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Close Reads Podcast

Laurus: Pages 3-53

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4823 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

It’s time to launch our voyage into a new book. Over the next six weeks or so we’ll be traversing with Arseny across medieval Russia, contemplating all the while matters of history, faith, mysticism, wonder, beauty, tragedy, sin, repentance, guilt, love, and much more. Here on this first episode, David, Heidi, and Tim explain why they love this book so much, discuss what makes Vodolazkin such a gifted writer, contemplate the way the book approaches bodies and physicality, and offer some tips for reading the rest of the book. Happy listening!

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody, David here. I'm with Heidi. And before this week's episode, we wanted to tell you about something that Heidi is involved with. And it is the Atrium program over at the Circe Institute. Those of you who have been longtime listeners, you know about Searcy. They used to be the producers of this show. We used to work for them. And well, Heidi's still involved and she's involved with the Atrium program where

0:21.0

you can explore the foundations of classical education with a dynamic online community. It's a one-year

0:25.9

program. It explores the foundations of Christian classical education with online classes and discussions

0:30.2

and you can choose one or multiple courses if you want. And the four courses that they have coming

0:34.9

up in this next school year are as follows,

0:39.4

our very own Heidi White on Shakespeare.

0:40.1

What?

0:42.4

Norms and Nobility with Tonya Rizel.

0:46.1

We've got Plato's dialogues with our old friend, Dr. Matthew Bianco.

0:49.1

And then our friend Kristen Rudd is doing the Divine Comedy.

0:50.6

So some great books.

0:54.3

Again, that's Shakespeare, Norms and Nobility, Plato's Dialogues, and the Divine Comedy. And this is all through the Sursi Institute's Atrium Program. These are live

0:59.2

webinars. There's a couple times each month. There's an online forum. And, yeah, Heidi, you're

1:04.0

doing one of them. You're doing it on Shakespeare. Why do you particularly, like, what do you

1:08.0

enjoy about doing the Atrium with your class?

1:11.3

The atrium is so fun.

1:12.7

I teach high schoolers at a hybrid school twice a week, and I love that.

1:17.9

That is the best.

1:19.6

But there's something really special about dialoguing with adults who are, you know,

1:25.4

a lot of them are teachers themselves or homeschooling or, you know,

1:30.5

working in schools and in education and or just enthusiasts, like literary enthusiasts, like our

1:35.6

listeners over here at Close Reads. And so to be able to talk about the great books over an

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