The Return of the Close Reads Newsletter!
Greetings Close Readers,
It’s been a while, but the Close Reads newsletter is back. Back and better than ever, right? My goal is to send an email every couple of weeks with information on the authors and book we’re reading together, news and events in the Close Reads Expanded Universe, miscellany about literature that seems like it would be interesting to you, and whatever else seems worth including.
To make this more do-able I’ve migrated the newsletter into a service called Substack, so every email will have it’s own page, making it shareable (and making the subscription process as simple as possible—I know some people had trouble subscribing with the old system).
Consider this email fair-warning. We won't be bombarding your inbox with content, but if you don’t want to hear from us anymore then we won’t be offended if you unsubscribe!
For now I’ll leave you with some news about the upcoming reading schedule!
Once we finish up Sense and Sensibility in a few weeks (and, by the way, major thanks to Karen Swallow Prior for joining the show for this series!), we will dive directly into the Odyssey, using Emily Wilson’s translation as our text. After that we will fulfill an age-old promise to read Louis Auchincloss’ The Rector of Justin, before turning to two books that you voted for in the poll on our Facebook page: A River Run’s Through It (one of Tim’s very favorites) and Peace Like a River (which apparently is a heart book for many of you). I will send out some more exact reading schedules in the near future, but I wanted to let you know what to expect.
Meanwhile, over on The Play’s the Thing we’ll be jumping into the dark waters of Othello soon, followed by The Tempest shortly thereafter. Hope you’re subscribed to that feed!
And, of course, we also have Libromania and The Daily Poem. I really enjoyed my conversation with author David Joy for this week’s episode of Libromania. Remember: subscribe, rate, review!
Okay, last thing: Just want to give a shout to our editor, Logan Green. Without him none of this would be possible. He puts in many, many hours making the shows way more listenable than they start out. And often he turns them around within a few hours. He’s a wizard. If you ever see him on a street somewhere make sure you give him a huge and buy him a cup of copy.
Until next time, happy reading.
-David