Close Reads Podcast HQ
Goldberry Studios, Heidi White, David Kern, Sean JohnsonClose Reads is a book club podcast for the incurable reader.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 918 | Founded | 7 years ago | Last Issue | 8 days ago |
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The Feast: Monday
And then it was Monday in Margaret Kennedy’s The Feast.
This week topics of discussion includes the way the various characters may (or may not) represent the seven deadly sins, which characters we root for the most (and which we despise t...
Beowulf (the Tolkien translation): Lines 1-680
Welcome to our new subscriber-exclusive series on J.R.R. Tolkien’s wonderful translation of Beowulf. We’re kicking things off by discussing some differences in the various translations, what makes this story so worth reading for contemporar...
The Feast: Prologue-Sunday
Welcome to the first episode of a new series on Margaret Kennedy’s novel, The Feast. We discuss the book’s allegorical bent (and how it’s different than most allegorical novels), the role of each of the main characters, the unique structure...
The Grapes of Wrath Q&A Episode
You have questions, we did our best to answer them. Thanks for tuning in to this series on Steinbeck’s classic novel and happy listening!
Monthly Mystery: Margery Allingham's "The Tiger in the Smoke"
Hello and welcome to April’s monthly mystery here at Close Reads HQ (a few days late; sorry about that!) Join in as we discuss Margery Allingham’s most highly regarded book—a book which might just have won us all over to Allingham’s work!...
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Goldberry Studios is the team behind Close Reads, The Daily Poem, Withywindle, and Bibliography podcasts.
Teacher, Therapist, Co-host of The Close Reads Podcast, Author of The Divided Soul: Duty and Desire in Literature and Life.
I am the owner of Goldberry Books in Concord, NC, and host of the Close Reads podcast, a literary podcast for the incurable reader, and Withywindle, a bookish show for kids.
Classical teacher and administrator, Close Reads/Daily Poem co-host, Amateur
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