Ep 243 - March, by Geraldine Brooks

Overdue

Headgum

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

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2017

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Andrew's out of the country so Craig's wife Laura joins the show to talk about Geraldine Brooks' Pulitzer Prize-winning novel March.

March imagines the "offstage" of Mr. March, the largely absent father figure of Louisa May Alcott's classic Little Women. What happens to an idealistic pacifist when confronted with the horrors of the Civil War? Where exactly did school recess come from? And who knew that Alcott's father ran a failed vegan compound in 19th-century Massachusetts?

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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	Hey everybody welcome to Overdo.
0:44.5	This is a podcast about the books that you've been meaning to read.
0:47.6	My name is Craig.
0:49.2	And my name is Laura.
0:50.9	Not Andrew.
0:51.9	Not Andrew.
0:52.9	Why are you named Laura?
0:54.5	Not Andrew.
0:55.5	Well because my parents liked the name.
0:58.0	That's an acceptable reason.
1:00.2	If I was going to be a boy I was going to be Douglas.
1:02.2	Oh.
1:03.2	So I wouldn't have been Andrew anyway.
1:05.0	No.
1:06.0	Okay Douglas you've been on the show.
1:08.7	No.
1:09.7	No.
1:10.7	No.
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