Bonus Episode: Hemingway's "A Clean Well-lighted Room"

Close Reads Podcast

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4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2019

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Unfortunately we had a scheduling snafu with recording for this week, so we are sharing a bonus episode that we sent to our Patrons a few months back. It's a conversation between David, Tim, and Heidi about Hemingway's famous story, "A Clean Well-lighted Place." Conversation touched on the difficulty with Hemingway and his particular craftsmanship in this short story.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Close Reeds here on the Close Reads Podcast Network. I'm David Kern.
0:05.1	So I need to apologize because we had a bit of a scheduling snafu with getting everybody to be
0:11.8	able to be together and just a lot of things going on for all the different people involved
0:15.0	in Close Reeds this week. So whereas we were normally going to, or originally rather,
0:19.8	going to begin reading The Rector of Justin,
0:22.9	we were going to do the first five chapters. We've got to punt that to next week. That means that we
0:28.7	are going to have to kind of have an interstitial episode here. So I apologize for the inconvenience of
0:33.4	that. Hopefully you'll look at it like it just gives you a little extra time to get ahead on your
0:37.3	reading. But what I'm going to do this week is we wanted to run an episode that we recorded
0:41.3	for our Patreon supporters a few months ago. It's an episode where Heidi and Tim and I discussed
0:46.6	Ernest Hemingway's A Clean Well Lighted Place. Honestly, it's one of our favorite episodes we ever did.
0:51.8	The three of us all agreed on that, that it was just one of the conversations that we enjoyed the most. A lot of people have a hard time with Hemingway.
0:58.0	A lot of people have a hard time with this story. And so we dove into some of the reasons why
1:01.7	that's the case. And it's a great story. So we were able to dive into the nuances and the
1:07.7	craftsmanship of this story, as well as talking about Hemingway more generally.
1:13.1	For those of you who are supporters of the show, you know, if you want to re-listen, we will
1:17.7	certainly accept that. Thank you so much for supporting the show. For those of you who are
1:22.5	not, this is kind of a little bit of a bonus episode for you. It's a taste of what you get
1:26.5	over on the subscribers episodes. Later on this month, we have another short story conversation coming.
1:32.5	And in the months since we recorded this, we also recorded a conversation about an
1:35.9	Agatha Christie short story, a Nathaniel Hawthorne short story. So there's lots of good content
1:40.9	over there. And I guess just consider this, our apology for not being able to get you what was originally planned this week.
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