Researching interpretive talk around literary narrative texts: shared novel reading: by John Gordon, New York, NY, Routledge, 2020, 260 pp., £120.00 (hardback), £33.29 (eBook), ISBN 9780367230074 Gordon highlights the heteroglossic nature of the teacher's speech in PLN: first he contends teachers' spoken quotations as "text-as-participant" in classroom discourse even though they are not social actors. I Researching Interpretive Talk Around Literary Narrative Texts: Shared Novel Reading i by John Gordon provides an opportune, rigorous, and practical contribution to existing methodological and conceptual conversations on literary pedagogy. [Extracted from the article]