{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Turning Pages ","title":"Reading the Classics, with Kelly Hardesty","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/558123f8\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1739,"description":"In this episode I am talking with Kelly Hardesty about her blog, sky-t-tray.us, in which she writes about reading the books we tend to categorize as classics. What is the definition of a literary classic? Why – and how – might a reader explore these works written decades or centuries ago?\nThe books we talked about specifically are\nLittle Women by Lousia May Alcott (1868)\nA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (1943)\nAnne of Green Gables series by L M Montgomery (1908)\nLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez (1985)\nMoonstone by Wilkie Collins (1868)\nFrankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818)\nThe Song of the Lark by Willa Cather (1915)\nI Wonder as I Wander by Langston Hughes (1956)\nLoitering with Intent by Muriel Spark (1981)\nThe Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (1927)\nMartin Eden by Jack London (1909)\nSweet Thursday by John Steinbeck (1954)\nShirley by Charlotte Brontë (1848)\nPersuasion by Jane Austen (1818)\nQuestions or comments about this or past episodes can be sent to TurningPagesKZYX@gmail.com","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/wO1MxRg0eSmxbl0feydb5efm7nQnTjdQT_8VQ5qzGHk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zYmJh/NWE2ZjcwMzAzMzFm/Y2FlYmZjZDczNjcz/NWY0MS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}