David Kern 

@davidkern
I am the owner of Goldberry Books in Concord, NC, and host of several bookish podcasts including Close Reads, The Daily Poem, Withywindle (a show for kids), and The Goldberry Books Pod, all available on Substack or wherever you get podcasts.
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Finished A Tale of Two Cities. Tomorrow we will be recording on the final chapters. Fascinated by two things:

  1. The complicated nature of the French revolution and the way Dickens portrays it—and the ways that portrayal may or may not be rooted in reality. But ultimately does it matter?

  2. The final ¼ of the book flies by. It’s so dramatic. So I wonder as the threads come together in really satisfying ways if he was feeling his way into them along the way. The book just coalesces, like a sauce comin…