The Scarlet Letter: Chapters 9-13
Close Reads Podcast
Goldberry Studios
4.4 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Does this book offer an alternative vision to the spiritual corruption that it criticizes? How would it be different if Hawthorne was lest on-the-nose with his metaphors and character names? Join David, Heidi, and Karen as they explore these (and other) questions from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel. Happy listening!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm David Kern. |
| 0:03.9 | I'm Heidi White. |
| 0:05.3 | I'm Karen Swallow Pryor. |
| 0:07.0 | And you were listening to Close Reeds, a podcast for the Incurable Reader on which we are discussing Nathaniel Hawthorne's book, The Scarlet Letter. |
| 0:13.4 | More specifically, we are discussing chapters 9 through 13 this week. |
| 0:19.3 | Now, before we get into that, Heidi, I feel like you should probably just tell the listeners |
| 0:25.3 | what's happening in your life for the next two weeks. |
| 0:27.7 | Like, just make them jealous or, you know, give them an opportunity to... |
| 0:33.5 | You're allowed to feel whatever you feel. |
| 0:35.9 | No feeling is final and no feeling is wrong. |
| 0:41.0 | Oh, no about that, but go ahead. |
| 0:44.1 | I am, my son Jack and I, he's 16, or just, he's actually turning 17 while we're gone. |
| 0:49.8 | And we are going to Greece on Wednesdays, which I think that is. |
| 0:55.8 | We'll already be there by the time this episode drops. |
| 0:58.0 | Yeah, by the time this episode drops, yeah. |
| 0:59.6 | You'll have been there for a while. |
| 1:01.3 | So I bring that up because one, that's amazing. |
| 1:04.0 | Heidi gets to go to Greece. |
| 1:04.8 | So we're going to be hearing all about that. |
| 1:06.7 | But also because we are recording this a couple days earlier than normal, |
| 1:10.9 | sometimes I try to keep an eye out for questions people might have asked |
| 1:14.3 | or topics of conversation that are showing up in various forms online |
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