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...
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Tipsy Tolstoy
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...
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20 of 191 episodesMosquito 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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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),...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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...