O Pioneers!: To the End

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

This week, Sean describes how he wasn’t prepared for the ending of this book and we discuss the precision of the writing in some of the key scenes. Plus: Is it more tragic or comic (in the literary sense), what does the book have to say about justice, and much more. Happy listening!

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm David Kern.
0:04.1	I'm Heidi White.
0:05.6	And I'm Sean Johnson.
0:07.0	And you are listening to Close Reads, the podcast for the Incurable Reader on which we are discussing Willa Cather's, O Pioneers.
0:15.6	Sean, right before we came on to report.
0:17.4	I thought I had Cather.
0:18.9	Well, you did.
0:19.9	You had Catter. Catter. Catter was one of the options. Cater. Yeah. I'm not doing that. I had Cather. Well, you did. You had Catter.
0:22.3	Catter. Catter. Cater.
0:22.7	Yeah.
0:22.9	I'm not doing that.
0:24.1	Willa Cater's.
0:25.5	I'll take it.
0:25.6	I'll take one for the caters.
0:27.0	The point is, is Willis,
0:28.7	novel, O Pioneers.
0:29.9	We were discussing the whole book.
0:31.7	We've read all of it now.
0:33.5	And, uh, you know, Sean, right before we started recording, said, guys, I was not prepared for this ending.
0:39.6	And I said, and then David was like, pull on.
0:41.4	We got to record.
0:42.4	We got to save it for the show.
	...

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