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Close Reads Podcast

Crossing to Safety, Chapters 11-13

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4823 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2018

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Join David, Heidi, and Angelina, as they continue their conversation about Stegner's modern classic, Crossing to Safety. Topics include the strange mystery of reading, the similarities between Charity and Larry, Stegner's playful approach to subverting archetypes, and much more.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome back to Close Reeds here on the Close Reeds Podcast Network.

0:09.6

I'm David Kern, and I am joined by Angelina Stanford and Heidi White.

0:14.0

Angelina, Heidi, welcome back to the show.

0:15.8

How are you?

0:17.2

I'm doing great.

0:18.9

We're great.

0:20.4

We're definitely not laughing at everything we just talked about that we didn't hear.

0:24.0

Previously, yeah, exactly.

0:26.0

Whenever we have a really good pregame talk,

0:28.6

I always feel like I'm starting the show kind of, you know, awkwardly.

0:32.5

Like, he-he-he-he-ha-ha-ha.

0:36.6

You guys wish you heard that.

0:38.3

Could you do that again?

0:39.3

Yeah, he he he he

0:41.3

somewhere between like a flirtatious squirrel and an awkward four-year-old.

0:49.3

Which that's actually pretty much what Jeremiah is now that I think about it.

0:54.7

So we are here to talk about crossing the safety chapters 11 through 13.

0:59.3

We are concluding part one.

1:02.7

Before we do that, though, quick reminder,

1:05.6

we have another show on this Close Reads podcast network.

1:08.0

In fact, we have two other shows.

1:09.8

We are currently working our way through King Lear over on the Plays of Thing.

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