Hello, I'm David Kern.

I'm Heidi Waite.

I'm Karen Swallow Pryor.

And you were listening to Close Reads, a podcast for the Incurable Reader on which we are

answering your questions about Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.

That's right.

We are now in our final episode on The Scarlet Letter, which sadly means it's our final episode for this year, unless something comes up with Karen Swallow Prior.

Karen, this has been so fun, but we are going to miss you.

I know.

Well, I'm going to miss you guys, too.

So it's so great to be back, and it has become kind of a tradition.

So hopefully we'll do it again.

Yeah, we'll have to consider, you know, one of your other additions or although we've covered most of them, or maybe, who knows, maybe even another book you just happened to love.

Yeah, we could do that. Yeah.

A book that maybe was almost major list of editions that you did from P&H,

but didn't quite make the, because this would give you another chance to apologize for that book.

You know, not apologize because, you know, you feel bad for it.

But, yeah, what did you consider that didn't make it?

Oh, that's a good question.

Well, I mean, I, of course considered all of the Jane Austen novels, you know, and I picked sense and sensibility because I thought we all need to balance that, just like Austin said.

And another one, now, mind you, I had to keep within, there are a lot of books i would have done if they were in

public domain oh sure yeah so that yeah um which the great gatsby just came into public domain i think this

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