Latest Episodes
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Life and Fate with Robert Chandler
Translator Robert Chandler joins us to discuss his journey with Vasily Grossman, Stalingrad versus Life and Fate, and Grossman's representation of totalitarianism.
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Teaser: "Christmas Every Day" by William Dean Howells
The Patreon gets festive this December by discussing a classic Christmas short story from a Kassia favorite, William Dean Howells. We wrap up the...
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Rock Crystal by Adalbert Stifter
Dylan and Kassia gather around the hearth to discuss Adalbert Stifter's Rock Crystal, a Christmassy novella translated from German by Elizabeth Mayer and Marianne...
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Teaser: The Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo
In this clip, Kassia and Dylan how Victor Hugo's Guernsey compares to the Guernsey of Ebenezer le Page and the use of essayistic digressions...
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The Book of Ebenezer Le Page with Matt Tannenbaum
In this episode, Matt Tannenbaum, proprietor of Lenox, Massachusetts' The Bookstore and focus of the documentary Hello, Bookstore, joins us to discuss The Book...
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Teaser: The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
We paired last month's NYRB Classic, The Golovlyov Family, with another Russian classic on the Patreon, The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov, and compare...