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Overdue

Ep 127 - Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton

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

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2015

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

One of Edith Wharton's few stories set outside the realm of the American upper class, Ethan Frome is a story about a Massachusetts farmer trying to live out his heart-dreams.

Join us for a discussion of his totally-not-okay heart dreams, Andrew's cat Newman, ghosts, makeup, Seinfeld, and pickle dishes.

(That list makes it sound like we didn't talk about the book, but we totally did. We promise.)

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcript

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0:00.0

While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told tale,

0:05.2

they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.

0:10.8

Plus, these are books you should have read by now.

0:30.0

I feel like these are all like this is our this is the opening of Seinfeld Acceptance our podcast.

0:44.6

I saw the opening of season nine where they both had mustaches.

0:50.8

That actually I like that.

0:55.2

What would be the podcast equivalent of us starting a show with mustaches?

1:01.1

I think we just have mustaches and talk about them.

1:04.8

Which we are doing right now.

1:06.6

Yeah, well I mean the thing when I the thing I was thinking about when I brought up the Seinfeld

1:10.7

thing is the other day Suzanne was talking about putting on her makeup and she referred to it as

1:15.7

putting on her face. Is this an idiom that you're familiar with?

1:19.3

I'm familiar with my mom has said that many a time.

1:22.7

I don't like it that much because it implies that that is her face and everything else is just

1:30.1

skin parts. Yeah. Welcome to overdue. This is a podcast about the books that you've been

1:34.5

meaning to read. My name is Craig. My name is Andrew. Now it would be different if she was actually

1:39.9

putting on her face and like if she actually put it on a face like in the Nick Cage film face off.

1:46.5

Yeah, if she was like pulling if she was like Eleanor Rigby like pulling her face out of the

1:52.2

jar by the door. You know that that's what he's talking about right? Yeah Eleanor Rigby is not a

1:57.8

woman in a church with a bunch of jar faces. No, she has a skeleton she's just a skeleton face.

2:04.0

That's not true. Has like these slabs of skin. Look at all those zombie people. They are wearing

2:11.2

other people's faces. That's not like how it goes. I've not seen the credits of the movie face

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