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Life and Fate Book 1 Chs. 1-31 by Grossman
Major themes: A wolfish era, memorialization not valorization, emerging identities
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Ochre & Rust by Gandlevsky (w/ translator Philip J. Metres)
Major themes: Prodigious drinking, After the USSR’s dissolution, Andrei Bolkonsky returns
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The Sulphur Spring by Durova/Alexandrov
Major themes: Improvised speaking, sulpher water, ambiguous relationships
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We Need to Talk: Supporter Drive '23
Major themes: sustainability and off-loading
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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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