Episode 225: Karen Swallow Prior
That Sounds Fun with Annie F. Downs
Annie F. Downs
4.9 • 10.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Get ready for your English and British Literature heart to grow three sizes bigger. Dr. Karen Swallow Prior is a theologian and an author and professor. Her latest works are like literature classes alongside classics (the best of both worlds)-
I'm cracking open Sense and Sensibility first thing this holiday weekend! Hope you're getting some reading done too!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi friends happy Memorial Day welcome to another episode of that sounds fun I'm your host Annie F |
| 0:09.3 | Downs coming at you live from the that sounds fun podcast studio. I hope you are doing something |
| 0:14.0 | beautifully outside and warm and celebrating this holiday of Memorial Day. The music in the |
| 0:21.5 | background is from our good buddy Mr. Torren Wells make sure you grab a copy of his album |
| 0:25.8 | citizen of heaven. Y'all I am so excited about today's episode when we start talking about summer |
| 0:33.3 | I want to talk about what we should be reading now y'all know that we have lists and you can go to |
| 0:38.8 | Annie F Downs.com slash blog and you'll be able to see the different lists of books from our |
| 0:44.6 | podcast guest in 2019 our podcast guest so far in 2020 and the books for the mini BFF book club |
| 0:51.2 | that happens every Monday night at 6 p.m. on Instagram live. I love talking about books and my guest |
| 0:57.9 | today professor Karen swallow prior is one of my favorite people to talk books with she actually |
| 1:04.7 | is working with bnh publishers to re-release some absolute classics and include some of her own |
| 1:11.4 | thoughts and intro and some discussion questions it is amazing y'all gonna hear us talk about but |
| 1:16.5 | so far the ones available since insensibility and heart of darkness to classics that we should |
| 1:22.5 | all be reading this summer but make sure you get Karen's version which we will link to because |
| 1:27.6 | it's like taking a English literature class in the book you're holding it's just the coolest so |
| 1:34.9 | here is my conversation all about writing and reading and Jane Austen and faith and when God |
| 1:42.2 | shows up in unexpected places with Karen swallow prior. |
| 1:51.3 | Hey Karen thank you for joining us today thank you so much for having me oh my gosh it feels |
| 1:56.4 | like such an honor i'm such a big fan of your work i'm gonna try really hard to be like cool about |
| 2:00.9 | it but if i get not cool about it i'm really sorry well likewise i mean you know we can both just |
| 2:06.8 | be not cool together okay okay good here's what i would love to start if you're okay with it we're |
| 2:11.6 | recording this about a week and a half before the show comes out and the one of the main news stories |
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