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Close Reads Podcast

Peace Like a River: Chapters 12-16

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4823 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

And so the odyssey into Leif Enger's Peace Like a River continues. In this episode, the crew chats about magical realism as a genre, Roxana as Beatrice figure, the Land family's descent into the underworld, and much, much more.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome back to Close Reeds here on the Close Reeds Podcast Network.

0:05.5

I am David Kern and I am joined by two people who obviously know the difference between a nightgown and a night shirt.

0:11.0

Tim McIntosh and Heidi White.

0:13.2

Heidi, Tim, welcome back to the show.

0:15.8

Thank you, David.

0:16.3

Like you practiced that or knew it was coming or something.

0:20.6

Those are two different things.

0:25.0

That's why I said or.

0:27.3

It did occur to me, but I didn't practice it.

0:30.3

Unlike sweet show, swag, which I practice the whole time, just all day, everywhere I drive.

0:36.5

Speaking of which, I want to remind everybody

0:39.2

about some of the business side of things

0:41.9

before we dive into the conversation on Peace Like a River.

0:44.5

Don't forget that you can join the conversation

0:46.0

by following us on social media, on Twitter, and on Instagram.

0:49.5

We are at Close Reeds Pots and on Facebook.

0:51.6

You can find us in the Close Reeds Podcast discussion group

0:53.9

where you can join the conversation. Lots of good chatter going on about this book already over there.

0:59.7

And then, of course, make sure that you sign up for the Close Reads Newsletter, which you can

1:04.3

sign up for at closereads.substack.com should have one of those going out this week.

1:09.8

And then also you can of course support the show

1:13.2

and get some sweet show swag and also some bonus content on Patreon by going to patreon.com

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