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Hello, I'm David Kern.

I'm Heidi White.

And I'm Tim McIntosh.

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

going to be discussing as I lay dying.

William Falkers. 1930 Southern Gothic No. curable reader on which we are going to be discussing as they lay dying.

William Falker's.

1930 Southern Gothic novel, one of the books for which he was given the Nobel Prize in the literature, a very famous book.

And we're going to get into all kinds of talk on this book.

And I think in this first episode, we're probably going to do some, what's the deal with Faulkner, P-O-V-type conversation. We're

going to try to help organize the characters in our minds, get a sense of what the plot is,

kind of do that overview stuff to give ourselves some context for a book that can be a little bit difficult.

First, though, hey, Tim, how's that wedding planning going? We just need to, every week, I think we need

to do a quick check-in on how your wedding planning is until you get married in May or whenever it ends up

being. It's going well. It's actually really fun. We haven't gotten into like the real, like, nitty-gritty details part yet.

So it's just we're kind of making big decisions like where and who the photographer is going to be and what color suit I'm going to wear and things like that.

What color of suit are you going to wear?

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