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Celebrate Pride, always
Pride Month is over; celebrating Pride is not. An affirmation of one of this podcast's core beliefs.
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Cameron Lallana
One-half of The Slavic Literature Pod duo. Old man by nature, killjoy by trade. I read trashy sci-fi and noir novels on the side.
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For Your Consideration: Butcher's Crossing by John Williams (and why I don't think we should compare it to Blood Meridian)
Cameron dives into John Williams' 1960 novel, Butcher's Crossing, a cautionary tale about how reading Ralph Waldo Emerson can drive you into buffalo-murdering madness.
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PREP WORK: The Last Letter (2002) by Frederick Wiseman
Cameron covers some necessary background information for an upcoming episode about Frederick Wiseman’s 2002 film “The Last Letter,” which dramatizes a chapter of Vassily Grossman’s Life and Fate.
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A School for Fools by Sasha Sokolov (w/ Dr. José Vergara)
Dr. José Vergara Vergara returns to the podcast to break down Sasha Sokolov's first novel, A School for Fools.
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Chevengur by Andrei Platonov, Chapters 25-43
This week, Cameron takes on the back half of Andrei Platonov’s Chevengur, covering chapters 25-43. As our characters finally arrive in the town of Chevengur, we go from a picaresque romp around the newly-Soviet countryside into the dirty work of actually building Communism.
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Zvenihora (1928) directed by Oleksandr Dovzhenko
This week, Cameron returns to the beginning of Oleksandr Dovzhenko’s Ukrainian Trilogy with “Zvenihora.” The film, released in 1928, explores a thousand years of Ukrainian history — spanning from Varangian invasion to the rise of the Soviet Union.
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The People Immortal by Vasily Grossman
This week, Cameron dives into Vasily Grossman's first book of World War II: The People Immortal. Learn about how his writing evolved before writing his own "immortal" books, Stalingrad and LIfe and Fate
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Anton Chekhov, Earliest Stories (w/ editors Rosamund Bartlett and Elena Michajlowska)
Every author starts somewhere. To talk about Chekhov’s earliest published stories, Cameron sits down with Elena Michajlowska and Rosamund Bartlett, editors of a new collection.
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Sayat Nova
A short review of Sayat Nova (1969) / The Color of Pomegranates, directed by Sergei Parajanov. Plus, five other films I really liked this year.
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For Your Consideration: Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky & Delicious Hunger by Hai Fan
This week, Cameron dives into Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic and Hai Fan’s Delicious Hunger, trying to probe the question plaguing recent episodes: “What is the value of art during wartime?”
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For Your Consideration: War Diary by Yevgenia Belorusets & The Time of Doves by Mercè Rodoreda
Cameron continues speaking about Yevgenia Belorusets’ work with War Diary and also explores the experience of women living through war in Merce Rodoreda’s The Time of Doves.
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For Your Consideration: Lucky Breaks by Yevgenia Belorusets and The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
This week, Cameron talks about unreliable narrators in Yevgenia Belorusets’ Lucky Breaks and Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, posing an unusual argument: what if lying to your reader was a good thing?
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