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SAVE OUR SHOW: Supporter Drive '23
This week, Matt and Cameron start up the December Supporter Drive 2023, aiming to raise their paying monthly supporters by
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The Master and Margarita (chs. 26-epilogue) by Bulgakov
Major themes: Comedy in translation, Ivan as creative process, PG shootouts for Americans
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A Volga Tale (The Pupil-The Son-The Children) by Yakhina
Major themes: Knowing The Big Lie, WWII as billiards, rivers as historical force
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Office Hours - Life and Fate Chapter a Day Read Along 1/1/2024
Major themes: The Home Depot-Lowe’s spectrum, violence in media, Crime and Punishment and CCTV
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The Master and Margarita (chs. 19-25) by Bulgakov
Major themes: Eroticism as individuality, fairytales as moral clarity, alternative afterlives
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A Volga Tale by Yakhina (The Wife-The Daughter)
Major themes: Fairy tales, women with “K” names, justified societal shunning
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Solaris (1972) by Tarkovsky
Major themes: The only genre is film, ears: the road to the soul, “just be happy doing chores”
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The Master and Margarita (chs. 10-18) by Bulgakov
Major themes: Referential mania, a theoretical Margarita, Is the Soviet Man actually new?
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Queer Nabokov
Nabokov’s writing—complicated, conflicted, historically juicy—remains a worthy locus of attention and a source of immense hermeneutic joy, for the reader, critic, teacher, student.
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Signs and Symbols by Nabokov (w/ Drs. Sara Karpukhin and José Vergara)
Major themes: suspicious reading, open access
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Office Hours - "Literary" fiction, bookstagram, and questionable takes
Major themes: What is fiction anyway?, Rodion “Richard” Raskolnikov, Suspicious Civil War literature
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The Master and Margarita (chs. 1-9) by Bulgakov
Major themes: Speculating on currency, writing in the USSR, The Devil as chance
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