Bonus Episode: Leif Enger in Conversation
Close Reads Podcast
Goldberry Studios
4.4 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2020
⏱️ 67 minutes
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It's a surprise bonus episode with the one-and-only Leif Enger! David chatted with him recently about the inspiration for Peace Like a River, his early days as a writer, the choices he makes as a writer, his process, his love of western novels and movies, and much, much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, David Kern here. Just wanted to let you know about our friends over at Belmont Abbey College |
| 0:05.0 | who would like to invite all current high school students to attend its summer program, Scola. |
| 0:09.8 | Students will spend a week on their beautiful North Carolina campus just outside of Charlotte, |
| 0:14.0 | engaging in great book seminars with other young men and women from around the country. |
| 0:17.9 | He gets a chance to go whitewater rafting, hiking, and visit, of course, |
| 0:24.5 | the city of Charlotte in addition to all the academic things that are going on. More importantly than all that stuff, though, students will have the opportunity to build lasting friendships |
| 0:28.7 | and have the time for reflection and prayer. We've experienced leisure in the best sense this |
| 0:33.4 | summer at Belmont Abbey College's Scola program. For more, visit belmontabbycollege.edu slash scola. |
| 0:41.3 | That's belmontabbycollege. |
| 0:43.8 | dot edu slash S-C-H-O-L-A. |
| 0:49.6 | All right, and with that, here is today's episode. |
| 0:53.6 | Hello, everyone. |
| 0:54.5 | Welcome back to Close Reads here on the Close Reads Podcast Network. |
| 0:57.4 | I'm David Kern. |
| 0:58.7 | Today we have a very special bonus episode for you. |
| 1:02.4 | Recently, as you know, we finished a conversation, a series of episodes on Leifanger's popular novel, Peace Like a River. |
| 1:11.2 | Along the way, we posted a couple of notifications or reminders on our Instagram page at Close Reads Pots that we were doing this. |
| 1:19.5 | And Leifengar somehow got wind of that and said, hey, do you mind if I follow along? |
| 1:24.7 | So I thought, well, maybe we can get them on the show. |
| 1:28.7 | So send him a message through Facebook because it's 2020. And luckily, uh, Mr. Enger got back in touch with me and we |
| 1:35.2 | were able to set up the conversation that you are about to hear. If you are new to close |
| 1:39.0 | reads, then what we do is we spend a handful of episodes discussing really good books, uh, really deeply, hence the title of the podcast. And we did that with Peace Like a River and it was a great time. So if you have read the book and would love to hear some in-depth conversation about it, or I suppose if you haven't read the book and are going to be reading it or want to to, you know, digital book club of sorts to follow along, then please feel free to do so. |
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