Death Comes for the Archbishop: Book 1

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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The whole gang is back together and it's time for a new book! Join David, Heidi, and Tim as they dig into Willa Cather's 1927 novel ,Death Comes for the Archbishop. In this episode they compare a few early passages, discuss the undulating rhythms of Cather's prose, and consider the episodic nature of the story.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm David Kern.
0:03.5	I'm Heidi White.
0:04.5	And I'm Tim McIntosh.
0:05.9	And you are listening to Close Reads, a podcast for the Incurable Reader.
0:10.5	We're here to discuss Willa Cather's 1927 novel, Death Comes for the Archbishop.
0:16.5	It's the first book we're diving into here in 2020.
0:20.2	Of course, it was...
0:21.2	2021.
0:22.6	I do not want to relive that.
0:24.8	It was...
0:25.6	Yeah, because 2021 is just starting out so great.
0:27.4	It's already starting out so special.
0:28.6	Right, right.
0:30.1	So 2020, this book was on that list.
0:34.4	So we are getting to it in 2021.
0:37.3	But I was just about to say that it was a 2020 book on
0:39.8	our list and my brain then failed to make the proper connections and leaps in a way that
0:45.1	was, you know, made any sense. But we are, of course, here to discuss this book. We have a limited
0:51.0	amount of time here on this opening episode. What we're going to do is we're going to talk about book one, which is in my edition, the vintage book books like this to those of you, the two of you who can see me.
1:01.2	It's about 50 pages.
1:03.2	Next episode, we'll do books two and three.
1:05.7	And then we'll go on roughly a two book pace until the end.
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