Hey everyone, David Kern here. Just wanted to let you know about our friends over at Belmont Abbey College who would like to invite all current high school students to attend its summer program, Scola.

Students will spend a week on their beautiful North Carolina campus just outside of Charlotte,

engaging in great book seminars with other young men and women from around the country.

He gets a chance to go whitewater rafting, hiking, and visit, of course,

the city of Charlotte in addition to all the academic things that are going on. More importantly

than all that stuff, though, students will have the opportunity to build lasting friendships

and have the time for reflection and prayer. We've experienced leisure in the best sense this

summer at Belmont Abbey College's Scola program. For more, visit belmontabbycollege.edu slash scola.

That's Belmontabbycollege.

dot edu slash S-C-H-O-L-A.

All right, and with that, here is today's episode.

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

I'm David Kern and I am joined by Heidi White and Tim McIntosh.

Hi to Tim, welcome to the show. How's it going?

Thanks, David. Very well.

Good, good.

So we are here to discuss the ending, the last third or so of J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye.

There is much to talk about. There were many questions online. And of course, next week we will

answer more questions, which brings me to the spiel that I need to give before we get into

the conversation. Because if you want to participate in that conversation or you want to ask

a question, then the best way to do that is to join our Facebook discussion group. So if you head

over to Facebook and you type in Close Reads in that search bar, you can click that join button and

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