Close Reads is a book-club podcast for the incurable reader. Featuring David Kern, Tim McIntosh and
Summer is nearly here, so it’s the perfect time to dive into Tove Jansson’s cult classic, The Summer
As always, we’re concluding a series by answering you questions. And, while it may have taken two di
We can finally talk about the whole book, which really means we can finally debate all the things we
Part three of Hernan Diaz’s novel is quite different than its two predecessors. On the one hand, it
We’re back to discuss part two of Hernan Diaz’s award-winning novel. In this episode we chat about w
The gang is all back for this new series on Hernan Diaz’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Trust! Join
Once again, it’s time to answer your questions! So join us as we discuss Tolkien’s many choices, som
Bilbo’s journey is over and he’s home, which means there’s plenty to talk about. So this week we’re
Bilbo, Thorin, and co. are well on their way, but are they actually good at their jobs? We discuss.
Welcome to a new series here on Close Reads! We’re talking Tolkien, we’re talking Hobbits, we’re tal
We’ve come to the end of the line discussing another book and that means it’s time to answer your qu
This week we begin with a brief “Posts for the Hosts” segment before diving into conversation about
The gang’s all back to discuss Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. This week we contemplate the gruesome nat
Welcome to our new (and long-awaited) series on Cormac McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic novel, The Road.
And so we come to the end of our conversations on Anthony Trollope’s The Warden, focusing, as always
Welcome to our conversation on the concluding chapters of The Warden, in which the Close Reads team
This week’s episode features a new occasional segment tentatively called “Letters to the Editors” (h
This week on the show, Sean is forced to confront some . . . questions . . . about The Warden presen
Welcome to conversations on a new book, which is in a genre we seem to turn to at least once a year:
It’s Q&A time! This week David, Heidi, and Sean discuss the end of Wodehouse’s Summer Lightning, the
