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Tipsy Tolstoy is a podcast for lovers of Russian literature, those who have heard of Russia and/or literature, and those wondering, “is War and Peace really that good?” Three Fridays per mon...
Show Notes : This week, Cameron dives into Frederick Wiseman’s 2002 film “The Last Letter,” a dramatization of one chapter of Vasily Grossma...
Show Notes : This week, you and Cameron get into some PREP WORK for an upcoming episode about Frederick Wiseman’s 2002 film “The Last Letter...
Show Notes : This week, Dr. José Vergara returns to the podcast to talk about Sasha Sokolov’s A School for Fools . The novel, first publishe...
Show Notes : This week, Cameron takes on the back half of Andrei Platonov’s Chevengur , covering chapters 25-43. As our characters finally a...
Show Notes : This week, Cameron returns to the beginning of Oleksandr Dovzhenko’s Ukrainian Trilogy with “Zvenihora.” The film, released in...
Show Notes : This week, we see that every author starts somewhere in Anton Chekhov, Earliest Stories: Stories, Novellas, Humoresques, 1880-1...
Show Notes : This week, Cameron talks a little bit about director Sergei Parajanov’s “Sayat Nova” (also known as The Color of Pomegranates),...
Show Notes : This week, Cameron dives into the final entry into Ukrainian director Oleksandr Dovzhenko’s Silent Trilogy, “Earth” (1930). The...
Show Notes : This week, Ally Pitts — host of A Russian & Soviet Movie Podcast — joins Cameron to talk about the book Not Russian by Mikhail...
Show Notes : This week, Cameron dives into Andrei Platonov’s Chevengur , covering chapters 1 through 25. Through the late Russian Empire int...
Show Notes : This week, Cameron returns to Vasily Grossman, covering his first novel of World War II, The People Immortal . The novel follow...
Show Notes : This week, Cameron dives into Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic and Hai Fan’s Delicious Hunger , trying to probe the question plagu...
We were supposed to talk about Ilya Kaminsky's Deaf Republic and Fan Hai's Delicious Hunger today, but the episode's audio is trapped on a d...
Show Notes : This week, Cameron continues speaking about Yevgenia Belorusets’ work with War Diary and also explores the experience of women...
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Show Notes : This week, Cameron talks about unreliable narrators in Yevgenia Belorusets’ Lucky Breaks and Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carr...
Show Notes : This week, in For Your Consideration, Cameron dives into Belarusian writer Alhierd Bacharevič’s Alindarka’s Children and Laguna...
Show Notes : This week, Cameron dives into William T. Vollmann’s Europe Central and Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood . The uniting theme thi...
Show Notes : This week, Cameron dives solo into two books: Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me by Teffi and In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O’...
Show Notes : Pick up a copy of The Story of Sonechka here. This week, Cameron dives into Marina Tsvetaeva’s The Story of Sonechka , a recoll...
A quick look forward to our June episodes plus a little apology for the delayed episode this month. If you'd like to join our monthly book c...
Show Notes : This week, Cameron dives into Ukrainian writer Yuri Andrukhovych’s The Moscoviad , a picaresque-cum-magical realist novel follo...
Show Notes : This week, Cameron dives into the poetry of Vsevolod Nekrasov, joined by Bela Shayevich and Ainsley Morse who collected and tra...
Show Notes : This week, Cameron ascends into the towering heights of imperial politics in Yaroslav Barsukov’s Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory...
Show Notes : This week, Cameron dives back into the work of Leo Tolstoy to talk about one of his later works, Hadji Murat . He’s joined by p...
Pick up a copy of To Hell with Poets from the Tilted Axis Press website. Show Notes : This week, Cameron revisits Baqytgul Sarmekova’s To He...
Buy a copy of I Burned at the Feast here . Show Notes : This week, Cameron dives into the collection I Burned at the Feast: Selected Poems o...
Show Notes : This week, Cameron will dive into the novel Cecil the Lion Had to Die by Ukrainian historian, journalist, and novelist Olena St...
Cameron pops in at the end of the month to talk about episodes you can expect in the coming months. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle...
Pick up a copy of The Talnikov Family from Columbia University Press ! Show Notes : This week, Cameron gets into Avdotya Panaeva’s The Talni...
Show Notes: Our Christmas gift to you is a non-clickbait title. Unusual for December, huh? TL;DR: Matt is going to be stepping back from the...
Show Notes : This week, Matt and Cameron dive into the short story “The Performance,” from Sergei Dovlatov’s book The Zone . Get ready to di...
Show Notes : This week, Matt and Cameron get into their last Office Hours of the year, tackling the future of literature, whether or not Tol...
Heads up: This episode will contain conversation about incest throughout. Take that into consideration as you head into it. Also sorry about...
Show Notes : This week, Matt and Cameron dig into the short story collection To Hell WIth Poets , authored by Kazakh writer Baqytgul Sarmeko...
Show Notes : This week, Matt and Cameron host Office Hours, speaking about the wider state of reading as well as some non-Slavic lit they’ve...
Show Notes : This week, Matt and Cameron dive into Sergei Eisenstein’s landmark film Strike! (1925) to get a better look into his foundation...
Show Notes : This week, Matt and Cameron dive into Andriy Sodomora’s short story collection The Tears & Smiles of Things with the help of it...
Show Notes : This week, Matt and Cameron talk Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song , dropping the nuclear bomb (a timely conversation), and torturing y...
Show Notes : This week, Matt and Cameron are down with the sickness of Schulzomania, covering parts of the short story collection “The Stree...
Show Notes : This week, Matt and Cameron chart new territory by covering the novella Devil's Yard by Yugoslav writer, poet, and diplomat (at...
Note: This episode originally aired in February 2024. Matt and Cameron are taking a much needed break this August and wanted to re-up some m...
Note: This episode originally aired in January 2024. Matt and Cameron are taking a much needed break this August and wanted to re-up some mi...
Note: This episode originally aired in April 2024. Matt and Cameron are taking a much needed break this August and wanted to re-up some mid-...
Show Notes : They said it couldn’t be done; they said it was too much work; they say it was simply too much Grossman . (The ‘they’ here is M...
Show Notes : This week, Matt and Cameron stay in Stalingrad to the bitter end, covering Chapters 19 to 48 in Part 3 of Vasily Grossman’s Lif...
Show Notes : This week, Matt and Cameron dive into the 1924 film Aelita , directed by Yakov Protazanov, to learn more about very early Sovie...
Show Notes : This week, Matt and Cameron return to the salt mines of Reddit to address some of the internet’s most asked questions, such as...
Show Notes : This week, Matt and Cameron finish the encirclement of Paulus’ 6th Army in Stalingrad as they cover Vasily Grossman’s Life and...
Show Notes : This week, Matt and Cameron get into Lyudmila Ulitskaya’s recently published collection of short stories “The Body of the Soul....