Close Reads Live: A Special Tenth Anniversary Discussion of "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Ten years ago, on the first ever episode of Close Reads, we discussed “A Good Man Is Hard To Find,” the famous story by Flannery O’Connor. Last weekend, at our tenth anniversary party, we revisited it and we’re excited to share that discussion with you now. So whether you’ve been listening all along or whether it’s first time, thanks for tuning in and happy listening!

Thanks so much to everyone who has helped shape the show for so long, from co-hosts and guest hosts to listeners from all over the world—and, of course, Logan! We couldn’t do it without you. Cheers!

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm David Kern.
0:05.0	I'm Heidi White.
0:06.4	And hi, I'm Sean Johnson.
0:07.8	And you were listening to Close Reeds, a podcast for the Incurable Reader on which we are going to discuss Flannery O'Connor's classic short story.
0:17.8	A Good Man is hard to find.
0:20.1	This is a live recording. So if you're here, please let the people
0:23.9	who are not here know what it's like to be here. Thank you for that. We are concluding our
0:33.8	10th anniversary party event with this. We've celebrated the launch of Heidi's book,
0:40.4	The Divided Soul. It's out there. It's out there in the world. We have had some good food,
0:46.8	we just heard some good music. We've had great conversation, had a great time. And so if you're,
0:51.3	if you didn't have the chance to be here, you know, you got to come sometime. We missed you.
0:56.1	We are going to be discussing, as I said, a good man is hard to find, which was Flannier O'Connor's story from night.
1:01.8	What does it say?
1:03.2	1953.
1:04.1	I was going to say 52.
1:05.8	Well, you are way off.
1:07.7	Yeah.
1:07.9	And the reason we are doing this for this very special live recording is because on the very first episode of Close Reeds ever, way back in 2015, this is what we discussed. So we thought, this makes sense to revisit it again. It's a story that's been alluded to, referred to, quite a bit over the years.
1:29.3	And I think there was some discussion of it at that Atlanta event we did a couple years ago,
1:33.4	but not in a setting like this, exactly.
1:35.8	And we have done other O'Connor stories.
1:38.2	But, you know, why not go back to it again?
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