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Tipsy Tolstoy

The Slavic Literature Pod

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...

Episodes

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Ukrainian Literary Modernism (with Drs. Halyna Babak and Yuliya Ilchuk)

Show Notes : This week, Cameron dives into the various forces in Ukrainian literature, theory, and criticism shortly after the turn of the 2...

107:19Sep 18, 2026

Mosquito by Akhmet Baitursynov (with translator Jake Zawlacki)

Show Notes : This week, Jake Zawlacki joins Cameron to talk about his translation of Akhmet Baitursynov's Mosquito . Although it's appearing...

50:22Aug 28, 2026

Sofia Petrova by Lydia Chukovskaya

This week, Cameron (finally) dives into Lydia Chukovskaya's Sofia Petrovna. A novel about the Great Terror written during the Great Terror,...

93:46Aug 14, 2026

For Your Consideration: John Williams' Butcher's Crossing (and why I don't think we should compare it to Blood Meridian)

Show Notes : This week, on For Your Consideration, Cameron dives into John Williams' 1960 novel, Butcher's Crossing , a cautionary tale abou...

83:22Jun 12, 2026

The Last Letter (2002) by Frederick Wiseman + What Vasily Grossman and Life & Fate mean today

Show Notes : This week, Cameron dives into Frederick Wiseman’s 2002 film “The Last Letter,” a dramatization of one chapter of Vasily Grossma...

96:02May 3, 2026

PREP WORK: The Last Letter (2002) by Frederick Wiseman

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...

51:18Apr 3, 2026

A School for Fools by Sasha Sokolov (w/ Dr. José Vergara)

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...

65:31Mar 20, 2026

Chevengur by Andrei Platonov, Chapters 25-43

Show Notes : This week, Cameron takes on the back half of Andrei Platonov’s Chevengur , covering chapters 25-43. As our characters finally a...

105:03Mar 6, 2026

Zvenihora (1928) directed by Oleksandr Dovzhenko

Show Notes : This week, Cameron returns to the beginning of Oleksandr Dovzhenko’s Ukrainian Trilogy with “Zvenihora.” The film, released in...

112:47Feb 13, 2026

Anton Chekhov, Earliest Stories (w/ editors Rosamund Bartlett and Elena Michajlowska)

Show Notes : This week, we see that every author starts somewhere in Anton Chekhov, Earliest Stories: Stories, Novellas, Humoresques, 1880-1...

69:57Jan 21, 2026

My five favorite films of the year + Sayat Nova, dir. by Sergei Parajanov

Show Notes : This week, Cameron talks a little bit about director Sergei Parajanov’s “Sayat Nova” (also known as The Color of Pomegranates),...

42:29Jan 1, 2026

Earth (1930) directed by Oleksandr Dovzhenko

Show Notes : This week, Cameron dives into the final entry into Ukrainian director Oleksandr Dovzhenko’s Silent Trilogy, “Earth” (1930). The...

73:45Dec 5, 2025

Not Russian by Mikhail Shevelev (w/ Ally Pitts, host of A Russian & Soviet Movie Podcast)

Show Notes : This week, Ally Pitts — host of A Russian & Soviet Movie Podcast — joins Cameron to talk about the book Not Russian by Mikhail...

113:41Nov 21, 2025

Chevengur, chapters 1-25, by Andrei Platonov

Show Notes : This week, Cameron dives into Andrei Platonov’s Chevengur , covering chapters 1 through 25. Through the late Russian Empire int...

71:05Oct 27, 2025

The People Immortal by Vasily Grossman

Show Notes : This week, Cameron returns to Vasily Grossman, covering his first novel of World War II, The People Immortal . The novel follow...

77:31Sep 26, 2025

Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky and Delicious Hunger by Hai Fan

Show Notes : This week, Cameron dives into Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic and Hai Fan’s Delicious Hunger , trying to probe the question plagu...

79:59Sep 16, 2025

An update, a reason to podcast, a look through October

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...

12:18Sep 12, 2025

For Your Consideration: War Diary by Yevgenia Belorusets & The Time of Doves by Merce Rodoreda

Show Notes : This week, Cameron continues speaking about Yevgenia Belorusets’ work with War Diary and also explores the experience of women...

70:52Aug 29, 2025

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5:57Aug 22, 2025

Lucky Breaks by Yevgenia Belorusets & The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

Show Notes : This week, Cameron talks about unreliable narrators in Yevgenia Belorusets’ Lucky Breaks and Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carr...

73:29Aug 8, 2025