4.4 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2018
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Welcome back to Close Reads! This week David, Angelina, and special guest Adam Andrews (of Center for Lit) chat about chapters 4 and 5 of F. Scott Fitzgerlad's novel, The Great Gatsby. Topics of conversation include several minutes on the first sentence of chapter 4, the question of the "debauchery" in the story, Gatsby as a hero, the book's place in the canon, and much more.
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to Close Reeds here on the Close Reeds Podcast Network. I'm David Kern, |
0:06.7 | and I am joined by Angelina Stanford and our very special guest, Adam Andrews. Welcome back to the show, |
0:12.9 | both of you. Thanks. That was, unscripted, unscripted. How's it going? Angelina, I'll ask you first so that we don't answer, you know, |
0:23.6 | I mean, unless you guys want to try to just, you know, |
0:25.7 | the whole way through the show, |
0:27.2 | speak the exact same time and we'll see. |
0:29.2 | We are going to prove that great minds do, in fact, think alike. |
0:32.5 | That might be hard to sustain. |
0:35.9 | I'll email you exactly what I'm going to say. |
0:37.9 | Hang tight. |
0:38.4 | There you go. |
0:39.0 | We're just scripted. |
0:40.7 | Angelina, how's it going? |
0:41.9 | It's going great. |
0:42.6 | I was just telling Adam before we hit record that I'm so excited for like our twice a |
0:47.2 | year snow that we get because this is like introvert vacation, right? |
0:50.7 | Like I've got a little early this year. |
0:52.0 | I've got so much tea and a stack of books. Like, I'm just like, yes, force me mother nature to not have to leave my house for three days. This is awesome. |
1:00.0 | You mean give you permission to just do what you normally do. Yes, and not feel guilty about it. Right. I got it. Okay. Got it. Yes. That, that does make sense. Adam, what about you? How's the weather in Washington? Well, we were just talking about it. |
1:11.9 | It's normally by this time of year, first week in December, we've got six or eight inches |
1:15.5 | of snow down in northeast Washington State, and it stays down for the rest of the winter, |
1:19.3 | but we have yet to see our first flake, which I was just telling Angelina is odd because |
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