Everything Sad Is Untrue: Through page 231

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This section of Daniel Nayeri’s novel included a lot of . . . well . . . poop. So on this week’s episode David, Heidi, and Sean discuss how Nayeri manages to make that topic funny and sad and profound all at once. Plus: the book’s great respect for the narrator’s mother. As always, happy listening!

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm David Kern.
0:03.9	I'm Heidi White.
0:05.3	I'm Sean Johnson.
0:06.4	And you are listening to Close Reads, a podcast, or the Incurable Reader, on which we are discussing Dagan Larry's novel.
0:13.2	Everything Sad is untrue.
0:14.5	We are discussing specifically the, well, the middle section, roughlyly pages 115 through like 2.30 range.
0:23.1	I know people listening or not who have been listening to it on the audiobook.
0:26.5	That's not very helpful for you.
0:29.0	You know, there's no chapter break, so it's hard to break it up exactly.
0:32.1	It's the poop section.
0:34.5	Yeah, that's right.
0:35.2	We're going to talk about the booth section.
0:38.1	So right now, I am in Denver, Colorado.
0:41.6	Heidi is in Denver, Colorado for the Circe Institute conference.
0:45.0	We're in our hotel rooms at separate hotels across Denver.
0:49.6	And then downtown Denver.
0:51.1	And then Sean is at home in Slariva.
0:55.0	I'm dealing with it. Yeah, that's fine. Yeah. I've got my wife.
0:58.2	The Florida man. We miss you. We miss Sean.
1:04.1	And but, but in about three weeks time, we shame you for not being here.
1:09.3	That's right. Yeah. shame it because you love.
1:11.6	In about three weeks time, we have our Close Reads on the Road event in Atlanta.
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