Crossing to Safety, Chapters 5-6

Close Reads Podcast

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Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2018

⏱️ 83 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 kind of emotional responses this book elicits, what we mean when we say a book "feels well-crafted," the way Stegner plays with memory in the first person voice of the narrator, how much we should "believe" Larry's recollections, and much more.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Close Reads here on the Close Reads Podcast Network.
0:09.7	This is the flag the flagship show, I was going to say.
0:13.1	The flagship.
0:14.3	Yeah, I was saying, I got my words mixed up there.
0:17.2	But then it just, and then it ended up just sounding like how my mom says flag.
0:19.8	So, you know.
0:29.9	Canadian edition coming to you from Ontario. That's right. So I am David Kern. By now, if you ever listen before you know that, I am joined by two people you've already heard from, Angelina
0:34.2	Stanford and Heidi White. Angelina, Heidi, thank you for joining me.
0:38.8	You're welcome, David.
0:40.0	Thank you for having us to join you.
0:41.8	Yeah, exactly.
0:44.6	We're here to talk about chapters five and six of part one of Wallace Stegner's Crossing
0:50.2	to Safety.
0:51.2	So what do you say we do that?
0:53.1	Great.
0:53.8	Super idea. This sounds like a great
0:56.0	plan. I'm in. All right. Sounds good. Quickly, just want to let everyone know we have the feed
1:01.9	up for our Shakespeare show that plays the thing. The first episode on King Lear will be up
1:08.0	today or tomorrow. Well, you'll be listening to this on Friday.
1:11.0	So it'll be up by the time you listen to this, I believe.
1:13.4	So go hunt that down.
1:15.0	Look for the feed in iTunes or Stitcher or wherever you get podcasts.
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