Hello and welcome back to Close Reads here on the Circe Institute Podcast Network,

soon to be the Close Reeds Podcast Network coming up here in a few weeks.

I'm here. I'm David Kern. I'm here with Tim McIntosh. Are you the OG of Close Reads?

One of the OGs of Close Reads, Tim?

Oh, yeah, I am one of the OGs.

Yeah, thank you.

And we are joined this week by an OG himself,

perhaps not an OG of Close Reads,

but an OG himself, Adam Andrews from the Center for Let.

Adam, thank you for joining us this week.

It's my pleasure. What's an OG? Oh, it's a slang term. It means original gangster.

Ah, very good. Original gangster. So Adam must be Adam's a new gangster. NG.

I'll take it. It's in a different hood.

So we are here to talk about Shirley Jackson's The Lottery. Have I'll take it. You're just in a different hood. Right.

So we are here to talk about Shirley Jackson's The Lottery.

Have, are you both like before this show, were you familiar with this story?

Adam, were you?

Very.

Okay. Yeah, we were talking about that before we went on, uh, how it's, um, something of a staple, I think, of American high school English class

reading lists, isn't it? I think so, yeah. And if not, I mean, at least college. Yeah,

extremely anthologized. So, you know, most people will have probably read it and maybe had some very poor teaching of it.

So maybe we can remedy that.

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