The Optimist's Daughter: Parts 1 and 2

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to a new series of episodes on a new book! This week David, Heidi, and Sean are digging into Eudora Welty’s Pulitzer Prize winner, discussing such topics as the book’s similarities to Jane Austen’s work, whether Faye is purely an antagonist, the very Southern sense of humor in the story, and much more! Happy listening!

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0:00.0	Hey there, I'm David Kern.
0:04.0	I'm Heidi White.
0:05.5	And I'm Sean Johnson.
0:06.8	And you're listening to Close Reads, a podcast for the Incurable Reader on which we
0:11.7	are discussing Eudora Welty's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Optimist Daughter.
0:16.3	Mary Jo Tate is rejoicing somewhere in Tennessee.
0:19.1	And I'm rejoicing because I'm back.
0:21.4	I get to be back on the show with you guys.
0:23.3	This is so exciting.
0:24.9	The gang is back together again.
0:26.9	We needed this.
0:27.4	I'm no longer suffering from norovirus.
0:29.8	Welching all the rumors that you have been.
0:33.7	Dead.
0:34.2	There's a mysterious disappearance.
0:36.4	Oh, yeah.
0:36.9	You surped.
0:38.3	I don't know if that's the right word.
0:39.3	I've been reading David Grand's book, The Wager.
0:43.3	He's an incredible nonfiction writer and it's basically about this very famous shipwreck where these guys, there was a shipwreck and then like six months later 80 guys showed back up in Brazil or somewhere
0:56.7	and they became heroes but then six months later 10 more guys showed up and they were like they're not
1:02.6	heroes there was a mutiny and so it was this big controversy so it's it's an incredible book
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