Podcast Episodes

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 Carried, posing…

1 year, 2 months ago

Alindarka's Children by Alhierd Bacharevič & Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

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This week, in For Your Consideration, Cameron dives into Belarusian writer Alhierd Bacharevič’s Alindarka’s Children and Laguna-Pueblo-Ame…

1 year, 2 months ago

Europe Central by William T. Vollmann & Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

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This week, Cameron dives into William T. Vollmann’s Europe Central and Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood. The uniting theme this week: refl…

1 year, 3 months ago

Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me by Teffi & In The Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien

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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’Brien. He’l…

1 year, 3 months ago

The Story of Sonechka by Marina Tsvetaeva (w/ Inessa Fishbeyn and C. D. C. Reeve)

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 recollection of her…

1 year, 4 months ago

A look forward to June

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 club, you …

1 year, 4 months ago

The Moscoviad by Yuri Andrukhovych (w/ Dr. Vitaly Chernetsky)

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This week, Cameron dives into Ukrainian writer Yuri Andrukhovych’s The Moscoviad, a picaresque-cum-magical realist novel following the poe…

1 year, 5 months ago

I Live I See by Vsevolod Nekrasov (w/ trans. Bela Shayevich and Dr. Ainsley Morse)

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This week, Cameron dives into the poetry of Vsevolod Nekrasov, joined by Bela Shayevich and Ainsley Morse who collected and translated wor…

1 year, 5 months ago

Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory by Yaroslav Barsukov (w/ the author himself)

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This week, Cameron ascends into the towering heights of imperial politics in Yaroslav Barsukov’s Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory by Yarosla…

1 year, 6 months ago

Hadji Murat by Leo Tolstoy (w/ Dr. Tatyana Gershkovich)

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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 podcast retur…

1 year, 6 months ago