Hello, I'm David Kern.

I'm Heidi White.

As you are listening to Close Reads, a podcast for The Incurable Reader, and we're here

with a very special guest who practically wrote the book on Jane Eyre, which is the book

we're going to talk about.

Nice.

We were with Karen Swallow Pryor, our old friend who's been on the podcast a time or two with

us.

Karen, we're so glad to have you back.

Thank you for being here. Oh, it's great to be back together with you guys. It's been almost a year,

I think, and what a year, right? Wow. Oh, my goodness. Right. So,

no kidding. So last year you joined us for Frankenstein. Right. You were working on the

edition that came out alongside this

Jane Air edition, which has been out for two weeks now. I think March... Yeah, two weeks. Wow. Yeah.

You were working on that. You were making notes while we were talking. Did it end up being helpful?

It absolutely ended up being helpful. It was really good to be able to do that, to have that fresh in my mind as I was working on it. And I guess I had already done Jane. I don't even remember it. It's all a blur. But yeah, now we're talking about Jane Air after the fact. So hopefully as a result of this podcast, I won't have any regrets or won't have any like, oh, I should have said that or I got that wrong.

Need a second edition.

Yeah, exactly.

So the previous year, we did Sense and Sensibility.

So you now have six of these additions out.

Let's see if I, you have, no, four, six?

I have four out and I'll be working for summer.

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