An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2018

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Join David Kern, Tim McIntosh, and very special guest Jonathan Rogers (author of The Wilderking Trilogy and The Terrible Speed of Mercy: A Spiritual Biography of Flannery O'Connor, among other books), for a deep-dive into Ambrose Bierce's famous short story, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge." Discussion touches on whether Bierce's "gotcha" moment is a flaw in the story, the idea of the unreliable narrator, Bierce's wild biography, where his skill most shows up in the story, and more.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Close Reeds here on the SIRC Institute Podcast Network.
0:09.4	I am David Kern and I am joined this week by the old familiar Tim McIntosh and our new partner here on Close Street with Jonathan Rogers.
0:18.9	Tim and Jonathan, how's it going?
0:21.9	It's going pretty well.
0:28.2	It's going, David. Welcome to the podcast, Jonathan. Thank you. I'm so glad to be here.
0:35.9	So last week we had Heidi and Jonathan on together. And this week we have, Tim, we have you back for the first time in a little while with Jonathan. This is your first time on the show with Jonathan.
0:38.7	So I'm curious, are there any, is there anything you need to say to him?
0:41.1	Like, any warnings you need to offer to him about how you like the podcast to be done or any
0:45.5	like temperament.
0:46.1	You're like, you're an actor.
0:47.7	You're like probably temperamental actor stuff you need to get across, right?
0:51.8	Yeah.
0:56.9	Man, I wish I had something really clever to say.
1:01.5	Like, I started to make a joke about having peeled grapes in the green room, but it doesn't really work on an internet format.
1:05.7	We can feel your own grapes.
1:07.5	Yeah, I've got to feel my own grapes.
1:08.8	Yeah, what's with that?
1:10.9	We do have your bag of grapefruit.
1:15.1	It's fresh picked this morning on its way, and we have the, we know you only drink Fiji
1:19.8	water.
1:20.2	So we've got, that'll be right outside for, you know, right outside the room when we're done
1:24.4	here.
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