Sing, Unburied, Sing: Chapters 1-3

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Jesmyn Ward’s 2017 novel, Sing, Unburied, Sing, has quickly emerged as one of the most highly regarded books of our young century, so on this episode we dig into what makes it so interesting. Plus we discuss why it’s a fruitful double feature alongside To Kill a Mockingbird. As always, happy reading!

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0:00.0	Hey there, I'm David Kern.
0:04.1	I'm Heidi White.
0:05.6	And I'm Sean Johnson.
0:07.1	And you are listening to Close Reads, a podcast for the Incurable Reader on which we are discussing Jesmond Ward's Sing on Buried Sing.
0:15.6	That's right.
0:16.4	We are back with a new book, new conversations, new themes, although themes that are in keeping with
0:23.9	books we have been recently reading.
0:25.3	I was thinking that the whole time.
0:27.3	This is the road novel year.
0:29.6	Yeah, it's the road novel.
0:31.1	It's youth and innocence and experience.
0:34.5	It's southern struggles a Southern struggles.
0:38.6	I really, really wanted to do this after
0:41.2	to kill a mockingbird.
0:43.0	And I want to talk about
0:45.2	how they
0:47.5	work together. I think there's a lot of
0:50.5	thematic overlap, certainly.
0:53.7	Although, normally they are very different.
0:57.5	We'll get into that here in a second.
0:59.1	We are going to be talking about chapters 1 through 3, and we will talk about 1 through 3 this week,
1:06.8	then next episode we'll talk about 4 through 7, then 8 through 11, then to the end.
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