Ep 635 - Jazz, by Toni Morrison

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

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Toni Morrison’s second novel in her beloved Beloved trilogy, Jazz introduces the reader to a trio of characters united by an incident of tragic romance. Will the freewheeling optimism of the Jazz Age set them on the path of redemption or will they be bound to their painful pasts?

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0:00.0	This is a headgum podcast.
0:04.0	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well told tale,
0:11.0	they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:15.6	Plus these are books you should have read by now. Oh, uh, uh,
0:24.0	uh, uh, Hey everybody welcome to Overdo it's a podcast about the books you've been
0:46.2	meaning to read my name is Craig my name is Andrew this is our book
0:49.7	podcast who every week one of us reads a book that we've never read before tells the other person about it.
0:55.3	This month, February of 2024, has been dedicated to all manner of follow-ups sequels three-quels
1:05.4	squeequels no prequels all the rest we haven't done any prequels no not this month anyway
1:11.4	no maybe next time.
1:13.0	Yeah.
1:14.0	But yeah, so we are revisiting authors and cinematic universes that That we visited before this week.
1:24.0	Craig, what did you read?
1:26.0	I read Jazz by Tony Morrison.
1:29.0	Tony Morrison, I think this author's going to go a long way.
1:32.0	Tony Morrison, we of course covered Tony Morrison's beloved in episode 158
1:38.2	and Paradise in episode 402.
1:41.2	Those are books one and three in like a loose trilogy of like
1:45.2	vibes-based. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I guess I'm what I'm curious about is if you remember why we did the first one and then the third one and skip the second one except for like a very
1:58.3	Vague sense I've gotten as I've read about this book that it's like slightly
2:04.8	Maybe like tougher or like harder to pin down than the other two I don't know well the first one beloved is a novel I
2:11.3	had ever heard of and like fits of the classic bill of our podcast which is pretty well known book by well known author what you know award award-winning, yada, yada,
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