Desiree's Baby

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2018

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Join David Kern, Angelina Stanford, and Heidi White, for an exploration of Kate Chopin's short story, Desiree's Baby. Topics include the story's fairy tale nature, the way it touches on matters of race and gender, its structural genius, and much, much, much more.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Close Reeds here on the Circe Institute Podcast Network. I'm David Kern,
0:10.0	and I am joined by Angelina Sanford and Howdy White? Angelina is back. How is going, Angelina? Welcome back.
0:16.8	You had a vacation from the show, a respite. I don't know.
0:21.2	I did.
0:22.5	It was very strange.
0:26.1	But I got a bunch of work done on the book.
0:27.1	Nice. You were traveling a little bit.
0:29.6	I did do some traveling.
0:31.6	Yep.
0:32.5	So you're back.
0:34.3	You're here to talk about Kate Chopin's, Desirey's baby.
0:38.0	Oh, you're hurting me already, David. You're not going to hit that in hard. Not today. You're not.
0:42.9	How do you say it? We're going to talk about it. Actually, I looked it up.
0:49.8	Oh. I'm looking right here in the Norton anthology, okay, plus I'm French.
0:54.6	I know, I'm going to say, we're going to believe Angelina on everything on pronunciation
0:58.7	in this story.
1:00.2	This is her, this is her town.
1:01.8	This is where she's from.
1:03.3	Yeah, I know.
1:03.8	So I want to talk about that in a minute.
1:04.7	Okay, so how do you, what's going on with you first, though?
1:07.2	Oh, oh, you know, just reading stories.
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