O Pioneers!: Part 1

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to a new series on another great novel, Willa Cather’s O Pioneers!. This week we’re discussing Cather’s instinctive yet precise writing, the book’s contemplation of imagination and vocation, the relationship between the characterization and the land, and much more. Plus we discuss our 2025 literary bracket. Happy listening!

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm David Kern.
0:03.9	I'm Heidi White.
0:05.3	And I'm Sean Johnson.
0:06.6	And you are listening to Close Reeds, a podcast for the Incurable Reader on which we are discussing Willa Cathers, O Pioneers.
0:15.3	And we're discussing part one.
0:17.1	But the real thing, the real thing that's happening right now is that all three of us are on
0:21.4	the show again together. We had a couple episodes where we couldn't get it scheduled. And that's the
0:26.3	most important thing. Actually, know, the book's the most important thing. The gang is back together.
0:30.8	The trio. It means a lot. The triumvirate. Yes. Well, those always end badly. Yeah, I was going to say that's a little, maybe that's the wrong, the wrong word.
0:38.9	I was just reading the life of Crossus today.
0:42.7	It's true.
0:43.9	Didn't go well for him.
0:45.2	The life of who?
0:47.0	Crossus, the third guy in Caesar and Pompey's Triumvir.
0:50.4	Well, but that was because he was in a triangle.
0:51.7	Yeah, everybody forgot about him.
0:53.1	Well, I know.
0:53.7	Yeah, that was because he was in a triumvirate with those guys. Yeah, we everybody forgot about him. Well, I know. Yeah. That was the worst.
0:55.0	That was the worst choice.
0:56.0	It was just, it's not the, it's not the, it's not the
0:58.0	triumvert, it's getting in a triumvert with those guys.
1:01.0	You gotta choose the right triumvirate.
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