Heidi White

Colorado Springs

“An Aristotle-quoting champagne drinker.” Podcast at FORMA & Close Reads Podcast Network. Managing editor at FORMA Journal.

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The Betrothed: Chapters 17-20

1 week ago | closereads.substack.com | Sean Johnson |Heidi White

Welcome back to our ongoing conversation about Alessandro Manzoni’s classic Italian novel. In this episode we discuss the deeper turn of the novel, Renzo’s journey towards manhood, and the ongoing conflict within the villains. Happy listening! Listen to this episode with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to Close Reads Podcast HQ to listen to this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.
Station Eleven: Parts 5-6

Nov 11, 2024 | closereads.substack.com | Heidi White

Close Reads is a book-club podcast for the incurable reader co-hosted by David Kern, Heidi White, Sean Johnson, and occasionally Tim McIntosh. We read good books and talk about them. This is a show for amateurs in the best sense. This is not an experts show: we’re book lovers, book enthusiasts. Our goal is have empathetic and intelligent conversations about good books. Close Reads is produced by Goldberry Studios, the podcast wing of Goldberry Books, a family-run indie bookshop in Concord, NC.
Station Eleven: Parts 3-4

Nov 4, 2024 | closereads.substack.com | Heidi White

Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Welcome back to our discussion of Emily St. John Mandel’s award-winning, best-selling contemporary novel, Station Eleven. Topics of conversation on this first episode include:the winding way in which the book reveals itself the moral universe (and telos) that the book seems to be setting forthMandel’s unique ability to craft characters which seem aliveand much, much more.
Station Eleven: Parts 1 & 2

Oct 28, 2024 | closereads.substack.com | Heidi White

Welcome to a new series here on Close Reads, in which we’re digging into Emily St. John Mandel’s award-winning, best-selling contemporary novel, Station Eleven, a book which became eerily prescient during peak Covid days. Topics of conversation on this first episode include: the experience of reading a book which fictionalized events which almost seemed to actually have happened (sort of) . . .
Viper's Tangle: Chapters 1-5

Sep 24, 2024 | closereads.substack.com | Heidi White

Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. This week we kick off a new book with some conversation about Sean’s obsession with Graham Greene, why books about spiritual struggle are so compelling, whether this book has an unreliable narrator, and the difference between a novelist who is Catholic and a Catholic who is a novelist. Happy listening! Discussion about this podcastClose Reads is a book-club podcast for the incurable reader.
The Classical Mind Newsletter for March 15, 2024

Mar 15, 2024 | theclassicalmind.com | Vincenzo Camuccini |Wesley Walker |Heidi White |Jesse Hake

Since it is the Ides of March, consider re-listening to our episode on Julius Caesar with ! Julius Caesar by William ShakespeareFr. Wesley Walker, Junius Johnson, and Heidi White·Feb 19Junius was recently on the TrueNorth Podcast Network to discuss God and Time with (who has a wonderful Substack called ).
A Canticle for Leibowitz: Chapters 16-24

Nov 13, 2023 | closereads.substack.com | Heidi White

What to make of the Poet? I have more questions than answers. My intuition says it's worth pondering the fact that he is a poet. Poetry doesn't quite fit in either camp: faith or reason. It's its own thing, another way of knowing, not necessarily rational but not necessarily seeing with the eyes of faith. I like that he gets pushed aside to make way for the thon. We don't actually see any of the poetry he writes, do we? What's the point of having a poet in the story when we don't get his poetry?
A Canticle for Leibowitz: Chapters 16-24

Nov 13, 2023 | closereads.substack.com | Heidi White

Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Appears in this episodeWrites Heidi White SubscribeClose Reads is a book-club podcast for the incurable reader. Featuring David Kern, Tim McIntosh and Heidi White, alongside a couple of other occasional guests, we read Great Books and talk about them. This is a show for amateurs in the best sense. We’re book lovers, book enthusiasts.
The Divided Soul in the American South: A Close Reads on the Road Talk

Sep 8, 2023 | closereads.substack.com | Heidi White

Listen now (44 mins) | Normally, we would be dropping a new subscriber-exclusive episode today, but since Monday was Labor Day we took the day off which means the newest episode on That Hideous Strength will come next week. Instead, we’re sharing a special treat: Heidi’s talk from the recent Close Reads on the Road event we hosted in August. So whether you were there and get to hear it again or you’re checking it out for the first time, happy listening!
The Divided Soul in the American South: A Close Reads on the Road Talk

Sep 8, 2023 | closereads.substack.com | Heidi White

Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Appears in this episodeWrites Heidi White SubscribeClose Reads is a book-club podcast for the incurable reader. Featuring David Kern, Tim McIntosh and Heidi White, alongside a couple of other occasional guests, we read Great Books and talk about them. This is a show for amateurs in the best sense. We’re book lovers, book enthusiasts.