Death Comes for the Archbishop: Books 6 + 7
Close Reads Podcast
Goldberry Studios
4.4 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2021
⏱️ 81 minutes
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In which an old woman prays in a church with the Bishop, vanity is tested, and we learn about the prequel years.
Join David, Heidi, and Tim as they march on with Willa Cather.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm David Kern. And I'm Tim McIntosh. Ah, for God, so sorry. It's my fault. |
| 0:08.5 | I'm David Kern. I'm Heidi White. I'm Tim McIntosh. And I'm third. And it's okay. It's okay. |
| 0:16.8 | We can mix it up if we need to. No, no, no, no, I'm third. I like being third. |
| 0:21.3 | You are listening to Close Reeds, a podcast for the Incurable Reader from Goldberry Studios, |
| 0:26.0 | and we are here to discuss Willa Cathers, Willa Cather's, Willa Cather's, Willa Cather's, Willa Cather, |
| 0:30.8 | her novel from 1927, Death Comes for the archbishop. We're going to discuss parts seven and eight, which are called |
| 0:38.7 | Donia Isabella. No, six and seven. Part six and seven, Donia Isabella and the great diocese. |
| 0:46.3 | We're going to discuss both of those. And before we kind of dive into some of the passages on those |
| 0:52.4 | sections, I wanted to go back to a question |
| 0:54.7 | that I asked you guys in the second episode, so two episodes ago, that I think we should come |
| 1:00.2 | back to because I would love to know if your answers have changed over these, over the reading |
| 1:05.8 | the next four sections. There's two questions that I have that are sort of big picture questions |
| 1:10.3 | of the book, and then we can dive into some of the passages that we love that are intriguing to us, you know, whatever, whatever word we want to use. |
| 1:18.1 | Here's the first question. In the second episode, I asked you guys what you think holds these episodes together. |
| 1:26.1 | Like, you know, are there threads, themes, whatever, that make |
| 1:29.7 | this episodic book that bring them together, that tie them together, that hold it, hold it |
| 1:34.9 | into a sort of unified whole? And I would love to know if having now read seven parts of this |
| 1:42.1 | book, so an additional four parts, if the answers to that |
| 1:45.8 | question have changed. I feel like that's one of those things worth coming back to, just briefly, |
| 1:51.4 | to see, you know, how our perspective on that has changed. Tim, do you have any thoughts on that? |
| 1:56.1 | What you think, you know, if you take the sections that we have been reading and then you add them to the |
| 2:01.5 | sections that we read earlier when we first were discussing that, have the threads coming more |
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