Close Reads Podcast

Welcome back to Close Reads, where David, Heidi, and Tim are discussing Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory. Conversation in this episode centers primarily on the image of the dying dog - including a long discussion of the nature of images and symbols in literature (how to approach them, in what ways they matter, the difference between an image and a symbol, and more).If you like this show please remember to subscribe, rate, and review!Support us on Patreon! To learn more about the Close Reads Podcast Network please click here.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit closereads.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome back to Close Reads, where David, Heidi, and Tim are discussing Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory. Topics of conversation on this episode include Graham Greene's opinion that these were the greatest pages he ever wrote, the pace of these chapters, the contrast between the two chapters. the whiskey priests' transformation, the lieutenant's inability to recognize the priest, the whiskey priest vs Padre Jose, and much more. If you like this show please remember to subscribe, rate, and review!Support us on Patreon! To learn more about the Close Reads Podcast Network please click here. ***This episode is brought to you by the honors program at Belmont Abbey College. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit closereads.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome back to Close Reads, where David, Heidi, and Tim are discussing Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory. Topics of conversation on this episode include whether the whiskey priest is noble, the various character doubles in the book, the theme of faithfulness in this section, the idea of judgment, and the concept of plausibility structures in making a revolution happen. Typical Close Reads. If you like this show please remember to subscribe, rate, and review!Support us on Patreon! To learn more about the Close Reads Podcast Network please click here. ***This episode is brought to you by the honors program at Belmont Abbey College. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit closereads.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome back to Close Reads, where David, Heidi, and Tim are discussing Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory. Topics of conversation include Coral Fellow's entrance into adulthood and corresponding conversion (?), the faith of the stranger priest, Padre Jose's despair, little Luis' abandonment, and more. If you like this show please remember to subscribe, rate, and review!Support us on Patreon! To learn more about the Close Reads Podcast Network please click here. ***This episode is brought to you by the honors program at Belmont Abbey College. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit closereads.substack.com/subscribe

In this special crossover post from The Play's the Thing, a podcast dedicated to an ongoing examination and celebration of Shakespeare's entire canon, David, Angelina, and Andrew Kern discuss Act I of Much Ado About Nothing. PLEASE NOTE: To access the rest of the shows in this series make sure you have subscribed to The Play's the Thing's feed. Topics of conversation include the multiple meanings of the titles, Renaissance cosmology, order and chaos, music and harmony, triangles, and Love and War. And a lot more. This episode is brought to you our friends at St. John's College - the perfect place for lovers of Shakespeare to take their next academic steps. If you like this podcast, subscribe, rate, review, and click here to sign up for the Close Reads email newsletter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit closereads.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome back to Close Reads, where David, Heidi, and Tim are kicking off a discussion of Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory. Topics of conversation include Green's deft use of subtext, the setting as character, the sadness/hopefullness of the novel, and much more. If you like this show please remember to subscribe, rate, and review!To learn more about the Close Reads Podcast Network please click here. Support us on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit closereads.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode David, Angelina, and Heidi answer listener questions about Wallace Stegner's Crossing to Safety. Topics of conversation include the stuttering son-in-law, Larry's choice to tell this story, the role Charity's death played in the various characters crossing to safety, the Frost poem in the epigraph, and much more. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit closereads.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome back to Close Reads. In this episode, David, Angelina, Heidi, and Graeme chat about the final chapter of Wallace Stegner's Crossing to Safety. Discussion touches on the conflict between the Mogan's and Lang, what makes the ending moving, whether the ending was unexpected, the loveliness of the final two lines, the book's ambiguity, and much more (plus, Graeme tells a story about Halloween candy, in a call back to an old episode). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit closereads.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome back to Close Reads. In this week's episode David, Angelina, and Heidi continue their discussion of Wallace Stegner's Crossing to Safety. Conversations touches on the theme of ambition in the book (and in life), Larry's ongoing contemplation of "going somewhere," Sally's wise view of the world even in the midst of her suffering, and much more. Don't forget: If you like this show subscribe, rate, review! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit closereads.substack.com/subscribe

Join David, Heidi, and Angelina as they continue their conversation about Wallace Stegner's novel, Crossing to Safety. Topics of conversation include the difference between a personal and transcendent experience with art, the bottomlessness of Great Books and Good Books, a comparison between the first chapter of part one and the first chapter of part two, and much, much more. If you like this podcast make sure you've subscribed, rated, and reviewed. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit closereads.substack.com/subscribe