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

Tipsy Tolstoy by The Slavic Literature Pod

Apr 3, 202651:18Education

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,” which dramatizes a chapter of Vassily Grossman’s Life and Fate . In preparati...

Related Episodes

Continue listening to more episodes from Tipsy Tolstoy.

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

Sep 18, 2026 - 107:19

Show Notes : This week, Cameron dives into the various forces in Ukrainian literature, theory, and critic...

Mosquito by Akhmet Baitursynov (with translator Jake Zawlacki)

Aug 28, 2026 - 50:22

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

Sofia Petrova by Lydia Chukovskaya

Aug 14, 2026 - 93:46

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

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

Jun 12, 2026 - 83:22

Show Notes : This week, on For Your Consideration, Cameron dives into John Williams' 1960 novel, Butcher'...

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

May 3, 2026 - 96:02

Show Notes : This week, Cameron dives into Frederick Wiseman’s 2002 film “The Last Letter,” a dramatizati...

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

Mar 20, 2026 - 65:31

Show Notes : This week, Dr. José Vergara returns to the podcast to talk about Sasha Sokolov’s A School fo...

Chevengur by Andrei Platonov, Chapters 25-43

Mar 6, 2026 - 105:03

Show Notes : This week, Cameron takes on the back half of Andrei Platonov’s Chevengur , covering chapters...

Zvenihora (1928) directed by Oleksandr Dovzhenko

Feb 13, 2026 - 112:47

Show Notes : This week, Cameron returns to the beginning of Oleksandr Dovzhenko’s Ukrainian Trilogy with...