Ep 130 - All The King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren

Overdue

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

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2015

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Robert Penn Warren's 1947 Pulitzer Prize winning novel All the King's Men has been called "uneven as a corduroy road," "sloppy," and "one of American literature's definitive political novels." That all seems accurate when you consider that it's a 600-page melange of detective work, City Hall intrigue, and philosophizing about the fallibility of man.

Join us this week for a discussion of headgums and selling out, movie-burping, New Criticism, meat axes, Huey Long, and the bummer that is American politics.

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0:00.0	This is a headgun podcast.
0:06.0	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told
0:10.3	tale, they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:16.5	Plus these are books you should have read by now.
0:30.0	Welcome to Overdo.
0:41.8	This is a podcast about the books that you've been meaning to read.
0:44.5	My name is Craig.
0:45.5	My name is Andrew.
0:46.8	And what was that thing that you just heard?
0:49.2	Or that our listeners just heard Andrew?
0:51.0	At the beginning of the audio file that you downloaded to your phone or computer, you
0:57.0	mean?
0:58.0	Yeah.
0:59.0	I don't know what.
1:02.1	Hopefully our listeners didn't turn off the episode because they were so confused.
1:05.2	I mean, our logo was still there on their mobile device or while you were using.
1:11.4	There's a very small window of time.
1:13.4	Like if you listen for five seconds but not for six seconds, you might have been very
1:18.1	confused.
1:19.1	So Craig, I have a question for you.
1:22.7	Okay.
1:23.7	What's a headgun?
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