Ep 527 - Trust Exercise, by Susan Choi
Overdue
Headgum
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
This award-winning novel by a real writer's writer has elicited a broad range of responses, with some folks praising the prose and structure and others bouncing off its characters and style. But maybe that range of reactions was inevitable given the way Trust Exercise explores the slipperiness of memory and narrative.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a headgun podcast. |
| 0:06.2 | While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told |
| 0:10.5 | tale, they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary. |
| 0:16.3 | Plus, these are books you should have read by now. |
| 0:27.4 | Andrew, do you trust me? |
| 0:44.8 | Yeah, this is another laden thing. |
| 0:48.4 | He wasn't, but now it is. |
| 0:52.8 | Okay. |
| 0:53.8 | I trust you to show me the world. |
| 0:58.5 | I'm glad that I feel like I've earned that trust. |
| 1:01.5 | The shining shimmering splendor of overdue, a podcast about the books you've been meaning |
| 1:05.5 | to read. |
| 1:06.5 | My name is Craig. |
| 1:07.5 | My name is Andrew. |
| 1:08.5 | And welcome to our book, Podcasts. |
| 1:10.3 | Like pre-preamble. |
| 1:12.3 | In before the welcome overdue. |
| 1:14.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:15.9 | It's weird to everything in our lives. |
| 1:19.8 | It's topsy to herbie. |
| 1:20.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:21.8 | Right now. |
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