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We’ve come to the end of Emily Bronte’s novel and so we’re here to discuss, well, how it ends.
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Join in as we discuss this month’s mystery novel: Ross Macdonald’s The Zebra-Striped Hearse, a classic midcentury title from one of the kings of the hard-boiled mystery.
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Welcome back to our ongoing conversation about Emily Bronte’s novel!
The divine right of kings.
Welcome back to our ongoing series on Emily Bronte’s novel!
Ten years ago, on the first ever episode of Close Reads, we discussed “A Good Man Is Hard To Find,” the famous story by Flannery O’Connor.
It's on space . . . the one related to art, not astronomy. Although, come to think of it . . .
Welcome back to our ongoing series on Emily Bronte’s classic novel.
Welcome to a new subscriber-exclusive series here on Close Reads as we begin our long-promised dive into the world of Shakespeare’s first tetralogy!
Welcome back to our ongoing series on Emily Bronte’s classic novel.
Join in as we discuss this month’s mystery novel: Rex Stout’s Some Buried Caesar, a 1930’s classic from one of the most popular of all American mystery writers.
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As we conclude our conversations on Alessandro Manzoni’s classic of Italian fiction, it’s time to answer your questions.
As always, you had plenty of great questions about our current book and on this episode we did our best to answer a bunch of them.
Join in as we discuss this month’s mystery novel: John Dickson Carr’s The Seat of the Scornful, a cult classic from the master of the locked room mystery .
It’s a bit late, but better late than never, right?
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