Hello and welcome to Close Reads, the Q&A episode for Walker Percy's 1961 National Book Award winner, The Moviegoer.

I am Tim McIntosh.

And I am Heidi White.

And dear listener, we are so glad that you joined us for this question and answer episode.

Heidi, can I point out a few things about this week's or this book's questions?

A couple of changes, I think, in our normal Q&A.

Demographic?

Maybe the demographic, yeah.

So two changes that I noticed, more men commenting on this book and asking questions about

this book.

I noticed that too, yeah.

Yeah.

And I'm going to say the questions are a little bit more prolix than in previous

occasion.

I don't know what that means.

What does that mean?

They're just, the questions are kind of, they're a little bit long.

It's not, it's not a, it just people, like, I think because the book is full of such subtleties, the questions kind of

mirrored the subtleties of the book.

So maybe I'm just imagining it, but it seemed like a lot of these questions, the

questions are going to take up, just to get the questions on the table is going to take

a little time.

...