A Programming Update for Late September

Close Reads HQ

The Country School, Winslow Homer, 1871

Hello friends,

School is back in session and autumn is officially on the way. This means that, not only is prime reading season coming soon, our event on comedy in literature is in just two weeks! Are you coming? We’d love to host you here in Concord and at Goldberry Books—and who wouldn’t want to laugh (and contemplate) with a community as great as Close Readers? (That’s not a rhetorical question. I actually want to know.)

As usual we have lots going on here at Close Reads, so I’ll just get right into here. Here are the schedules for the next few books, etc.

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Upcoming Schedules

As always, the dates posted here are the days the episodes will drop, not when they will be recorded.

Schedule for Viper’s Tangle

September 23: Chapters 1-5
September 30: Chapters 6-10
October 7: Chapters 11-15
October 14: Chapters 16-20 (end)
October 21: Q&A Episode

Schedule for Station Eleven

October 28: Parts 1-2
November 4: Parts 3-4
November 11: Parts 5-6
November 18: Parts 7-8
November 25: Q&A Episode

Schedule for Mansfield Park

Jane Austen’s third novel (considered by some people on this podcast to be her best) is our current book on CRHQ. If you’re subscribed you’ll have access to these conversations. Austen is always a treat to read and discuss.

September 20: Volume 1, chapters 1-5
October 11: Volume 1, chapters 6-11
October 25: Volume 1, chapters 12-18
November 8: Volume 2, chapters 1-4
November 22: Volume 2, chapters 5-9
December 6: Volume 2, chapters 10-13
December 20: Volume 3, chapters 1-6
January 3: Volume 3, chapters 7-12
January 17: Volume 3, chapters 13-17 (end)
January 24: Q&A episode

Please note: the next HQ book will be The Betrothed.

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Live poetry hour for September

Our next live poetry hour for CRHQ subscribers will take place on Wednesday, September 25 at 9 pm est. We will be discussing W.B. Yeat’s “Sailing for Byzantium”!

As always, this conversation will take place on Zoom and the link will be sent to subscribers that morning. These have been really lovely conversations and I hope you’ll plan to join us!

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Monthly Mysteries

We’ve been enjoying our series of episodes dedicated to mystery stories (or as Heidi refers to them, “the murder pods”), and in September we’ll be discussing The Case of the Gilded Fly by Edmund Crispin, who you might remember from last year’s show. This episode will be up on Friday of next week.

Upcoming

• September: The Case of the Gilded Fly (Edmund Crispin)

• October: The Chill (Ross Macdonald)

• November: A Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side (later Agatha Christie)

• December: The White Priory Murders (Carter Dickson)

Past episodes

• Strong Poison (Dorothy Sayers) - Listen now

• The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Agatha Christie) - Listen now

• Post After Post-Mortem (E. C. R. Lorac) - Listen now

• The Franchise Affair (Josephine Tey) - Listen now

• Death of Jezebel (Christianna Brand) - Listen now

• Father Brown (Chesterton) - Listen now

• The Maltese Falcon (Dashiell Hammett) - Listen Now

• August: Jumping Jenny (Anthony Berkley) - Listen Now

Should you, hypothetically, wish to buy any of these titles through Goldberry, you can do so here at Bookshop.org.

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ICYMI:

• You can claim a seat at our upcoming Close Reads conference on humor in literature. Join us!

• You can pre-order Lumen now!

• We’re hosting the one-and-only Daniel Nayeri for a book launch at the shop on October 5. It’s free.

• You can also grab copies of next year’s books from us on Bookshop.org.

Happy reading!