones.
0:58.4	Sean.
0:59.9	I'm also doing great.
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