The Bridge of San Luis Rey: Parts 1-3

Close Reads Podcast

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Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the first episode of 2025 here on Close Reads! Our first book of the year is a short but powerful contemplation of , well, the meaning of life and death. Great way to kick off a new year . . .

Topics of conversation include whether this is an unbearably sad book, the complex (mirrored) relationships at the core of the story, the nesting doll structure of the narrative, the echoes of Jesus’ teaching that show up, and much more. Happy listening!

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm David Kern.
0:03.9	I'm Heidi White.
0:05.2	And I'm Sean Johnson.
0:06.7	And you are listening to Close Reads, a podcast for the Incurable Reader, on which we are discussing Thornton Wilders, 1927 novel, The Bridge of San Luis Ray.
0:16.4	And we're going to talk about the first three parts.
0:18.3	This will be a three episode series.
0:19.7	We'll talk about the first three parts this episode.
0:22.5	Then we'll do the last two parts.
0:24.1	And then we'll do our Q&A.
0:25.3	But this is the first episode of 2025, which is crazy to say.
0:29.9	I barely made it a correct statement there.
0:33.5	That's wild.
0:34.6	I know.
0:35.1	I almost said the first episode of 2024.
0:39.3	Right. The last second, my brain reminded me that would be incorrect. So how's it going? How's your, how's your new year kicking
0:43.9	off? Today we're recording on January 3rd. This episode will be dropping on January 6th. Anything
0:47.8	anything special happened in the first few days of the year? How do you go first? Anything?
0:52.2	Me? Oh, we've just had quite a holiday season.
0:56.4	Probably many of you.
0:57.6	Listeners know that my daughter was hospitalized, and we haven't really been sure what's
1:03.3	wrong with her.
1:04.6	So this year's like the year of Lucy's health.
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