Frankenstein: Letter I - Chapter II

Close Reads Podcast

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4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2020

⏱️ 84 minutes

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And we are on to a new book! Join David, Heidi, and very special guests Karen Swallow Prior, author of On Reading Well, and Joshua Gibbs, host of Proverbial, for a discussion about Mary Shelley's legendary novel, Frankenstein. In this episode they chat about the story behind the book, Shelley's wild and sad life, the differences in the editions, some preliminary themes, and 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
0:04.5	guests, Karen Swallow Pryor and Joshua Gibbs, who are joining Heidi White and I for our discussion of
0:08.9	Frankenstein. I wanted to remind you about how you can join the conversation. Head over to Facebook,
0:13.2	search for Close Reads in that search bar, and you can join the conversation over on the Close Reeds
0:16.7	Podcast discussion group. And over on Instagram, you can follow us at Closereads Podcasts. We also have
0:21.5	our newsletter, which is closereads.substack.com. And we have bonus episodes and some sweet show swag over
0:27.4	at Patreon.com slash close reads, where we are currently discussing crime and punishment a little bit at a
0:33.7	time. The Close Reeds audience is the greatest audience in the podcast world, and we're
0:38.5	thankful you've taken the time to be a part of it. So thanks for that. Thanks for listening. And
0:42.7	with that, here is today's episode. Hello and welcome to Close Reads here on the Close Reads
0:49.5	Podcast Network. I'm David Kern, and I am joined by some friends of mine, Heidi White, who you know
0:55.5	regularly from here on the show, Josh Gibbs, who you know from his writing over at the
1:00.3	Sursi Institute website, and then also perhaps from his books like How to Be Unlucky and something
1:04.4	they will not forget, and from his podcast proverbial. And then our friend Karen Swallow
1:09.1	Prior, who is someone who I'm guessing,
1:12.1	if you've listened to this podcast, that you probably have read one of her books, maybe all of
1:16.0	them, but she is the author of two annotated editions most recently of Sense and Sensibility
1:23.6	and Heart of Darkness. Those are through B&H, right, Karen? Correct. And then she's also working on
1:29.6	annotated editions of Frankenstein and Jane Eyre. And of course, that brings us to the book that
1:35.9	we're discussing on this podcast. We are here to discuss Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Before we do that,
1:40.3	though, I need to welcome Josh, Karen, and Heidi to the show. So welcome to close reads. Thank you for being here. Thanks, David. It's great to be here with you guys.
1:49.7	Karen and Heidi did sense and sensibility with us last summer. So if you were a long-time
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