The Road: Pages 1-92

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to our new (and long-awaited) series on Cormac McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic novel, The Road. All four of us are here for this one and here in the first episode conversation explores what it is like to read (or re-read) this book as a parent, McCarthy’s unique approach to world-building and language, why people should read this book even if it’s hard, and much more. Happy listening!

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm David Kern.
0:04.1	I'm Heidi White.
0:05.6	I'm Tim McIntosh.
0:07.2	And I'm Sean Johnson.
0:09.0	And you were listening to Close Rees, a podcast for the Incurable Reader on which we are reading
0:13.6	Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize winning Book the Road.
0:18.6	The book that we were referring to as the Book of Life just a minute ago. A book of life. A book of road. The book that we were referring to as the book of life just a minute ago.
0:22.2	A book of life. A book of life. Yeah, not the book of life. I don't think.
0:27.2	In which your name is written. Because you know what? There are no names. No names are written
0:32.6	in this book. No names are written in this book. Well, we are here to dig deep over the next
0:36.9	three, four weeks, three weeks plus the Q&A in the world of, in this book. Well, we are here to dig deep over the next three, four weeks,
0:38.0	three weeks plus the Q&A in the world of a post-apocalypse, of fathers and sons,
0:46.5	and of discussion, I'm guessing on the four levels of interpretation in medieval literature. Tim, you're back. I'm back, David.
0:57.9	I'm back. How has it been? It's been good. My baby got baptized two weekends ago.
1:03.8	Nice. It was a really wonderful moment. I've never, I was so excited about it. I was like, why am I so excited about my,
1:13.0	and you can guess the reasons why. Because of the actual book of life. It turns out.
1:19.7	So anyway, I don't know if I have any other big news aside from that. That's a big one. That's a good one.
1:25.7	Yeah. How's your wife? Oh, actually, I do have's a big one. That's a good one. Yeah.
1:31.3	How's your wife? Oh, actually, I do have one other big one.
1:36.1	And it involves the three of you and me. Nah. No, no. Okay.
1:49.1	This week, by the time this comes out, this week, we will drop on another podcast called The Plays the Thing,
1:56.4	the last episode of the entirety of Shakespeare's canon.
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