# Tim Mcintosh

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Episode 7: The Little Prince: Philosophy and Foxes - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

In this episode of Hot Takes on the Classics, Tim McIntosh and Emily Maeda close their exploration of childhood with Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince. Part children’s story, part fairy tale, and part philosophical meditation, the book asks readers to recover a childlike capacity for won…

Episode 8: "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”: Questions Can Lead You Astray by Joyce Carol Oates

In this episode of Hot Takes on the Classics, Tim McIntosh and Emily Maeda enter the teen years with Joyce Carol Oates’s “Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?,” a terrifying story in which almost nothing violent happens on the page. They follow fifteen-year-old Connie from a restless family li…

Episode 9: Trilogy: Three Stories of One Love - Jon Fosse

In this episode of Hot Takes on the Classics, Tim McIntosh and Emily Maeda explore Jon Fosse’s Trilogy, the work of a Norwegian novelist and playwright whose spare, musical prose gives voice to experiences that resist ordinary explanation. Focusing primarily on “Wakefulness,” they follow the young …

Episode 11: Everything That Rises Must Converge: Coming Together May be Harder than it Seems - Flannery O’Connor

In this episode of Hot Takes on the Classics, Tim McIntosh and Emily Maeda explore Flannery O’Connor’s “Everything That Rises Must Converge,” a story of young adulthood, race, pride, dependence, and painful moral awakening. Set largely on a city bus, the story brings Julian, a self-consciously prog…

Episode 12: Hills Like White Elephants — Ernest Hemingway

In this episode of Hot Takes on the Classics, Tim McIntosh and Emily Maeda explore Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants,” a story in which the most important subject is never named. At a Spanish train station, an American man and a young woman called Jig wait for a train to Madrid while c…

Episode 13: Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin: Music as Life

In this episode of Hot Takes on the Classics, Tim McIntosh and Emily Maeda explore James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues,” a story about two brothers trying to understand one another across the distance created by responsibility, suffering, addiction, and art. They discuss Baldwin’s lyrical prose, his Har…

Episode 14: Hot Takes on Classical Education

In this special spouses episode of Hot Takes on the Classics, Tim McIntosh and Emily Maeda are joined by Gaelyn Hurd and Mark Maeda to ask two deceptively simple questions: What is classical education, and what convinced each of them that it was worth pursuing? Their answers range across the great …

Episode 14: Babette’s Feast: The Artist At Work - Isak Dinesen

In this episode of Hot Takes on the Classics, Tim McIntosh and Emily Maeda explore Isak Dinesen’s “Babette’s Feast,” a story about beauty, sacrifice, holiness, and the demanding vocation of the artist. In a quiet Norwegian religious community shaped by austerity, Babette arrives as a refugee and sp…

Episode 15: A Doll’s House — Henrik Ibsen: The Door Slam Heard Around the World

In this episode of Hot Takes on the Classics, Tim McIntosh and Emily Maeda explore Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, the 1879 play whose ending shocked European audiences and helped redefine modern drama. They trace the legal and social pressures behind Nora Helmer’s secret loan, her forged signature,…

Episode 16: A Small, Good Thing: Forgiveness from the Oven, by Raymond Carver

In this episode of Hot Takes on the Classics, Tim McIntosh and Emily Maeda explore Raymond Carver’s “A Small, Good Thing,” a story of parental grief that moves from isolation and rage toward an unexpected moment of forgiveness. After eight year old Scotty is struck by a car and later dies in the ho…