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

I'm David Kern and I am joined for this new series of episodes on Jane Austen's book, Sense and Sensibility

by old friend Heidi White and our new friend Karen Swallow Pryor. Heidi and Karen, welcome back to the show.

Thanks, David. It's good to be here. Hello. Karen, you are, I shouldn't, I guess for you, in your case,

I shouldn't have said, welcome back to the show, but welcome to the show. It's a real honor to have you here to discuss this book. And when I came to you and said, would you be interested in doing this? It seems like it's up your alley, having read on reading well, you said, well, it just so happens that I have a project that I can't publicly talk about yet, but which is related to this book.

And then in the last, what, week to 10 days, that project, I guess, did become public.

So it seemed like the stars were aligning, so to speak, for you to come on.

So we are really excited to have you here.

And thanks for taking the time to spend some of your summer vacation with us. Oh, thank you for having me. Yeah, I'm going to use

your audience as guinea pigs to talk about sense and sensibility and see how the conversation

goes since I'll be writing about it soon. So it's a really, like you said, the stars really did

align. This is going to be great. So you's a really, like you said, the stars really did align. This is going to be

great. So you are a professor of English at Liberty. You have written three books now. Is that

correct? Yes. Yes. So books, the literature and the soul of me came out in 2012. And then Fears

Convictions, The Extraordinary Life of Hannah Moore, poet, reform, or abolitionist.

That's from 2014. And then last year, on Reading Well, Finding the Good Through Great Literature,

and that's a book that I know many of our listeners are quite familiar with. So what's this new

projects that you have going on, though? Yeah, so I will be writing introductions and discussion questions, all from a Christian worldview perspective in a series of six volumes to be published by B&H publishing, which is part of Lifeway, which is part of the Southern Baptist

Convention. It's complicated. And so just classics that I've selected that I think readers might

be eager to read or reread, but also might want to have kind of an introduction from someone that they can

trust. Hopefully they can trust me. And from a Christian perspective, and also, it's neat for me

because I get so many, you know, I have a social media platform and I teach, as you mentioned, but teach

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