In 2024, Matt and Cameron from The Slavic Literature Pod hosted a chapter a day read along of Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate.
Beginning January 1, 2024 we sent a quick email everyday with thoughts, quotes, and ideas from Grossman's most critically acclaimed novel of the 20th century. We discussed each chapter on our Instagram and with our Discord community. At the end of each day, we also uploaded a short (under 5 minute) recap of everything discussed that day.
During this read along, we read from the New York Review Books edition translated and with an introduction by Robert Chandler. We believe this is the best and most up-to-date version of the book.
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If you found this read along after it has concluded, you can still follow along at your own pace! See below for each of the daily posts that also contain links to each of the daily podcast episodes. In order to avoid cluttering our main podcast feed, the daily episodes are hosted on their own feed called Life and Fate - Chapter a Day Read Along available wherever you get your podcasts.
Follow Along
Week 25
Creators Who Read With Us
During the series, we had the pleasure of reading along and discussing with the following Instagram creators: