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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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54:11

War and Peace p.2 (Book 1, Part 2)

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2023/01/20

Show Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron turn to the war part of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace in Part II of Book 1. Grab your field rations and greatcoats as we follow Andrei, Nikolai, and company into battle with the French. And although this seems to be the opposite…perhaps the battles parallel the “peace” of Moscow society more than it first appears. You’ll have to tune in to find out.Interested in the video version of this podcast? Find it ⁠here⁠.Major themes: Strawberry-Flavored Koumiss, Luck,

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63:15

War and Peace p.1 (Book 1, Part 1)

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2023/01/13

Show Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron kick off their longest series ever: Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace. This episode they’ll be reading Part 1 of Book 1 (don’t worry there are only four books and two epilogues) and get into the nitty gritty of peace. But at risk of engaging with too many clichés, the maneuvers of peace (and mostly the soiree) can be just as complex as war. Grab your koumiss and tune in!Interested in the video version of this podcast? Find it ⁠here⁠.Major themes: Big Heineken,

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48:12

Chekhov Becomes Chekhov (w/ Author Bob Blaisdell)

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2023/01/06

Show Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron sit down with author Bob Blaisdell to talk about his new book Chekov Becomes Chekov: The Emergence of a Literary Genius. Bob was a wonderful person to chat with and learn from - and we hope you all take as much away from the conversation as we did.Bob Blaisdell is Professor of English at the City University of New York’s Kingsborough Community College and also the author of Creating Anna Karenina. He is a reviewer for the the Los Angeles Review of Books,

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31:11

Bonus 10 - 2 Years of Tipsy Tolstoy and BIG ANNOUNCEMENT

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2022/12/09

Shownotes:This week, Matt and Cameron discuss the imminent future of the podcast and spend some time reflecting on two years of Tipsy Tolstoy.03:41 - Our Linktree. Find the link to our Discord there.05:51 - Third Space Theory 20:53 - Find our TikTok here, now with content!21:35 - I’ve been informed by some TikTok users that this is simply called an “audio.” Fascinating.The music used in this episode was “soviet march,” by Toasted Tomatoes. You can find more of their work on Bandcamp and Youtube.Our

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37:13

Robert Chandler Talks Stalingrad and Translation

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2022/11/25

Show Notes: This week, Matt and Cameron sit down with Robert Chandler, a prolific translator of many authors including our own beloved Grossman. Robert Chandler’s translations from Russian, mostly for NYRB Classics and Vintage Classics, include works by Alexander Pushkin and Nikolay Leskov; collections of stories and memoirs by Teffi; and novels and stories by Vasily Grossman, Andrey Platonov and Hamid Ismailov. He is the main translator of three anthologies of Russian literature for Penguin

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36:15

The Shot by Pushkin

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2022/11/11

Show Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron bring you a shorter one (finally)! They’ll be covering - at long, long last - “The Shot” by Aleksandr Pushkin. Tune in to hear stories of officer intrigue, duels fought and left unfought, and the existential terror of being cornered at a party by the a dude whose main hobby is shooting handguns into his own wall. Switch out the beer for a kvass or water for this one because - say it with me - alcohol and firearms don’t mix. Enjoy!Major themes: Psychological

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40:00

The Sistine Madonna by Grossman

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2022/11/04

Show Notes: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 religious analogies and tune in!Major themes: Non-religious Christianity, Aesthetic

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91:32

Stalingrad p.10 by Grossman

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2022/10/21

Show Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron finish up Vasily Grossman’s Stalingrad as we close the story of Rodimtsev’s embattled Guards Regiment in the city of Stalingrad and close out (for now!) the stories of the people we’ve been following for months now. We’ll be talking about Feminist perspectives on the work, de-mythologization of warfare, and spending some time drinking our feelings out about our favorite character, Pyotr Vavilov. Grab your copy of Stalingrad, your preferred celebratory drink,

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80:27

Stalingrad p.9 by Grossman

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2022/10/21

Show Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron close in on the end of Vasily Grossman’s Stalingrad and talk about the actual battle in the city. We jump around from the Soviet reinforcements crossing the Volga to Wehrmacht soldiers celebrating their victory a little too early. As always, the story of war is really the story of the humans there and Grossman will never let us forget that. Find some looted booze and tune in!Major themes: Byzantium Marxism and Postmodernism Oh My!, Political alienation, The

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62:10

Stalingrad p.8 by Grossman

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2022/10/07

Show Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron continue on to the Third and Final part of Vasily Grossman’s Stalingrad! After 800 pages, we finally approach…the Battle of Stalingrad. Well, the best things come to those who wait. Grab your wartime moonshine of preference, get a move on toward the city, and don’t forget to tune in!Major themes: Labyrinth of plots but make it depressing, Defamiliarization in art, The Origin of Tomatoes00:51 - Check out Puppet Combo’s Night Shit! Since it’s now October (if,

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84:33

Stalingrad p.7 by Grossman

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2022/09/23

Show Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron finish out Part 7 of Stalingrad, learning more about the emotional aftermath of the Shaposhnikov family and friends’ losses - and, naturally, are introduced to an entirely new character. It’s time to learn about coal mining, babey. Grab your helmet-mounted flashlight, a boring tool, and get ready to get deep into some soot.Major themes: Tank Corps time babey, Legendary pettiness, Grossman’s Cement,06:24 *sister for being bad at art10:45 - Vasily Grossman and

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76:43

Stalingrad p.6 by Grossman

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2022/09/09

Show Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron finally arrive to the subject of the book Stalingrad - which is, of course, the actual battle of Stalingrad. It only took us a breezy 500 pages to get here. Oh! But I forgot - we have about 50 more pages of the war from the German perspective first. Grossman doesn’t let you have anything easily. Get your drink, find shelter from the bombs, and tune in!Major themes: Sponsored by water, Perspectives on Nazi-era Germany,08:57 - Some examples from our much maligned

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83:18

Stalingrad p.5 by Grossman

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2022/09/02

Show Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron get a little over halfway into Grossman’s Stalingrad, covering more themes from the homefront - spending more time with Pavel Andreyev the factory worker and Marusya Shaposhnikova, organizational investigator. Learn a little more about the place of art in the USSR and how every unhappy family is unlike in their own way in Part 5 of our series on Stalingrad. Grab your thoughts on the two truths, sit down, and tune in!Major themes: Cement 2: Grossman Boogaloo,

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90:05

Stalingrad p.4 by Grossman

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2022/08/19

Show Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron dive back into the family life of the Shaposhnikovs, so we’ll call this episode “Mothers and Daughters.” Also…well, Viktor meets someone on the side in Moscow. We’ll see how that goes. Grab your drink of choice when family dinner is getting contentious and tune in!Major themes: Cowboy movies and Soviet Literature, x, r/menwritingwomen14:40 - It is in fact the largest tank battle of all time! All in all, there were 8,000 tanks involved, not counting troops,

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77:24

Stalingrad p.3 by Grossman

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2022/08/12

Show Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron continue on with the set-up to the siege of Stalingrad, following more of Viktor Shtrum as well as Commissar Nikolai Krymov in their respective adventures in Moscow and on the Eastern Front. We’ll be getting into the nitty-gritty on the idea of Grossman as a “soviet Tolstoy” so grab your finest wartime moonshine and tune in to hear our incendiary hot takes!Major themes: Soviet Tolstoy(?), Genuflecting Grossmans, What Makes the Soviet Union? Take a look at our

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70:43

Stalingrad p.2 by Grossman

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2022/08/05

Show Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron continue to dig their trench and get ready for the oncoming siege of Stalingrad in Part 2 of their 10 Part series on Stalingrad. We’ll be learning a little more about Grossman’s life and will follow Grossman’s masterful depiction of the first years of World War 2 on Soviet territory. Get the hidden moonshine out of the cellar, fry up the last of the Doktorskaya kalbasa, and tune in!Major themes: Erasure of civilians in war, Call of Duty, Ideology and

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73:34

Stalingrad p.1 by Vasily Grossman

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2022/07/22

Show Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron kick off their biggest podcast series ever with one of the most obscure choices possible for such a venture: Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman. Stalingrad is the first book in a dilogy, followed by the much more famous Life and Fate, which covers the siege of the city of Stalingrad by the German Wehrmacht in World War 2. We’re going to be dealing with a whole cast of characters here and their varied experiences of the war so get a pencil and paper, get ready to

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66:08

Envy by Olesha (w/ Dr. José Vergara)

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2022/07/08

Show Notes:Follow Dr. Vegara’s twitter here, check out his website, and don’t forget to pick up a copy of his new book, All Future Plunges to the Past: James Joyce in Russian Literature. This week, Matt and Cameron are joined by Dr. José Vergara to talk about - drum roll please - two books: Envy by Yuri Olesha as well as All Future Plunges to the Past: James Joyce in Russian Literature by Dr. Vergara. We had a wonderful chance to go over the plot of a neurotic would-be clerk in Envy, while also

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31:12

Bonus 9 - State of the Podcast

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2022/06/27

Show Notes:Check out our illustrator Caryoln's Instagram, YouTube, and portfolio!This week, Matt and Cameron talk though some updates for the podcast and reflect on the journey that's taken them here.The music used in this episode was “bella ciao,” by Toasted Tomatoes. You can find more of their work on Bandcamp and Youtube.Our links: Website | ⁠Discord⁠ Socials: ⁠Instagram⁠ | ⁠Twitter⁠ | ⁠Facebook

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63:28

The Orchard (w/ Author Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry)

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2022/06/24

Show Notes:Kristina's Website, The OrchardThis week, Matt and Cameron do something a little unusual - for once, they’re intentionally talking around a work rather than examining it in detail. That’s because - in a Tipsy Tolstoy first - we’re being joined by the author of The Orchard, Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry. We had a wide-ranging conversation that covers her journey as an author, the inspirations and thoughts that led to The Orchard in its current form, as well as what’s next for

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