Frankenstein: Chapters III-VII

Close Reads Podcast

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Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2020

⏱️ 79 minutes

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David and Heidi are back with very special guests Karen Swallow Prior and Joshua Gibbs with more discussion of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.They discuss the degree to which we ought to be consumed by the unreliable narrator as readers, whether Victor Frankenstein is a scoundrel, some differences between the 1831 and 1818 editions, Victor's unnatural interest in science, and much more.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, David Kern here. Welcome to Close Reeds. Before we get into the show today with our special
0:04.7	guests, Karen Swallow Pryor and Joshua Gibbs, who are joining Heidi White and I for our discussion of
0:09.0	Frankenstein. I wanted to remind you about how you can join the conversation. Head over to
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0:20.9	We also have our newsletter, which is close reads.substack.com.
0:24.4	And we have bonus episodes and some sweet show swag over at patreon.com slash close
0:30.2	reads, where we are currently discussing crime and punishment a little bit at a time.
0:34.7	The Close Reeds audience is the greatest audience in the podcast world,
0:38.0	and we're thankful you've taken the time to be a part of it. So thanks for that. Thanks for
0:42.1	listening. And with that, here is today's episode. Welcome back to Close Reads here on the
0:48.5	Close Reads podcast network. I'm David Kern, and I am joined by Karen Swallow Pryor, Joshua Gibbs,
0:53.6	and Heidi White. Welcome back to the show,
0:55.7	y'all. Karen, how's it going? I'll just go through the list so you don't all have to answer at the
0:58.5	same time. It's going great. I feel like I'm in the middle of a normal summer right now, as such as it is.
1:05.6	It's getting hot and sultry and just a lot of reading and swimming. So it's good. Are you still,
1:11.7	I see all your Instagram posts of your jogging routes. Are you still jogging in this heat or do you
1:17.7	take that inside? Yeah. No, I do as long as I can get it in early enough. So yeah, today that
1:24.6	didn't work out. Josh, what about you? What are you up to right now?
1:28.6	Just working on my next book, which is probably just a couple of weeks away from being done.
1:33.5	Those are big weeks right there?
1:36.3	Do you feel, are you stressed about it?
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