Ep 102 - Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston

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Craig Getting, Arts, Books, Podcasts, Literature, Comedy, Andrew Cunningham

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🗓️ 2 March 2015

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Zora Neale Hurston's 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God is one of the most widely-read books in American literature. It's so entrenched in the modern canon that it's hard to believe Hurston fell into obscurity later in her career.

But thanks to writer Alice Walker, Hurston's work was revived in the 1970s, and with good reason. Their Eyes is a fascinating portrait of a black woman's life at the dawn of the 20th century.

Also discussed this week: spectacular entrances, the bees and the trees, and plans for dying authors.

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0:00.0	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told tale,
0:05.1	they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:10.4	Plus, these are books you should have read by now.
0:30.3	Let me try this one on you.
0:35.9	I have a joke. I have a funny,
0:38.9	observational joke.
0:41.7	How come there's all-purpose flour?
0:46.0	But there's also bread flour and cake flour?
0:50.4	But shouldn't that all-purpose flour be good for all purposes?
0:54.1	It seems like we can barely use all-purpose flour for anything.
0:57.6	We need to buy this super specialized, like, bleached wheat flour or something.
1:05.2	Did you ever notice? Did you ever notice about flour?
1:10.7	Welcome to Overdoost. This is a podcast about the books that you've been meeting to read.
1:15.4	My name is Craig. My name is Andrew. I'm still working the kinks out of that one.
1:19.4	Trying new material on the road. So I think it's probably like you could make
1:25.3	whatever you wanted with that flour, but it might not be as good as the cake.
1:31.5	The Jack of All trades master of non-flower.
1:34.2	Yeah. That's too long.
1:35.9	It's too long.
1:36.6	They were building it as Jack of All trades master of non-flower and they ran out of space
1:42.7	on the back. So they called it all-purpose flour.
1:47.8	That's skillful branding.
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