Close Reads Podcast Network

Introducing The Daily Poem, a brief podcast delivered each weekday morning featuring the best poems ever written. Perfect for those few minutes while your toaster is doing its thing. Available now, wherever you get podcasts. itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

On today's episode of @DailyPoemPod I shared one of my favorite poems from the new collection by @SallyThomasNC ("Motherland"). Listen wherever you get podcasts. shows.acast.com/the-daily-poem…

Happy Birthday to the wonderful #WendellBerry, who celebrates #85 today. To celebrate, today's @DailyPoemPod features his "A Poem on Hope." shows.pippa.io/the-daily-poem…

If you're getting ready to join us as we dive into the @EmilyRCWilson translation of the Odyssey on the show over the next 12 weeks, check out @dakern's interview with Wilson from a while back. shows.pippa.io/5a8c9c4c7780d3…

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If you like Graham Greene or spy stories this one is for you. And who doesn’t love at least one of those two things? open.spotify.com/episode/3x1bFj…

This week’s episode is up! Join @dakern, @iamheidiwhitey, and @KSPrior as they chat about Willoughby’s villainy, Marianne’s growth, and Edward’s issues (plus a bit about satire). shows.pippa.io/close-reads/ep…

Today's poem on @DailyPoemPod is by @ae_stallings, one of our favorite poets: shows.pippa.io/the-daily-poem…

On this week’s episode @levistahl and @dakern talked about summer reading. Here are some of the books they discussed. What’s your list look like? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lib…

While recording @CloseReadsPod with @KSPrior and @iamheidiwhitey I got this text from the home front. Sixth month old baby and newly three-year-old boy who doesn’t mind being gross.

New on Libromania from the Network: David chats about Dostoevsky's gambling problem with Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson: shows.pippa.io/libromania/epi…

Don't this miss this week's episode of Libromania, in which I interview renowned Typography, Stephen Banham, about his typeface, Sans Forgetica, which is designed to aid memory retention. Available wherever you get pods, and also here: shows.pippa.io/libromania/epi…

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Hey everyone, we are finalizing the details of our annual literary bracket for March Madness and this year's theme is heroes. We need your help finalizing the last two spots. Here are the nominees. The two highest vote getters will claim the final two spots in the bracket!

Episode 3 of # Libromania (from @CloseReadsPod) is up now. I chatted with @realAdamAndrews of @Center_For_Lit and Dr. Joe Crespino, author of the new book ATTICUS FINCH: THE BIOGRAPHY, about why TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD is so dang popular. Check it out. shows.pippa.io/libromania/epi…

Check it out. We are giving away a beautiful copy of THE JUNGLE BOOK, published by @foliosociety, to one lucky subscriber! Subscribe between now and January 15th to be entered (current subscribers are automatically entered)! formajournal.com/subscribe-1/

Happy 127th Birthday to the Legend. So all you Bagginses and Boffins, Tooks and Brandybucks, Grubbs, Chubbs, Hornblowers, Bolgers, Bracegirdles, and Proudfoots, lift a glass. 🥂 #closereadspodcast #happyreading #legend #tolkien #jrrtolkien

Today's poem might be the quintessential December poem: Thomas Hardy's "The Darkling Thrush" shows.pippa.io/the-daily-poem…

Time for another give away! Follow, retweet, and help us get to 750 followers and once we do we will give away a copy of the absolutely fantastic translation of the ODYSSEY from @EmilyRCWilson! Let's do it.

For the evening crowd.