An 1860's Book Draft
Close Reads Podcast
Goldberry Studios
4.4 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2024
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
What’s your favorite book from the 1860s? Something by Tolstoy or Dostoevsky? Dickens or Alcott? This week on Close Reads we’re drafting books from this very important decade in several categories—and you’ll get the final say on whose “roster” of titles is best. So click play and get ready to vote (poll coming soon). Happy listening!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm David Kern. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm Heidi White. |
| 0:05.4 | And I'm Sean Johnson. |
| 0:06.9 | And you are listening to Close Read the podcast for the Incurable Reader on which we are discussing books from the 1860s. |
| 0:15.1 | Let me rephrase that. |
| 0:16.6 | We are drafting books from the 1860s. |
| 0:19.7 | This is the official Close Reads 1860s book draft before we get into it. |
| 0:24.1 | Before we match wits and compete for the official votes of our listeners, how's it going, Heidi? |
| 0:33.1 | How are you? |
| 0:33.8 | I'm doing so great. |
| 0:35.0 | The weather's great. |
| 0:36.6 | Everything's great. |
| 0:38.5 | Great. So great. How are you feeling about the 1860s in literature? I thought it was more |
| 0:45.0 | prolific than it is. I was surprised. Yeah, we'll talk about that throughout and also here in a second, |
| 0:50.9 | but yeah, yeah. Apparently the Russians, that's who had it going on in the 1860s. |
| 0:56.7 | What were the Americans doing, fighting a war? |
| 0:59.4 | Must have been busy. |
| 1:00.9 | They were, couldn't have their slaves writing their books for them anymore. |
| 1:04.7 | Oh, wow. |
| 1:05.7 | They're going to have their experiences that were going to lead to the post-war revolution in American literature. |
| 1:12.6 | There is a notable, a very notable early book by maybe the most important American writer ever |
| 1:20.0 | during the 1860s. We'll talk about that in a little bit. |
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