Things Fall Apart: Part 1

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart is one of the most influential and important examples of world literature in the twentieth century, so we’re very excited to dig in over the next few weeks. In this episode, we’re talking about Achebe’s lovely prose, his high wire act protagonist-wise, how books like this can open our eyes, and much, much more. Oh—and this is one of those special episodes featuring all four of us. Happy listening!

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm David Kern.
0:03.8	I'm Heidi White.
0:05.8	Oh, who's going to go?
0:06.7	And I'm Tim McIntosh.
0:09.9	And we also have Sean's awesome.
0:11.9	And I'm also here.
0:13.8	It's Sean.
0:14.3	Yeah, yeah.
0:15.4	This is close reads.
0:16.3	We mailed that.
0:17.2	It's a podcast for the incurable reader on which we are now discussing
0:20.8	Shinwa a Shabby's book, Things Fall Apart
0:24.1	and the gangs all here.
0:27.0	How great is that?
0:28.0	The best day.
0:29.8	Tim, so glad that you're here.
0:31.4	So glad to be having a conversation with all four of us
0:34.2	to end 2023.
0:36.2	It just felt like the right thing to do to have all of us here
0:38.3	on an episode. So I'm so glad you could make it. Was that to me, David? Right back at you. I'm sorry.
0:44.4	Yeah. Yeah. I know it's to me or to all of us. Yeah. Well, it was just kind of generally,
0:49.5	but in particular, Tim, it's been a little, it's been a couple books since you've been on, right? So, you know, we're just thrilled to have you back and we know our listeners are as well.
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