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The Slavic Literature Pod

The Slavic Literature Pod

The Slavic Literature Pod is your guide to the literary traditions in and around the Slavic world. On each episode, Cameron Lallana sits down with scholars, translators and other experts to dive deep into big books, short stories, film, and everything in between. You’ll get an approachable introduction to the scholarship and big ideas surrounding these canons roughly two Fridays per month.

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12:19

Life and Fate Read Along: Part 1, Chapter 4

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2024/01/05

Wondering where the other episodes in this series are? We've moved them to a secondary RSS feed (under the title Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate Read Along) to avoid clutter. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or wherever else you get your podcasts.Covering thoughts shared by some of our listeners on our Discord and on social media about Part 1, Chapter 4 of Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate. You can read our post about the chapter here.If you haven't already signed up

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12:39

Life and Fate Read Along: Part 1, Chapter 3

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2024/01/04

Wondering where the other episodes in this series are? We've moved them to a secondary RSS feed (under the title Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate Read Along) to avoid clutter. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or wherever else you get your podcasts.Covering thoughts shared by some of our listeners on our Discord and on social media about Part 1, Chapter 3 of Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate. You can read our post about the chapter here.If you haven't already signed up

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11:38

Life and Fate Read Along: Part 1, Chapter 2

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2024/01/03

Wondering where the other episodes in this series are? We've moved them to a secondary RSS feed (under the title Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate Read Along) to avoid clutter. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or wherever else you get your podcasts.Covering thoughts shared by some of our listeners on our Discord and on social media about Part 1, Chapter 2 of Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate. You can read our post about the chapter here.If you haven't already signed up

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7:40

Life and Fate Read Along: Part 1, Chapter 1

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2024/01/02

Wondering where the other episodes in this series are? We've moved them to a secondary RSS feed (under the title Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate Read Along) to avoid clutter. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or wherever else you get your podcasts.Covering thoughts shared by some of our listeners on our Discord and on social media about Part 1, Chapter 1 of Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate. You can read our post about the chapter here.If you haven't already signed up

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39:00

December Break: The Sistine Madonna by Grossman

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2023/12/29

Show Notes:Note: This is a re-run of Vasily Grossman's "The Sistine Madonna." Matt and Cameron have finished reading Stalingrad, but they aren’t yet done with Grossman. This week, they tackle his short story “The Sistine Madonna.” Written before the publication of Stalingrad and after he began to write Life and Fate, “The Sistine Madonna” is a piece about beauty, desperation, and hope for the future. Oh, and thermonuclear war. It covers a lot of ground. Grab your Bibles to track the

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6:27

Coming Soon: Supporter Drive '23

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2023/12/15

This week, Matt and Cameron start up the December Supporter Drive 2023, aiming to raise their paying monthly supporters by 10 people. If you're interested in supporting us, you can do so here.So why are we asking for the money? To answer that, we recorded several short episodes covering our purpose (as we see it), how we plan to spend the money, and how we're looking to expand into the future.This week, we'll talking about what's coming next for us. Of course, we'll be touching

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7:15

We Need To Talk: Supporter Drive '23

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2023/12/08

This week, Matt and Cameron start up the December Supporter Drive 2023, aiming to raise their paying monthly supporters by 10 people. If you're interested in supporting us, you can do so here.So why are we asking for the money? To answer that, we recorded several short episodes covering our purpose (as we see it), how we plan to spend the money, and how we're looking to expand into the future.This week, we'll talking through what we intend to use your money for: for the tools we use, to

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7:41

SAVE OUR SHOW: Supporter Drive '23

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2023/12/01

This week, Matt and Cameron start up the December Supporter Drive 2023, aiming to raise their paying monthly supporters by 10 people. If you're interested in supporting us, you can do so here. So why are we asking for the money? To answer that, we recorded several short episodes covering our purpose (as we see it), how we plan to spend the money, and how we're looking to expand into the future. This week, we'll covering the first point: what is the point of the Slavic Literature Pod and

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56:30

The Master and Margarita (chs. 26-epilogue) by Bulgakov

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2023/11/17

Show Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron wrap up Mikhail Bulgakov’s Soviet-era masterpiece The Master and Margarita, covering chapters 26 to the epilogue. Come see the Devil and a representative of Yeshua Ha-Nozri hack out the fate of our eponymous characters, as the Moscow investigators finally try to put a pin into this whole “magic” thing. Major themes: Comedy in translation, Ivan as creative process, PG shootouts for Americans01:35 - “Soviet-era” literature, I should say 04:03 - Covering “The Best

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52:05

A Volga Tale (The Pupil-The Son-The Children) by Yakhina

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2023/11/10

Show Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron finish the last three parts of Guzel Yakhina’s A Volga Tale, discuss fairytales as history, talk about best character Vaska, and think about billiards as a metaphor for World War II. Join us as we think about just what does the Volga mean. Major themes: Knowing The Big Lie, WWII as billiards, rivers as historical force 43:56 - Part 1 of our series on Fyodor Gladkov’s Cement. The music used in this episode was “Старое Кино / Staroye Kino,” by Перемотка /

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47:06

Office Hours - Life and Fate Chapter a Day Read Along...

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2023/11/03

Sign up for emails related to our Life and Fate read along here!Show Notes:This week, it’s time for Office Hours, which Matt and Cameron are contractually obliged to hold at least once per quarter. This episode they’ll be revealing a little something-something that you should look forward to, talk about violence and discomfort in media, and spend a little time on Reddit. Just another day on campus.Major themes: The Home Depot-Lowe’s spectrum, violence in media, Crime and Punishment and CCTV04:40 -

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49:32

The Master and Margarita (chs. 19-25) by Bulgakov

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2023/10/20

Show Notes:Content warning: there will be a brief mention of rape from 12:20 to 12:28. This week, Matt and Cameron get into their tuxes for a Devil’s Ball celebrated all the way from across the skies to the distorted apartments of Moscow, covering chapters 19 through 25 of Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita. They’ll be talking sex, they’ll be talking fairytale morality, and you bet they’ll be talking about dismembered heads. All in all, fairly normal things when you’re celebrating with

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52:46

A Volga Tale (The Wife-The Daughter) by Yakhina

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2023/10/13

Show NotesContent Warning: there are mentions of rape around 10:55-12:30 and 27:45-28:10This week, Matt and Cameron lace up their sailing shoes and dig into Guzel Yakhina’s sophomore novel A Volga Tale. Hop on your skiff and let’s get discussing!Major themes: Fairy tales, women with “K” names, justified societal shunningBuy this book with our affiliate links on ⁠Bookshop⁠ or ⁠Amazon⁠!01:51 - A link to Part 1 of our episodes covering Guzel Yakhina’s Zuleikha.23:52 - Korenizatsiia27:10 - Laurus by

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60:13

Solaris (1972) by Tarkovsky

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2023/10/06

Show Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron explore Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 film Solaris. They talk genre, they talk the meaning of the soul, and they draw a couple points from — hold on, what do you mean he wrote a book about it? I did all this research and he just…he just wrote a book? Okay, that’s fine. Well, they’ll cover what he has to say, where they agree and disagree, and what it means to become human. Major themes: The only genre is film, ears: the road to the soul, “just be happy doing

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50:22

The Master and Margarita (chs. 10-18) by Bulgakov

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2023/09/15

Show Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron track the (alleged) Devil’s progress through Moscow through his debut at the Variety Theatre and beyond in Chapters 10-18 of Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita. Grab your hidden speculative currency and turn in to follow the aftermath of Woland’s arrival, his magic tricks, and — finally — the arrival of The Master into the plot. Major themes: Referential mania, a theoretical Margarita, Is the Soviet Man actually new?13:45 - Nathan for you clipEnding -

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77:58

Signs and Symbols by Nabokov (w/ Drs. Sara Karpukhin...

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2023/09/08

Pick up a copy of Drs. Karpukhin and Vergara’s edited collection of pedagogical essays, Reimagining Nabokov: Pedagogies for the 21st Century here!Show Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron tackle “Signs and Symbols” by Vladimir Nabokov and are joined in this effort by Drs. José Vergara and Sara Karpukhin. Dr. Vergara is both a returning podcast guest and an Assistant Professor of Russian on the Myra T. Cooley Lectureship at Bryn Mawr College, and Dr. Karpukhin is a Lecturer in Russian at the University

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66:28

Office Hours - "Literary" fiction, bookstagram, and...

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2023/09/01

Show Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron debut the first episode of a new series we’re calling “Office Hours.” Sit down with us as we catch up about our lives, talk about Matt’s thoughts on Reddit and bookstagram, and stray into Cameron’s fascination with a particular alternate history author. We recorded this episode while sipping on Espresso Martinis, per the request of our supporter Kaitlin.Major themes: What is fiction anyway?, Rodion “Richard” Raskolnikov, Suspicious Civil War literature2:59 -

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54:23

The Master and Margarita (chs. 1-9) by Bulgakov

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2023/08/18

Show Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron kick off their next big read, The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, covering chapters one through nine. Join us as we talk about how the devil definitely doesn’t exist according to the USSR, how the devil definitely does exist according to the Devil, and the true story of the Gospels (at least, if you believe the Devil). Oh, also there’s a lot to say about Soviet life. And, somehow, all these features come together much more neatly than you’d expect

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59:06

The Kreutzer Sonata by Tolstoy (w/ Dr. Tatyana...

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2023/08/11

Show Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron dive into a work that’s been on the sidelines for far too long: The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy, along with the extremely helpful Dr. Tatyana Gershkovich. She is the author of Art in Doubt: Tolstoy, Nabokov, and the Problem of Other Minds (Northwestern UP, 2022), and essays published in PMLA, The Slavic and Eastern European Journal, the Journal of the History of Ideas, the Paris Review, and more. Come along with us to understand the unreliability of the

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50:56

The Performance by Dovlatov

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2023/08/04

Show Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron dive into the short story “The Performance,” from Sergei Dovlatov’s book The Zone. Get ready to dive into the most underrepresented point-of-view in the Soviet camp system: the guards. Well, kind of. Get ready to get stagnant and talk a bit about the state of the Soviet Union in the 1970s, but mostly about a play in a prison camp where all the old Bolsheviks are played by prisoners. Ideological confusion abounds. Major themes: The real no-termers, dirty reality

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