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“The hyperreal is the real. The surreal is the real in The United States. We've reached that point. The absurd is the real. And so that's what I was trying to capture in the book.” — Ben Fountain Our absurdist-in-chief wants a $250 banknote with his face on it. But the satirist Ben Fountain gives the President something even more valuable. In his new novel Rasputin Swims the Potomac, Fountain delivers something quite priceless: a book that Trump deserves. In Fountain's novel, a sitting president, running for a third term, enlists a world champion professional wrestler, Grigory Yefimovich Rasputin, to help secure his re-election. Born Patrick Walsh Strickland in Buffalo, New York, Rasputin served in special forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, spent six years in a monastery, became fluent in Russian, and claims to be a real Russian monk. Evangelicals start defecting to Rasputin. A pandemic of “weeping sickness” sweeps the nation. It's almost as unbelievable as a sitting President wanting a $250 banknote glowing with his orange face. Fountain's parallels with late Tsarist Russia are hard to miss — the chasmic wealth inequality, the impossible get-rich schemes, the quack religions, the gilded decadence, the dying social classes, the mad politicians. It's scary stuff. Fountain says that we should even be careful taking his summer novel to the beach. Rather than Jaws-dropping, Rasputin Swims the Potomac, he warns, might bite us back. Maybe we should put Ben Fountain's face on that $250 bill. Five Takeaways •       The Hyperreal Is the Real: America Has Beaten Its Satirists: When Fountain sat down to write the book in early 2023, he was thinking about the blurring of the line between reality and fantasy in American life. Trump, throughout his career, has blurred that line to masterful effect. Fountain's question: what would be the next step on that continuum? His answer: professional wrestling — famously fake, scripted, and yet real, happening in real flesh and blood. Suppose a wrestler ran for president as his wrestling persona, with the fake baked in and everyone knowing it's fake. Suppose the country buys it. Because the hyperreal is the real. The surreal is the real. America has already reached that point. •       Why Wrestling, Not Politics: Jesse Ventura — “Jesse the Body” — ran for governor of Minnesota and won. But he ran as Jesse Ventura himself. Fountain's innovation: a wrestler who runs as his or her wrestling persona, with the character fully intact. Rasputin — born Patrick Walsh Strickland in Buffalo, special forces veteran, six years in a Russian monastery, world champion wrestler in Japan, legally changed name — never breaks character. He is the historical Rasputin, back from the dead, a holy man of the Russian Orthodox Church. Evangelicals start defecting to him because he's speaking their language. The fake is the real. •       Late Tsarist Russia and Contemporary America: Striking Parallels: Fountain read three or four biographies of the historical Rasputin. The deeper he got, the more striking the parallels. Late Tsarist Russia: extreme wealth inequality, get-rich schemes everywhere in St Petersburg and Moscow, quack religions and spiritualists plying their trade, extreme decadence among the upper classes. A social structure that could not be maintained. People's emotional responses to chaos. Fountain: not just in material terms but in terms of how people were feeling, the parallels to the United States are really striking. Gogol, not Baudrillard, is his natural ancestor. •       The Satirist as Realist: Andrew raises Baudrillard and hyper-realism. Fountain's response: he is a realist down to his bones. Whatever he does, it has to be anchored in some fundamental sense in the real world, as he understands it. American life has become such that the surreal is the real, the comical is the real, the absurd is the real. He didn't set out to write satire. He set out to write the story as genuinely and authentically as he could. The question of genre came afterwards, asked by other people. He is just a realist. It's just that American reality is Rasputin swimming the Potomac. •       Living in the Belly of the Beast: Dallas and North Carolina: Fountain lived in Dallas, Texas for forty-one years — what he calls the most American city of all, better and worse. In Dallas, the free market and capitalism are so much a part of daily consciousness that there's very little awareness that there might be different ways of living. Fountain: it's very conservative and very conservative. For someone to the left of Gandhi, his assumptions are always being challenged. He has to think about how he's thinking about things. That productive discomfort — not Brooklyn, not Los Angeles — is where this book comes from. About the Guest Ben Fountain is the author of Rasputin Swims the Potomac (Flatiron Books, June 9, 2026), Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (National Book Critics Circle Award winner, National Book Award finalist), Beautiful Country Burn Again, and Brief Encounters with Che Guevara (PEN/Hemingway Award). He is the recipient of the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, the Thomas Wolfe Prize, and a Whiting Writers Award. He lives in New Bern, North Carolina. References: •       Rasputin Swims the Potomac by Ben Fountain (Flatiron Books, June 9, 2026). Named a Best Book of Summer by the LA Times, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, Boston Globe, Newsday, and New York Post. •       Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain (2012) — the predecessor referenced throughout. •       Beautiful Country Burn Again: Democracy, Rebellion, and Revolution by Ben Fountain (2018) — his 2016 election nonfiction, referenced in the conversation. About Keen On America Nobody asks more awkward questions than the Anglo-American writer and filmmaker Andrew Keen. In Keen On America, Andrew brings his pointed Transatlantic wit to making sense of the United States — hosting daily interviews about the history and future of this now venerable Republic. With nearly 2,900 episodes since the show launched on TechCrunch in 2010, Keen On America is the most prolific intellectual interview show in the history of podcasting. WebsiteSubstackYouTubeApple PodcastsSpotify Chapters: (...

Lords: Aubrey http://glowhno.com/ Avery Topics: Every day since 1981 Yuri Borisovich Norstein and his wife Francheska Yarbusova have worked on their masterpice--an animated adaptaion of Gogol's short story The Overcoat. They couple is now in their 80s and will most likely never complete their film. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Overcoat_(animated_film) Video game urban legends https://vimeo.com/91436410 https://saint-arthur.tumblr.com/post/146680746144/riding-immortal-on-the-seeking-road Bay Area Airport Naming Drama The Only Animal by Franz Wright https://april-is.tumblr.com/post/89794820/april-25-2008-the-only-animal-franz-wright Microtopics: Loving only the parts you don't hate. Finishing the whole pack of Red Vines because you refuse to let them defeat you. An album you haven't put on Spotify. You know. Those podcasts. The sort of thing we don't do around here. Holding up cue cards so the guests know what to say. Reading all 180,000 messages in the Frog Fractions 2 ARG solvers discord. The tech company you're applying to sending you all the Enron emails, saying "review these before the interview" Mysteries, Easter eggs, and rose-tinted glasses. Hedgehog in the Fog. Arduous animation processes. Working on an animated feature by yourself for over 40 years. Great Family Entertainment. A story about a guy who has everything he needs who dies while trying to buy an overcoat. A huge pack of Red Vines that you and your wife have been eating since 1981. Burning yourself out very quickly if you don't put guardrails in place. Perfectionists throwing away years of work because it's not good enough. DJs who still spin vinyl and other artists who choose to do things the hard way. Enveloping yourself in an emotion. Refusing to break character for the entire time you're making the Youtube documentary. Putting away art you're having a hard time with and coming back to it later. Everything that happened between the Sigil Master and Austin Walker. Losing track of whether art looks good. The fine line between pacing yourself and torturing yourself. The statue in the background of Frog Fractions that turns red when you're on Mars. Encouraging people to have whimsy. Space Knight Rom. Snagglepuss the 1950s playwright. Back when you could make up a video game rumor and not have it immediately debunked. GTA San Andreas urban legends. Windows Movie Maker transition screens. Gravitating towards the unknowable. Self-destructing music. Scarcity and unknowability. Buying an album from the record shop and perusing the indie record label catalog that comes with it. Searching for the 16th colossus. Forming a small community and feeling communal with them. Playing games with a group of friends like a book club. An MMO full of ARGy type stuff. Automatically grouping people into a puzzle solving community. Being paralyzed by the sheer amount of information that you don't know. What's going on with the iGlyphs? Finding evidence of the Jejune Institute on a telephone pole. Painstakingly making the 7th Frog Fractions game, 45 years from now. The history of Seeking Mr. Eaten's Name. Game secrets that can't be ruined by one jerk with a decompiler. Sleep No More. Getting pulled into a secret compartment during an interactive play. Multi-city zombie larps. The Oakland Airport renaming themselves to the San Francisco Bay International Airport and then later the lawsuit becoming the Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport. Bay Area topology. San Francisco and South San Francisco. The Unincorporated Area of San Mateo County International Airport, or UAOSMCIA. American cities named after European cities. The Bass Pro Shop Pyramid in Memphis, TN. Filling a 32-story disco pyramid with sports equipment. Fry's Electronics. Another episode of Topic Lords where we read from Wikipedia. A huge empty building with paintings of Mayan gods holding torches that used to be an electronics store. One more way in which people forget about San Diego. The only animal that brushes its own teeth A monkey wearing a spacesuit trying to smoke a cigarette through the face shield. The only animal that smokes cigarettes. (Todd, who works down at the warehouse.) Meeting your estranged dad when at the awards show when you're both up for the same Pulitzer. Whether that fuckin' awesome monkey is a Bored Ape. Whether Google Image Search is making up images yet. That time Ryan North and his dog got stuck in an empty swimming pool and turned it into an interactive text adventure. By the time you've smelt it, they have dealt it. Topics are over!

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In questa puntata di Shelf. Il posto dei libri Alessandro Barbaglia, Eleonora C. Caruso e Marco Ballarè ci accompagnano nel mondo del dark web, delle parole del naso e viaggiamo fino a Cinecittà. Con loro anche Valentina Petri per parlare di cosa ci lascia lo studio e la lettura di Alessandro Manzoni. Scopri la puntata e dicci la tua: cosa stai leggendo o ascoltando?SHELF. IL POSTO DEI LIBRIDi Alessandro Barbaglia. Con: Eleonora C. Caruso, Chiara Sgarbi, Manlio Castagna, Marco Ballarè e Petunia Ollister.Realizzato da MONDADORI STUDIOSA cura di Miriam Spinnato, Elena Marinelli, Danilo Di TerminiProgetto grafico di Francesco PoroliMusiche di Gianluigi CarloneMontaggio e post produzione Indiehub studio

On his return as a lieutenant in a fancy military jacket laced with silver as well as possessing a St. George's Cross for bravery, Nicholas is treated magnificently. Nicholas gets used to it and develops an ego that leaves him open to being taken advantage of. The finances of his aristocratic family are brought out, noting how his affable father, Ilya, was bestowing a trove on his Prodigal son, as well as other celebratory events after remortgaging his estates. Illya purchased his son a fine horse that could enter races and also the most fashionable outfits. With his new look and demeanor, Nicholas would be seen at the elite social events. He also visited a woman on the boulevard…a fairly clear reference to a prostitute. He relished being home as a young man aware of the world.  He left behind childish things, such as once feeling disconcerted about sneaking around his mansion kissing Sonya. He also visited the historical English Club – a social institution started by English merchants around 1770 that gathered at various stately houses. Men used the Club to socialize, drink, gamble and make connections. Tolstoy, Pushkin and Nikolai Gogol were members. Gogol is a writer with Ukrainian roots, from a Cossack family, which both Ukraine & Russia claim as theirs. Like much of Moscow, Rostov's passion for the Czar cooled but he still expressed that there was something in his feelings for Alexandr that could not be understood by others. Rostov drifted even away further from Sonya, as Tolstoy expertly catches the nature of a young man who must have his freedom. He knew there were more women to know and Love would come later. It was now early March, and Ilya is arranging a dinner in honor of General Bagration at the aforementioned English Club. Ilya is presented as a long-time member.    This celebration for actually happened and it is important to recognize why. The reason was that Bagration was viewed as the saving grace of the recent war. Tolsoty reveals how the news of Austerlitz traveled. High Society had generally been accustomed to victories, especially from era of Catherine the Great & General Suvorov, where the triumphs were common over the Ottomans and Poles. On receiving news of the absolute defeat at Austerlitz – much of Moscow did not believe it or chose not to.  However, the truth could not be contained. When it spread, it had to be dealt with. Blame was cast on many, including Kutuzov. Many felt it was the general's age, health, and lack of ingenuity that led to defeat. More quietly blame was cast the Czar, by way of his youth, inexperience and trust in worthless advisors. Still, a good portion considered Alexandr as the “angel incarnate.” Most vocally, the Austrians were blamed.The public felt compelled to throw their support behind the army.  Some were singled out for having performed miracles of valor. The chief hero of was General Bagration, hailed for his effort at Schön Grabern and command of the rear-guard. It also helped that Moscow's new hero was a stranger to the City. Tolstoy has Shinshin (a quick wit and relative of the Rostovs) parody the master of satire, Voltaire by voicing, “Had there been no Bagration, it would have been necessary to invent him.” The original quote was “Had there been no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.” The Frenchman reached something profound in few words.   Tales of valor of numerous men were embellished and spread and characters like Rostov, Boris and Berg symbolized that wave. One may have saved a standard, another had reportedly killed five Frenchmen, while another was said to fight valiantly with an injury.There is a reference that nobody spoke of Andrei. Reports were that he was killed, leaving a pregnant wife with his eccentric father. Tolstoy references Andrei to symbolize the many, with such promise, who were wasted.This chapter plays up the elaborateness of the preparation for the event at the English Club, going through the choice of cook, food and entertainment. Nicholas jokes with his father that Bagration prepared less for battle at Schön Grabern. Ilya tells his son to go to Pierre's, invite him and obtain the best fruit – strawberries and pineapples, as they are not available anywhere else.  Anna Drubetskaya shows up and introduces the sordid affair that Pierre is affected by. There is a rumor that Dolokhov, who survived Austerlitz, is having an affair with Helene, Pierre's wife.  Helene, has always been presented as the type of woman who is a snare -- something of Delilah to the Biblical Sampson. She reveals that Pierre gave Dolokhov a place to stay upon his return and was betrayed. This has filled Pierre with a rage of biblical proportions.

On this episode, Dr. Riley Kirk welcomes Dr. Emily Gogol to the Bioactive Podcast to discuss the science, cultivation, and accessibility of cannabis from both a research and real-world growing perspective. Drawing from her background in biomedical science and her work leading Infinite Tree and Grow It From Home, Emily shares her journey from infectious disease research into cannabis farming, and how she applies data-driven methods to breeding, field trials, and terpene selection. They explore the process of developing stable, uniform cannabis genetics, the role of sensory evaluation (“the nose”) in selecting cultivars, and the importance of simplifying cannabis cultivation for home growers. The conversation also dives into practical growing techniques, including seed starting, drying and curing methods, and how to assess plant health and readiness. They discuss common challenges growers face, from germination myths and hermaphrodite stress to the differences between indoor and outdoor genetics. Additionally, they explore the evolving landscape of cannabis access, including home growing, seed distribution, and the impact of hemp regulations on small businesses and patients. The dialogue further highlights DIY approaches to cannabis as medicine, cannabinoid differences such as CBD, THC, and CBG, and the importance of education in empowering growers. Finally, they touch on the broader vision of making cannabis cultivation more approachable, sustainable, and accessible to communities nationwide. This is a conversation for anyone who wants to better understand the science behind cannabis cultivation, explore practical growing techniques, and gain the confidence to approach cannabis as both a plant and a tool for self-sufficiency. Chapters 00:00 Cannabis Is Just A Plant 00:53 Meet Dr Emily Gogol 02:45 From Infectious Disease To Farming 06:30 Starting The Oregon Farm 07:59 Recreating Sour Pineapple 12:50 Breeding For Uniformity 16:18 Field Trials And Data Systems 19:33 Terpene Selection And The Nose 25:52 Home Growers And Shipping Seeds 30:11 Simple Seed Starting Rules 32:16 Why Cannabis Feels Hard 37:58 Drying And Curing Basics 41:08 Vertical Basket Drying 41:55 Fast Dry Terpene Logic 42:28 How to Check Dryness 43:04 DIY Hang Dry Setups 44:19 Cannabis Is Just a Plant 47:12 Why Homegrow Wins 48:27 Outdoor vs Indoor Genetics 51:02 Hermaphrodite Stress Signs 52:58 Best Cultivars for Maine 55:44 Labeling Your Plants 56:45 CBD THC CBG Differences 01:03:08 Hemp Ban Business Impact 01:08:45 DIY Medicine and Scales 01:10:35 Where to Find Grow It From Home 01:12:40 THCA No Heat Tinctures 01:16:13 Seed Germination Myths 01:19:27 Packaging and Farewell Learn More / Resources Grow It From Home https://growitfromhome.com/ Want Exclusive Content and Ad-Free Episodes? Join the Bioactive Patreon community for as little as $1/month to ask guests your burning questions, access exclusive content, and connect with Dr. Kirk one-on-one: www.Patreon.com/Cannabichem Don't forget to like, subscribe, and hit the notification bell for more expert insights into cannabis science, plant biology, and natural products. Sign Up for Emails! www.AppliedPharmacognosy.org Keep up with Dr. Riley Kirk https://www.bioactivepodcast.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@cannabichem https://instagram.com/cannabichem https://www.appliedpharmacognosy.org/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 Czy Mikołaj Gogol miał polskie korzenie? Co łączyło go z Aleksandrem Puszkinem i czy naprawdę został pochowany żywcem? O zagadkach życia autora „Rewizora” opowiada Sylwia Frołow, autorka biografii "Zagadka Gogol".

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Az előfizetők (de csak a Belső kör és Közösség csomagok tulajdonosai!) már szombat hajnalban hozzájutnak legfrissebb epizódunk teljes verziójához. A hétfőn publikált, ingyen meghallgatható verzió tíz perccel rövidebb. Itt írtunk arról, hogy tudod meghallgatni a teljes adást. Jó-e bűnözőnek lenni? A fenntartható, környezettudatos drogkereskedelemért! Gödölyék, jerkék, ártányok. Kelet-európai identitásdrift Gogollal és Leonyid Brezsnyevvel. Csalódás Richard Bransonban. És a Mennyiségi Újságírás díjat kapja... 00:00 Tartalomjegyzék. 01:11 Nem is olyan jó bűnözőnek lenni. Rogán nyilatkozik. El Mencho és a mariachi. 05:15 Escobar is lehetett volna bármi más. Növekedési kényszer a drogkereskedelemben. A környezettudatos, fenntartható kábítószer-kereskedelem. 09:49 Közgazdaságtan és kábítószerkereskedelem. Dr. Schwab és kokain. 13:19 Újabb érdekes adatok Erdős Pál amfetaminfüggőségéről. Erdős Pál és Uj Péter találkozása, speed nélkül. A kis Terence Tao és Erdős Pali bácsi. 18:08 Budapesti ukrán verdák 2. - Kelet-európai identitás drift. Gogol és Zelenszkij ukránsága. 22:32 A hét autós üldözése egy érdi varsúti átjáróban. 26:52 R-Go gödölyék és jerkék. Mit mond Váncsa István? 30:20 Az MSZP temetése a Jókai utcában. A KDNP ügyesebb volt. The Jon Spencer Package Experience. Csalódás Richard Bransonban. 35:44 Jelentős mérföldkő az alapkő. Mikor lesz vasút Ferihegyre? 41:50 Putyinista sapkalevétel magyar iskolákban. Tankerülete válogatja! Peter Thiel gyermekeinek szkríntájmja. 47:20 Ki nyeri a Mennyiségi Újságírás Díjat? Bede Márton demográfiai cikke. Ne féljünk a vámpírhaltól! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

"Hepimiz Gogol'un paltosundan çıktık." Nereden Edebiyat'ın bu bölümünde yazarların "edebi paltosu" olarak karşımıza çıkan ölümsüz yazar Gogol'u inceliyoruz.

EPISODE #476-- We continue our belated celebration of Black History Month (and in many ways, is not every month Black History Month?) with the classic 1990's teen comedy HOUSE PARTY, directed by Reginald Hudlin (of the Hudlin Bros). We also briefly chat about John Ford's STAGECOACH (1939), Jasques Audiard's A PROPHET (2009), Peter Yates' BULLITT (1967), and FALLOUT, Season 2 (2026). LINKS-- Join the cause at Patreon.com/Quality. Follow the us on on Bluesky at kislingconnection and cruzflores, on Instagram @kislingwhatsit, and on Tiktok @kislingkino. You can watch Cruz and show favorite Alexis Simpson on You Tube in THEY LIVE TOGETHER. Thanks to our artists Julius Tanag  and Sef Joosten. The theme music is "Eine Kleine Sheissemusik" by Drew Alexander. Also, I've got a newsletter on Substack, so maybe go check that one out, too. Listen to DRACULA: A RADIO PLAY on Apple Podcasts, at dracularadio.podbean.com, and at the Long Beach Playhouse at https://lbplayhouse.org/show/dracula And, as always, Support your local unions! UAW, SAG-AFTRA, and WGA strong and please leave us a review on iTunes or whatever podcatcher you listened to us on!

This is final installment of the intellectually charged and hilariously honest conversation with special guest Antonio Michael Downing and the Everyday Black Men podcast consisting of Riker, Reed, Sham, The Rider, White Collar Suge, and the Black Libertarian. Together they take a deep dive into Black literacy, cultural legacy, and uncomfortable truths. The crew tackles why many Black Americans struggle with reading, linking it to slavery, survival, parenting, and a lack of cultural infrastructure — all while debating if white authors dominate the bookshelf too heavily. Antonio Michael shares how the King James Bible and his grandma's poor eyesight jumpstarted his love for literature, leading to a lifelong relationship with reading and soft hands. The conversation detours through spicy commentary on Kamala Harris, Jamaican cultural contradictions, and literary hot takes on Lovecraft, Robert Greene, and Gogol. With humor, heat, and unexpected depth, the episode challenges listeners to consider how stories are passed down — or left behind in Black communities.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/everyday-black-men--2988631/support.

Fluent Fiction - Hungarian: A Heartwarming Christmas at the Budapest Orphanage Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/hu/episode/2025-12-18-08-38-20-hu Story Transcript:Hu: A Budapest árvaház téli pompában áll.En: The Budapest orphanage stands in winter splendor.Hu: Odakint a hó lassan hullik, minden fehér, mint a kristálycukor a mézeskalácson.En: Outside, the snow falls slowly, everything is white like icing sugar on gingerbread.Hu: Bent édes fahéjillat tölti meg a levegőt, míg a gyerekek és a személyzet az árvaházat próbálják feldíszíteni karácsonyra.En: Inside, a sweet scent of cinnamon fills the air as the children and staff try to decorate the orphanage for Christmas.Hu: László, az árvaház igazgatója, gyengéd mosollyal a szívünkre.En: László, the director of the orphanage, has a gentle smile that touches our hearts.Hu: Bár kissé ügyetlen, mindig figyelmes és meleg szívvel gondol a gyermekekre.En: Although a bit clumsy, he always thinks of the children with attentiveness and warmth.Hu: Karácsony a kedvenc ünnepe, és elhatározta, hogy az idén mindenki számára igazán különleges lesz.En: Christmas is his favorite holiday, and he has decided that this year it will be truly special for everyone.Hu: Azonban most a dolgok kissé zűrzavarosak.En: However, things are a bit chaotic at the moment.Hu: Gizella, az okos és találékony gondozó, más megközelítéssel díszít.En: Gizella, the smart and resourceful caretaker, approaches the decorating differently.Hu: Kezében fonott kosár, tele csillogó díszekkel, mikor éppen megpróbálja eligazítani a plafonról lelógó girlandokat.En: With a woven basket full of sparkling ornaments in her hand, she tries to arrange the garlands hanging from the ceiling.Hu: A gyerekek körülötte viháncolnak, mindegyik segíteni akar, vagy legalábbis próbál.En: The children giggle around her, all wanting to help, or at least try.Hu: De aztán ott van István, a csintalan kis árva, aki mindig valami tréfán töri a fejét.En: But then there's István, the mischievous little orphan, who is always up to some prank.Hu: Ma felütötte a fejét az elhatározása, hogy egy kis viccet űz a szorgos segítőkkel.En: Today, he decided to play a little joke on the busy helpers.Hu: Egy lámpafüzért összegabalyított úgy, hogy azt azóta sem sikerült kibogozni.En: He tangled a string of lights in such a way that it still hasn't been untangled.Hu: A díszek?En: The ornaments?Hu: Pár törött, pár a fán látványosan félrecsúszott.En: Some are broken, others precariously askew on the tree.Hu: László az orra alatt mormogva próbál rendet teremteni.En: Muttering under his breath, László tries to establish order.Hu: "Ne aggódj, Gizella!En: "Don't worry, Gizella!"Hu: " mondja, kezét a levegőbe emelve.En: he says, raising his hand in the air.Hu: "A karácsony lényege a vidámság és a szeretet.En: "The essence of Christmas is joy and love."Hu: " Gizella csak elmosolyodik, és az egyik girlandba megpróbálja belecsempészni István megbontott csokiját, amit a fiú már félig megevett.En: Gizella simply smiles and tries to sneak István's half-eaten chocolate into one of the garlands.Hu: A gyerekek nevetése betölti a szobát, és még a legmakacsabb világítás is végül ragyogó fénnyel ég fel.En: The children's laughter fills the room, and even the most stubborn lights eventually blaze brightly.Hu: De az igazi kihívás csak most következik.En: But the real challenge is still to come.Hu: A látogatók hamarosan megérkeznek, hogy megnézzék, milyen szépen sikerült feldíszíteni az árvaházat.En: Visitors will soon arrive to see how beautifully the orphanage has been decorated.Hu: Ahogy a látogatók belépnek az ajtón, váratlanul minden fény kialszik.En: As the visitors step through the door, unexpectedly all the lights go out.Hu: Az áramszünet Gogolákcsként replikál, de László nem esik kétségbe.En: The power outage echoes like Gogolákcska, but László does not despair.Hu: Hirtelen ötlettől vezérelve, megkéri a gyerekeket, hogy együtt énekeljenek.En: Driven by a sudden idea, he asks the children to sing together.Hu: Gizella egy pillanat alatt csatlakozik hozzájuk, István hegedűvel a kezében bújik elő.En: Gizella joins them in a heartbeat, and István emerges, holding a violin.Hu: Az éneklés kezdődik, és a szívük zenél.En: The singing begins, and their hearts make music.Hu: A látogatók megilletődötten figyelik, ahogy az árvaház lakói egy bensőséges és őszinte előadást tartanak.En: The visitors watch in awe as the orphanage residents perform an intimate and sincere show.Hu: A hó lassan hullik odakinn, míg bent az emberek szíve melegszik.En: The snow falls slowly outside, while inside, people's hearts are warmed.Hu: A karácsony szelleme az árvaházban teljes pompájában ragyog.En: The spirit of Christmas shines in full splendor at the orphanage.Hu: László ráébred, hogy a legtökéletesebb pillanatok néha a legkaotikusabb helyzetekből születnek.En: László realizes that the most perfect moments sometimes arise from the most chaotic situations.Hu: A gyerekek minden mozdulata, minden dallama a szeretetet és az összetartozást hirdeti, ami karácsony igazi varázsa.En: Every movement of the children, every melody, proclaims the love and togetherness that is the true magic of Christmas.Hu: És a látogatók, bár talán káprázatos fényekre számítottak, mégis boldog mosollyal távoznak.En: And the visitors, although perhaps expecting dazzling lights, leave with happy smiles.Hu: Az árvaháznak sikerült elérnie, amit László annyira vágyott: a vidámságot és a békés ünnepi hangulatot.En: The orphanage has achieved what László desired so much: joy and a peaceful festive atmosphere. 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Do you know a boy who's taken a bite out of life? I suppose that description qualifies guest performer Eugene Hutz, a man of fire and energy whose work with Gogol Bordello has delighted audiences the world over. Eugene brings a jolt to the side two opener of Of Fungi And Foe in the form of guitar strumming (the only guitar on the record!) and unintelligible wailing mixed with what might be Ukranian phrases. Put some pep in your step with this track, and do something fun/wacky/thrilling. Get involvedInstagramFacebookEmailBurn your money 

Tonight, for this month's Snoozecast+ Deluxe bonus episode, and in the vein of our Spooky Sleep Stories series, we'll read the opening to “Dead Souls”. It was written by Nikolai Gogol and first published in 1842. It is known as a ghost story with no ghosts—unless you count the living. The novel follows the mysterious Pavel Chichikov as he travels through provincial Russia buying the legal rights to deceased serfs—“dead souls”—to use in a scheme for social advancement. Though often grimly comic rather than overtly supernatural, Dead Souls captures a kind of haunting unique to Gogol's world: one of moral decay, vanity, and the hollow pursuit of status. Our monthly bonus episodes—like this one—are made especially for Snoozecast+ Deluxe subscribers. If you're not a Deluxe listener, you'll hear a shortened cut of tonight's story; to get the full episode and more, visit snoozecast.com/plus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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rWotD Episode 3013: Moskvityanin Welcome to random Wiki of the Day, your journey through Wikipedia's vast and varied content, one random article at a time.The random article for Sunday, 3 August 2025, is Moskvityanin.Moskvityanin (Москвитянин, "The Muscovite") was a monthly literary review published by Mikhail Pogodin in Moscow between 1841 and 1856. It was the mouthpiece of the Official Nationality theory espoused by Count Sergey Uvarov. The literary section was edited by Stepan Shevyrev. Gogol's novella Rome was first printed in Moskvityanin, as were many Slavophile papers. In 1850 the magazine was taken over by a young generation of Slavophiles which included Apollon Grigoryev. Their object of adulation was Alexander Ostrovsky. The frequency of the magazine switched from monthly to biweekly in 1849.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:17 UTC on Sunday, 3 August 2025.For the full current version of the article, see Moskvityanin on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm neural Kajal.

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Daniela Di SoraVoland Edizioniwww.voland.itSarà Voland la casa editrice che inaugura la presenza di un editore ospite a Lungomare di libri, per portare la sua storia, il suo catalogo, i suoi progetti, le sue scrittrici e i suoi scrittori all'attenzione del pubblico.Voland nasce a dicembre del 1994 e pubblica i primi tre libri nell'aprile del 1995: gli autori sono Tolstoj, Gogol' ed Emilijan Stanev. Il marcato interesse per le letterature slave è da subito evidente, come dimostra anche il nome scelto, tratto dal romanzo Il maestro e Margherita, capolavoro del '900 russo di Michail Bulgakov.Animata dalla volontà di far conoscere culture e mondi affascinanti attraverso letterature poco esplorate ma di grande profondità, tra le proposte della casa editrice spiccano il bulgaro Georgi Gospodinov, raffinato prosatore e poeta tradotto in oltre 20 lingue, vincitore nel 2021 del Premio Strega Europeo; Mircea Cărtărescu, il più celebre autore romeno contemporaneo, che con Abbacinante. Il corpo ha vinto il Premio von Rezzori nel 2016; Serhij Žadan, salutato come “il Rimbaud ucraino”, tradotto in tredici lingue e vincitore, nel 2022, dell'ebrd Literature Prize e del Premio per la Pace dell'editoria tedesca conferito ogni anno dall'Associazione degli editori e dei librai tedeschi durante la Fiera del libro di Francoforte.. Nel 2018, in occasione del centenario della nascita e dei dieci anni dalla morte dello scrittore russo Premio Nobel per la letteratura Aleksandr Solženicyn, Voland ha pubblicato la prima traduzione integrale del romanzo Nel primo cerchio.Accanto all'anima slava, la passione per la narrativa di qualità ha reso possibile la scoperta di Amélie Nothomb, dal 1997 fedelissima alla casa editrice che l'ha lanciata in Italia. Il suo romanzo Sete è arrivato secondo al Prix Goncourt nel 2019, mentre con Primo Sangue l'autrice si è aggiudicata nel 2021 il Prix Renaudot e il Premio Strega europeo 2022, ex aequo con Mikhail Shishkin. Il catalogo Voland include voci mai scontate e dalle forti suggestioni: Alexandra David-Néel (di cui Voland si è aggiudicata la prima traduzione italiana della Sublime arte, appassionante caso editoriale rimasto inedito in Francia fino al 2018), Julio Cortázar, Georges Perec, Dulce Maria Cardoso (per la cui traduzione nel 2021 Daniele Petruccioli ha vinto il Premio Annibal Caro), Edgar Hilsenrath, Javier Argüello, Philippe Djian, Esther Freud, André Schiffrin, José Ovejero, Carol Shields, Brigitte Reimann, Moacyr Scliar, Carmen Martìn Gaite, Stanisław Lem, Karel Čapek, Milorad Pavić, Serhij Žadan, Aleksej Ivanov, Wolf Wondratschek, Matei Vișniec, Maylis Besserie (di cui Voland ha pubblicato L'ultimo atto del signor Beckett, vincitore del Premio Goncourt 2020 opera prima)... Il desiderio è sempre quello di offrire ai lettori narrativa straniera di alta qualità, curandone in modo particolare la traduzione.A conferma di questa sensibilità Voland ha vinto il Premio alla Cultura, assegnatogli nel 1999 alla dalla Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri “per la pregevole attività svolta nel campo editoriale”, e il Premio del Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, ottenuto nel 2003 “per aver svolto attraverso la pubblicazione di traduzioni di elevato profilo un importante ruolo di mediazione culturale”.Nel 2010, per festeggiare il suo compleanno, la casa editrice si è rinnovata facendo disegnare appositamente da Luciano Perondi una font battezzata Voland che da allora è utilizzata in tutte le edizioni.Da diversi anni, inoltre, Voland propone nel suo catalogo anche ottimi autori italiani fra cui Ugo Riccarelli, Giorgio Manacorda, Vanni Santoni, Matteo Marchesini, Ilaria Gaspari, Demetrio Paolin, Nicola H. Cosentino, Flavio Fusi, Valerio Aiolli, Paolo Donini, Simone Innocenti, Ruska Jorjoliani, Gianluca Di Dio, Piergiorgio Paterlini. Quattro di loro sono entrati nella dozzina dei candidati al Premio Strega: Giorgio Manacorda con Il corridoio di legno nel 2012, Matteo Marchesini con Atti mancati nel 2013, Demetrio Paolin con Conforme alla gloria nel 2016 e Valerio Aiolli con Nero ananas nel 2019.Il catalogo di Voland è suddiviso in quattro collane principali: Intrecci, storie e avventure da latitudini diverse unite al gusto di una narrazione appassionata e coinvolgente; Amazzoni, sferzante scrittura al femminile che mira al cuore e al cervello dei lettori; Sírin, che propone autori slavi; Confini, sulla narrativa di viaggio. A queste si aggiungono: Supereconomici, formata dai grandi successi Voland in formato tascabile; Sírin Classica, grandi autori russi tradotti da scrittori italiani; e.klassika, collana digitale in cui si inseriscono introvabili classici delle letterature slave; Finestre, che offre uno sguardo oltre la letteratura e di cui fa parte la serie delle Guide ribelli (Parigi, Barcellona, Roma, Venezia, Firenze, Berlino e Mosca).IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarewww.ilpostodelleparole.itDiventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.

Lucio Coco"Ucraina"Nikolaj Vasil'evič Gogol'Nino Aragno Editorewww.ninoaragnoeditore.itCosì Gogol' riassumeva Ucraina, lo scritto che viene proposto in questo volume: «Finora non abbiamo avuto una storia completa e soddisfacente di questo paese e del popolo che per quasi quattro secoli ha agito indipendentemente dalla Russia. […] Ciò mi ha spinto a intraprendere questo lavoro e a presentare in dettaglio nella mia storia in che modo questa parte della Russia si è separata; come in essa si è formato questo popolo guerriero, i cosacchi, caratterizzato dalla completa originalità del carattere e delle imprese; come con le armi in mano per tre secoli ha  ottenuto i suoi diritti e ha difeso ostinatamente la sua religione; infine, come in maniera impercettibile la sua esistenza guerriera scomparve, trasformandosi in una vita agricola; come a poco a poco l'intero Paese ricevette nuovi diritti in cambio dei precedenti e alla fine si fuse completamente con la Russia».Nikolaj Vasil'evič Gogol' , nato a Soročincy (1809), nell'attuale Ucraina, e morto a Mosca nel 1852, è stato uno dei maggiori narratori russi. La sua produzione letteraria spazia dal genere della novella (Veglie alla fattoria presso Dikan'ka, Mirgorod, I racconti di Pietroburgo), al teatro (L'ispettore generale), al romanzo (Le anime morte). Nell'ultimo decennio della sua vita Gogol' ha orientato la sua ricerca su tematiche di natura più intima e spirituale di cui i testi inediti di argomento morale e religioso, che si propongono nel presente volume, rappresentano la più indicativa testimonianza.Lucio Coco  è curatore di importanti edizioni di testi dei Padri della Chiesa quali Giovanni Crisostomo, Gregorio di Nazianzo e Gregorio di Nissa. Si è inoltre interessato alla storia della spiritualità cristiana, approfondendo quella russa, nel cui ambito ha curato la prima edizione del Meterikon nella versio russica di Feofan Zatvornik (Mondadori) e dedicando particolare attenzione al fenomeno dello jurodstvo nella sua declinazione femminile con l'edizione delle Sante stolte della Chiesa russa (Città Nuova). Particolare attenzione ha dedicato allo studio della tradizione gnomologica cristiana greca approntando l'edizione delle Sentenze di Evagrio Pontico, delle Sentenze spirituali di Basilio Magno, Isaia di Scete, Iperechio, Marco l'Eremita e delle Sentenze morali di Fozio (Olschki).IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarewww.ilpostodelleparole.itDiventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.

This story delves into Gogol's classic tale 'Sardony', focusing on the character of Akaky Akakievich Basmachkin, exploring themes of compassion, humanity, and the significance of tailoring in shaping identity and social status.TakeawaysGogol's 'Sardony' is a profound exploration of human compassion.Akaky Akakievich Basmachkin represents the struggles of the modest individual.The narrative highlights the importance of social status in society.Tailoring serves as a metaphor for identity and self-worth.Compassion is a central theme in Gogol's work.The character's journey reflects the human condition.Gogol's storytelling is rich with drama and emotion.The modest clerk's life is a commentary on societal norms.The use of cat fur symbolizes economic constraints.The conclusion invites reflection on the narrative's deeper meanings.ABC Mystery Time, initially broadcast in 1957 was a radio program that also went by several other names, including "Mystery Time," "Mystery Time Classics," and "Masters Of Mystery." This program featured dramatic presentations of mystery stories, as a weekly series. Being broadcast in 1957 places it within the Golden Age of Radio, a period known for its popular and engaging mystery and suspense programs that captivated audiences through sound alone.Gogol, Sardony, Akaky Akakievich Basmachkin, compassion, humanity, tailoring, social status, literature, character analysis, themes

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On this very special bonus episode of Lipps Service, Scott sits down with three of the six acts who will perform on June 4 at the historic New York City venue The Bitter End for our first-ever live event – LIPPS SERVICE LIVE! GET YOUR TICKETS NOW! JUNE 4 AT THE BITTER END https://tickets.venuepilot.com/e/lipps-service-live-festival-2025-06-04-the-bitter-end-new-york-e3febc?presaleName=lipps-service-live The live concert will be a reflection of Lipps Service podcast, as the night will bring together past and present NYC-bred music, including three legendary acts – Ed Kowalczyk of LIVE, Hamilton Leithauser of The Walkmen, Eugene Hütz of Gogol Bordello and Casa Gogol – and three of the best up-and-coming bands of the city's contemporary music scene – Jackson Hamm of Telescreens, Thesaurus Rex, and Torture and The Desert Spiders! To get fans excited about the live show, Scott talked with Ed, Eugene, who was accompanied by an artist under his label, Grace Bergere, and Torture in this special bonus episode. Starting with Ed, he discusses his early music days in NYC, shares a crazy story about the band's hit song “Lightning Crashes,” and lists his top 5 most meaningful lyrics and underrated singers. Next up, Eugene and Grace reflect on Gogol Bordello's rise in 1989 in NYC, and list the best punk bands from the city. To close, Torture tells the story of how David Bowie inspired her band name and her favorite artists in the current NYC music scene. Tune into this exciting and insightful episode of Lipps Service, learn about the artists, hear their thoughts on the upcoming live show, and get ready for LIPPS SERVICE LIVE! We hope to see you all there – you don't want to miss it! CREDITS (Instagram handles)Host @scottlippsEdited by @toastycakesMusic by @robby_hoffProduced by @whitakermarisaRecorded at Melrose Podcasts NYC Sonos makes it so easy to fill your home with incredible sound! Check out the new Sonos Ace headphones, which are Bluetooth-enabled and have three buttons. The content key allows you to play, pause, accept calls, and control the volume. Plus, they feature noise cancellation and voice assist!These headphones are exceptionally well done and sound incredible, whether listening to your favorite playlist, chatting on a call, watching a movie, or even recording a podcast like this one. They sound particularly fantastic when listening to Lipps Service!Sonos has great gifts for everyone on your list. Visit sonos.com/Lipps to save 20% on select products. Ed Kowalczyk of LIVE0:04:30 - Getting signed out of NYC 0:05:15 - CBGB 0:07:30 - “Lightning Crashes” story 0:10:00 - College radio 0:11:30 - Early lyrics 0:15:00 - Mixing in a defunct Playboy resort 0:17:00 - Drawing inspiration 0:20:00 - Meeting Kurt Cobain 0:22:35 - Collaborating with Peter Buck 0:24:00 - Top 5 most meaningful lyrics 0:35:45 - Top 5 criminally underrated lead singers 0:38:50 - What does this record mean to you? (The Velvet Underground & Nico)Eugene Hütz of Gogol Bordello and Grace Bergere of Casa Gogol 0:43:13 - The Gogol collective and touring 0:43:28 - Working with Rick Rubin 0:50:24 - 1989 in NYC 0:55:00 - Early punk rock1:02:05 - Top NYC punk bands Torture and The Desert Spiders1:04:52 - Band name story1:09:00 - Beginnings in music 1:16:22 - Top 5 local rock bands 

Where did Lord Byron and Percy Shelley come to sip coffee while they jotted down their verses? Where did Bizet and Berlioz go to discuss their work? Where could Casanova be found trying to pick up girls? Caffè Greco, where else? Having opened in 1760, Antico Caffè Greco is the oldest café in Rome and the second-oldest in all of Italy! And you can still go there and sit where Hawthorne, Ibsen, Gogol, Goethe, Canova, and many many other literary, art, and musical greats rubbed elbows and drank coffee. On this episode, we visit the famous café, grab some espresso ourselves, and discuss what it feels like to drink coffee in the same place so many brilliant thinkers over the generations did the same.   Hear this episode transformed into a bedtime story by Sleep With Me podcast's Drew Ackerman (aka Dear Scooter).   If you'd like to learn more about Literary Rome, download Tiffany's VoiceMap audio tour Rome for Readers, a self-guided walking tour that takes you past the residences of the most famous foreign writers who visited and lived in Rome.   ***Katy's sister Dana has recently been diagnosed with stage 4 agressive brain cancer. To help with the staggering medical costs—her specialist is outside her insurance network—as well of the costs of temporarily relocating to San Francsico for her treatments, please consider donating to her GoFundMe. Anything you can contribute will be extremely helpful. Thank you.   ***The Bittersweet Life podcast has been on the air for an impressive 10+ years! In order to help newer listeners discover some of our earlier episodes, every Friday we are now airing an episode from our vast archives! Enjoy!*** ------------------------------------- COME TO ROME WITH US: For the third year in a row, we are hosting an intimate group of listeners for a magical and unforgettable week in Rome, this October 2025! Discover the city with us as your guides, seeing a side to Rome tourists almost never see. Find out more here. ADVERTISE WITH US: Reach expats, future expats, and travelers all over the world. Send us an email to get the conversation started. BECOME A PATRON: Pledge your monthly support of The Bittersweet Life and receive awesome prizes in return for your generosity! Visit our Patreon site to find out more. TIP YOUR PODCASTER: Say thanks with a one-time donation to the podcast hosts you know and love. Click here to send financial support via PayPal. (You can also find a Donate button on the desktop version of our website.) The show needs your support to continue. START PODCASTING: If you are planning to start your own podcast, consider Libsyn for your hosting service! Use this affliliate link to get two months free, or use our promo code SWEET when you sign up. SUBSCRIBE: Subscribe to the podcast to make sure you never miss an episode. Click here to find us on a variety of podcast apps. WRITE A REVIEW: Leave us a rating and a written review on iTunes so more listeners can find us. JOIN THE CONVERSATION: If you have a question or a topic you want us to address, send us an email here. You can also connect to us through Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Tag #thebittersweetlife with your expat story for a chance to be featured! NEW TO THE SHOW? Don't be afraid to start with Episode 1: OUTSET BOOK: Want to read Tiffany's book, Midnight in the Piazza? Learn more here or order on Amazon. TOUR ROME: If you're traveling to Rome, don't miss the chance to tour the city with Tiffany as your guide!  

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“The Nose” may be Nikolai Gogol’s most famous short story. It’s a surrealist — and self-consciously, self-awarely surrealist — story about a man whose nose disappears from his face and reappears in another man’s biscuits. And other places. There’s a moment toward the end of Susanne Fusso’s translation when the narrator says, “The strangest and most incomprehensible thing of all — is that writers can choose such plots.” Well, yes. Nikolai Gogol was a 19th-century Russian/Ukrainian novelist and playwright. One of his best-known plays, The Inspector, opens this week at the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven. And that short story, “The Nose,” might well be intertwined with the mythology of our little public radio show. This hour, a look at the writer Nikolai Gogol. GUESTS: Susanne Fusso: Professor of Russian, East European, and Eurasian studies at Wesleyan University and the author of a number of books, including Designing Dead Souls: An Anatomy of Disorder in Gogol and a recent translation, The Nose and Other Stories by Nikolai Gogol Yura Kordonsky: The adaptor and director of the Yale Repertory Theatre’s production of The Inspector Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Given the shameful American sacrifice of Ukraine, there will be few timelier movies than Anna Kryvenko's upcoming “This House is Undamaged”,. It will be an Orwellian documentary examining the Russian destruction of Mariupol, the Ukrainian city devastated by Putin's invasion in 2022. Krivenko, a Fellow at the Artist in Residence program, Institute for Advanced Studies at CEU, explains how Russian authorities are rapidly rebuilding and selling properties there while erasing Ukrainian history and creating the big lie of Mariupol as a historically Russian city. Kryvenko, originally from Kyiv, also discusses the parallels between Putin's and Trump's lies about Ukraine, summarizing their fundamental misrepresentation of the truth as a "carnival of hypocrisy."Here are the five KEEN ON takeaways from our conversation with Kryvenko:* The Russians are engaged in a systematic erasure of Mariupol's Ukrainian identity, not just through physical reconstruction but through an aggressive propaganda campaign that claims the city was "always Russian." This reconstruction effort began shortly after the city's destruction in 2022.* Pre-war Mariupol was not characterized by deep Russian-Ukrainian divisions as Russian propaganda claims. According to Kryvenko, language differences weren't a source of conflict before political forces deliberately weaponized them.* The rebuilding of Mariupol has a dark commercial aspect - Russians are selling apartments in reconstructed buildings, sometimes in properties where the original Ukrainian owners were killed, and marketing them as vacation properties while ignoring the city's tragic recent history.* There's a humanitarian crisis unfolding as some Ukrainians are being forced to return to occupied Mariupol because they have nowhere else to live, with Kryvenko citing statistics that around 150,000 people returned to occupied territories by the end of 2024.* The filmmaker is using a unique methodology of gathering evidence through social media content, vlogs, and propaganda materials to document both the physical transformation of the city and the narrative being constructed around it, rather than traditional documentary filming techniques.Transcript of Anna Kryvenko InterviewAndrew Keen: Hello, everybody. As the situation in Ukraine becomes more absurd, it seems as if the lies of Donald Trump and the lies of Vladimir Putin are becoming increasingly similar. Trump has been talking about Zelensky and Ukraine, what is described as a barrage of lies. As CNN reports, Trump falsely called Zelensky a dictator. It's becoming more and more absurd. It's almost as if the whole script was written by some Central European or East Central European absurdist. Meanwhile, the Russians continue to lie as well. There was an interesting piece recently in the Wall Street Journal about Russia wanting to erase Ukraine's future and its past. My guest today, Anna Kryvenko, is a filmmaker. She's the director of an important new movie in the process of being made called "This House Is Undamaged." She's a visual fellow at the Central European University, and she's joining us from Budapest today. Congratulations on "This House is Undamaged." Before we talk specifically about the film, do you agree with my observations that there seems to be an increasingly eerie synergy between the lies coming out of Washington, D.C. and Moscow, between Trump and Putin?Anna Kryvenko: I think the situation is becoming more crazy and absurd. That's a better word to use in this situation. For me, all of this looks like some carnival of hypocrisy. It's unbelievable that someone can use the word "dictator" in comparison with Vladimir Putin or speaking about this 4% of the people who support Zelensky when he says it's only four persons. It looks completely absurd. And this information comes from Moscow, not from actual Ukrainian statistics.Andrew Keen: The phrase you use "carnival of hypocrisy" I think is a good description. I might even use that in the title of this conversation. It's almost as if Trump in particular is parodying himself, but he seems so separated from reality that it seems as if he's actually being serious, at least from my position in California. How does it look from your perspective in Budapest? You're originally from Ukraine, so obviously you have a particular interest in this situation.Anna Kryvenko: I don't even know what to think because it's changing so fast into absurd situations. Every day when I open the news, I'm speaking with people and it looks like some kind of farce. You're expecting that the next day someone will tell you that this is a joke or something, but it's not. It's really hard to believe that this is reality now, but unfortunately it is.Andrew Keen: Kundera wrote his famous novel "The Joke" as a parody of the previous authoritarian regime in Central Europe. Your new movie, "This House is Undamaged" - I know you are an artist in residence at the Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University - is very much in that vein. Tell us about the project.Anna Kryvenko: We're in work in progress. I was doing research in the archives and internet archives. This documentary film will explore the transformation of Mariupol, a Ukrainian city that was destroyed by the Russian invasion in 2022. I will use only archives and found footage materials from people who are in Mariupol now, or who were in Mariupol at the time of invasion, who were actually trying to film what's going on. Sometimes I'll also use propaganda images from Russia, from Russian authorities. In May 2022, Mariupol, after intense fighting, was almost completely destroyed.Andrew Keen: Tell us the story of Mariupol, this town on the old border of Russia and Ukraine. It's in the southeast of Ukraine.Anna Kryvenko: It's on the shore of the Azov Sea. It's part of Donetsk region. It was always an industrial city, most known for the Azovstal factory. In 2022, after incredible brutality of Russian war against Ukraine, this strategically important city was almost completely destroyed in May 2022 and was occupied by Russian government. About 90% of buildings were destroyed or demolished in some way.Andrew Keen: The Russians have essentially leveled the town, perhaps in the same way as the Israelis have essentially destroyed Gaza.Anna Kryvenko: Exactly. For a lot of people, we have this image of destroyed Mariupol until today. But after these terrible events, the Russians started this big campaign to rebuild the city. Of course, we know it was done just to erase all the scars of war, to erase it from the city's history. They started the reconstruction. Some people who stayed in Mariupol thought they would have new housing since they had no place to live. But business is business - Russian authorities started to sell these apartments to Russian citizens.Andrew Keen: I'm surprised Trump hasn't got involved. Given his real estate background and his cozy relationship with Putin, maybe Trump real estate will start selling real estate in Mariupol.Anna Kryvenko: I was thinking the same thing this last week. It was looking like such an absurd situation with Mariupol. But now we are in this business mode again with Ukraine and all the minerals. It's only the economical part of war they look at.Andrew Keen: He probably would come up with some argument why he really owns Mariupol.Anna Kryvenko: Yes.Andrew Keen: Coming back to the Wall Street Journal piece about Russia wanting to erase Ukraine's future and its past - you're originally from Kyiv. Is it the old East Central European business of destroying history and creating a new narrative that somehow conforms to how you want history to have been made?Anna Kryvenko: I was really shocked at how fast this idea of Russian Mariupol is repeating after two years in Russian media, official and semi-professional blogs, YouTube, and so forth. As a person working with this type of material, watching videos every day to find what I need, I'm listening to these people doing propaganda from Mariupol, saying "we are citizens of the city and it's always been Russian." They're repeating this all the time. Even when I'm hearing this - of course it was always a Ukrainian city, it's completely absurd, it's 100% disinformation. But when you're hearing this repeated in different contexts all the time, you start to think about it.Andrew Keen: It's the same tactics as Trump. If you keep saying something, however absurd it sounds or is, if you keep saying it enough times, some people at least start believing it. You're not a historian or political scientist, but Mariupol is in the part of Ukraine which had a significant population of Russian-speaking people. Some of the people that you're filming and featuring in your movie - are they Russians who have moved into Mariupol from some other part of Russia, or are they people originally from Mariupol who are somehow embracing their new Russian overlords?Anna Kryvenko: The people I'm watching on social media, most of them say they're from Mariupol. But you can find journalistic articles showing they're actually paid by the Russian government. It's paid propaganda and they're repeating the same narrative. It's important that they're always repeating "we were born in Mariupol" and "we want the city to be Russian." But of course, you can see it's from the same propaganda book as 2014 with Crimea. They're repeating the same narrative from Soviet times - they just changed "Soviet Union" to "Russia" and "the West" to "European Union."Andrew Keen: You grew up in Kyiv, so you're familiar with all these current and historical controversies. What's your take on Mariupol before 2020, before it was flattened by the Russians? Was it a town where Russian-speaking and Ukrainian people were neighbors and friends? Were there always deep divisions between the Russian and Ukrainian speaking populations there?Anna Kryvenko: It's hard to explain because you need to dig deeper to explain the Russian-speaking and Ukrainian-speaking parts of Ukraine. But it was never a problem before Yanukovych became prime minister and then president. It was his strategy to create this polarization of Ukraine - that the western part wants to be part of the European Union and the eastern part wants to be part of Russia because of language, and they cannot live together. But it's not true. For me as a person from Kyiv, from the center of the country, with friends from different parts of Ukraine, it was never a problem. I'm from a Russian-speaking family and have many friends from Ukrainian-speaking families. It was never a question. We were in a kind of symbiotic connection. All schools were in Ukrainian, universities in Ukrainian. We were bilingual. It was not a problem to communicate.Some of this division came from Yanukovych's connections to Putin and his propaganda. It was important for them to say "we are Russian-speaking people, and because we are Russian-speaking, we want to be part of Russia." But I have friends from Mariupol, and after 2014, when war in eastern Ukraine started and Mariupol was bombed a few times, it became a really good city to live in. There were many cultural activities. I know friends who were originally from Mariupol, studied in Kyiv in theater or visual art, and went back to Mariupol because it was a good place for their art practice. Ukraine is still a bit centralized, with most activity in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Lviv, and the big cities, but Mariupol wasn't a city with internal conflict. It's weird that so fast after 2022, people started saying it was always problematic in wanting to be part of Russia. It was never like that.Andrew Keen: It's as if I lived for a year in Bosnia before the civil war, and it was almost as if ethnicity was invented by the nationalist Serbian regime. It seems as if the Putin regime is doing or has done the same thing in the eastern part of Ukraine.Anna Kryvenko: Yes.Andrew Keen: You talk to lots of friends still and you're from Kyiv originally, and obviously your professional life remains focused on the situation. In late February 2025, what's your sense of how Ukrainians are feeling given what Trump is now saying?Anna Kryvenko: I think a lot of people in Ukraine or Ukrainians abroad are feeling lonely, that they don't have support. Again we are in this situation where you have big deals about Ukraine without Ukraine. You feel like nothing, just an empty space on a map with minerals or sea access. We're just sitting there waiting while they're agreeing on deals. That's the negative layer. But it's important for all Ukrainians to be together and speak about the situation. After Trump's words about the 4% support for Zelensky, there were statistics from last year showing 57-55% support for Zelensky. Today, after these few days, new statistics show 65% support.Andrew Keen: Zelensky started his political career as a satirical comedian, and it's as if he's participating in his own comedy - as if he's almost paid Trump to promote him. What about the broader take on the US? Obviously Trump isn't all America, but he was just elected a couple of months ago. Are your Ukrainian friends and associates, as well as many people at the Central European University in Budapest, taking this as a message from America itself, or are people able to separate Trump and America?Anna Kryvenko: This is a hard question because we always know that you have a president or representative figure, but that's not the whole state. I spoke with someone from our university who was in Pennsylvania before the election, and he said all the people were pro-Trump. The logic was really simple - "he's good" and "he will stop this war" - though people sometimes don't even know which war or which country. They're just repeating the same talking points.Andrew Keen: It's sort of Orwellian in the sense that it's just war and it doesn't really matter who's involved - he's just going to stop it.Anna Kryvenko: It reminded me of how everyone was repeating about Lukashenko from Belarus that "he's a good manager" and can manage things, and that's why he's still president - not that he's a dictator killing his opponents. They use this to explain why he's good and people choose him. Now with Trump, they say "he's a good businessman," but we can see how this business works. Today, someone from Trump's administration said Zelensky needs to stop being arrogant because Trump is in a bad mood. In what world are we living where this is used as an argument?Andrew Keen: Coming back to real estate, he probably sees Mariupol as a nice strip on the Black Sea, like Gaza, which he sees as a valuable strip on the Mediterranean for real estate development. I found an interesting piece online about the Russian invasion, "When Buildings Can Talk: The Real Face of Civilian Infrastructure Ruined by Russian Invaders." In a way, your project "This House is Undamaged" is your way of making buildings talk. Is that fair?Anna Kryvenko: I think it's the best description you can use.Andrew Keen: Perhaps you might explain how and why.Anna Kryvenko: This name "This House is Undamaged" might or might not be the final name. For me, it's important because after the first months when it started to be a Russian city, some people were trying to sell apartments just to have some money. The reconstruction started a bit later. They were using video websites like Craigslist. It immediately became Russian, part of Russian territory. People from different Russian regions who saw this opportunity were trying to buy something because prices were so cheap. People needed money to buy a ticket and go to other cities or to relatives. In every advertisement, there was this phrase "this house has no damages" or "this house is undamaged." You had to put it there even if it wasn't true - you could see pictures where one building had a hole, but they were still saying "this house is undamaged."Andrew Keen: It's just again coming back to the carnival of hypocrisy or the carnival of absurd hypocrisy - you see these completely destroyed homes, and then you have the signs from the Russians saying this house is undamaged.Anna Kryvenko: It was also interesting why some people from Russia want to buy apartments in Mariupol, in these reconstructed buildings with weird pro-Russian murals - it's like Stalinism. They don't even know where Mariupol is - they think it's somewhere near Crimea, but it's not the Black Sea, it's the Azov Sea, an industrial region. It's not the best place to live. But they think it will be some kind of resort. They're living somewhere in Russia and think they can buy a cheap apartment and use it as a resort for a few months. This is absurd because the city was completely destroyed. You still have mass graves. Sometimes they're selling apartments where they can't even find the owner because the whole family is dead.On Google Maps, someone made an alternative version where you can see all the buildings that were destroyed, because officially you can't find this information anywhere. People were putting crosses where they knew someone died in a building - entire families. And after this, people are buying their apartments. For me, this is unbearable. You can do research about what you're doing, but people are lazy and don't want to do this work.Andrew Keen: It comes back to the Journal piece about Russia literally erasing not just Ukraine's past but also its future, creating a culture of amnesia. It's chilling on so many levels. But it's the old game - it's happened before in that part of the world and no doubt will happen again. As a filmmaker, what particular kind of political or aesthetic responsibility do you have? People have been writing - I mentioned Kundera, Russian writers, Gogol - satires of this kind of absurd political power for centuries. But as a filmmaker, what kind of responsibility do you have? How does your form help you make this argument of essentially restoring the past, of telling the truth?Anna Kryvenko: A lot of filmmakers in Ukraine, with the start of invasion, just brought cameras and started making films. The first goal wasn't to make a film but to document the crimes. My case is different - not only because my family's in Ukraine and I have many friends there and lived there until my twenties. For the last ten years, since the Maidan events in 2013-2014, I started working with archive and found footage material. This is my methodology. For me, it's not important to go somewhere and document. It's more interesting to use media deconstruction from propaganda sources, maybe from Ukrainian sources also because it's a question of ideology.One of my favorite materials now is people doing vlogs - just with their camera or mobile phone going from Russia to Crimea or back. You only have two ways to go there because airports aren't working, so you go through the Kerch-Crimea bridge. Now because of Mariupol's strategic location, you can go through there, so you have two different roads. People from different Russian cities sometimes film their road and say "what is this, is it destroyed?" This is the average Russian person, and you can hear the propaganda they're repeating or what they're really thinking. For me, it's important to show these different points of view from people who were there or are there now. I don't have the opportunity as a Ukrainian citizen to go there. Through this method, in the near future when I finish this film, we can have testimonies from the inside. We don't need to wait for the war to end because we don't know how or when it ends. It's important to show it to people who maybe don't know anything about what's going on in Mariupol.Andrew Keen: Given the abundance of video on the internet, on platforms like YouTube, how do you distinguish between propaganda and truth yourself in terms of taking some of these segments to make your film? It could be conceivable that some of the more absurd videos are put out by Ukrainians to promote their own positions and undermine the Russians. Have you found that? Is there a propaganda war on YouTube and other platforms between Ukrainian and Russian nationalists? And as a filmmaker who's trying to archive the struggle in an honest way, how do you deal with that?Anna Kryvenko: Of course, there are many people, and Mariupol is the best example because the Russian government is paying people to repeat pro-Russian ideology. Sometimes you can see just an average person from Mariupol going with a camera and shooting something without speaking - this is just documentation. Sometimes you have Russian people there for some days just saying something. And of course, you get different segments of real propaganda from some ministry in Russia with drone material and big music. I'm always trying to question myself: What am I looking at? Who is speaking? On technical aspects, why is this like this? It helps me to be holistic.Of course, I'm from Ukraine, and sometimes this is the most uncomfortable - you can hear actual people from Mariupol saying something you don't want to hear because it's not your point of view on the war. But these are people really from the city giving some kind of realistic point of view on the situation. It's sad, but there were statistics at the end of 2024 that about 150,000 people were returning to occupied territories, not only to Mariupol but all occupied territories. Maybe 40% were coming back to register their property and then returning to Ukrainian territory, but many people are returning to Mariupol because they don't have anywhere to live in Ukraine. It's not hundreds but thousands of people. As Ukrainians, we're not comfortable with this because we're all in different situations. But if something's not comfortable for my point of view, it doesn't mean it's bad or good.Andrew Keen: It's an important project. I know your artist residency at the Central European University is finishing at the end of February. You're going to focus on finishing the movie. When do you think it will be ready and what are your ambitions for the finished movie? Will you put it online, in theaters? What's your ideal?Anna Kryvenko: If everything goes well, we can finish it in a year and a half because it will be a long process of editing and working with rights. We only started working on it six months ago, and it's starting to go faster. Documentary making is a long process because of funding and everything. Even though I don't need to go somewhere physically, it's still a long process with a lot of waiting. First, we're thinking about festivals, maybe a theater release, maybe we'll have some broadcasters because it's an important topic to show to a wider audience. After a year, we'll see.Andrew Keen: If "Buildings Can Talk" is the subtitle of this upcoming movie "This House is Undamaged," it's a really important project about Mariupol. Thank you for being on the show. I'm going to have to get you back when the movie is done because I can't wait to see it.Anna Kryvenko: Thank you so much. Thank you.Keen On America is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Anna Kryvenko (1986, Ukraine) is a video and fine art photography artist based in Prague and Kyiv. She is a Fellow at the Artist in Residence program, Institute for Advanced Studies at Central European University. She graduated from the Centre for Audio-Visual Studies at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU, Prague). Her films and performances were screened at Dok Leipzig, ZagrebDox, Visions du Reel Nyon, Fluidum Festival, Jihlava Documentary Film Festival, etc. With her found-footage film Silently Like a Comet, she won the prize for the Best Experimental Act at FAMUFEST, Prague (CZ), and a few others. Her film Listen to the Horizon won the prize for the Best Czech Experimental Documentary, Jihlava IDFF (CZ). Her first feature documentary film My Unknown Soldier won the Last Stop Trieste 2018 Postproduction Award, Special Mention at Zagreb Dox, the Special Prize of the Jury at IDFF CRONOGRAF, and the Andrej Stankovič Prize. Her newest short film Easier Than You Think won the Jury Award of the Other Vision Competition 2022 (PAF, Czech Republic).Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting the daily KEEN ON show, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy interview series. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children. This is a public episode. 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„Mantaua” (rusă: Шине́ль) este o povestire de Nikolai Gogol, publicată în 1842. Povestirea a avut o mare influență asupra literaturii ruse. Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé, discutând despre scriitorii realiști ruși, a spus: „Cu toții am ieșit de sub Mantaua lui Gogol” (un citat adesea atribuit greșit lui Dostoievski). Scriind în 1941, Vladimir Nabokov a descris „Mantaua” drept „cea mai mare povestire rusă scrisă vreodată”. Discuție înregistrată la 26 ianuarie, 2025. ▶DISCORD: – Participă la următoarele discuții din book club: discord.gg/meditatii ▶DIALOGURI FILOSOFICE: – Română: soundcloud.com/meditatii/sets/dialoguri-pe-discord – Engleză: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL…NYNkbJjNJeXrNHSaV ▶PODCAST INFO: – Website: podcastmeditatii.com – Newsletter: podcastmeditatii.com/aboneaza – YouTube: youtube.com/c/meditatii – Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/medi…ii/id1434369028 – Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/1tBwmTZQHKaoXkDQjOWihm – RSS: feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundclo…613/sounds.rss ▶SUSȚINE-MĂ: – Patreon: www.patreon.com/meditatii – PayPal: paypal.me/meditatii ▶TWITCH: – LIVE: www.twitch.tv/meditatii – Rezumate: www.youtube.com/channel/UCK204s-jdiStZ5FoUm63Nig ▶SOCIAL MEDIA: – Instagram: www.instagram.com/meditatii.podcast – TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@meditatii.podcast – Facebook: www.facebook.com/meditatii.podcast – Goodreads: goodreads.com/avasilachi – Telegram (jurnal): t.me/andreivasilachi – Telegram (chat): t.me/podcastmeditatii ▶EMAIL: andrei@podcastmeditatii.com

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Did someone say Russian folk horror? Well…if not, then WE DID! Join the 1001 by 1 crew as we break down the Gogol source material, the amazing practical effects, and the so-so acting? Does the vibe of this film work for all of us? Tune in to find out! Also, this week Britt recommends “November” (free on Kanopy), Joey recommends “Heretic” (currently on PVOD), and Adam recommends “Hell House, LLC” (available on Shudder). You can listen to us wherever you listen to podcasts! You can find us on Twitter: x.com/1001by1 You can find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/1001by1/ You can find us on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/1001by1.bsky.social You can find us on Letterboxd - https://letterboxd.com/1001by1/ You can find us on Facebook: facebook.com/1001by1 You can find us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@1001by1pod You can send us an email at 1001by1@gmail.com. Intro/Outro music is “Bouncy Gypsy Beats” by John Bartmann.

Merve Emre's Paradise Lost New Yorker piece, The Winter of Our Discontent by Steinbeck, Harold's Gogol piece, DFW, Tristram Shandy. https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod

Full ep and bonus hour: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod On the Krasznahorkai event, Dead Souls by Gogol, the Cormac article, Blood Meridian, Matthias Enard, the Gospels, and the problem of American fiction.

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! Was there a theme or meaning you wanted us to talk about further? Let us know in the comments below! Today we discuss "Gogol's Wife" by Tommaso Landolfi. Tommaso Landolfi Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoVbs9Qx8ng&list=PLHg_kbfrA7YAWXZg9RFIt7eByiKHG_BUd ✨Do you have a Short Story or Novel you'd think we'd like or would want to see us cover? ☕️ Buy Us a Coffee/Support my Channel!: https://ko-fi.com/thecodexcantina

Jake and Phil discuss Leon Trotsky's "Communist Policy Toward Art" and Gogol's "The Overcoat" The Manifesto: Leon Trotsky - "Communist Policy Toward Art" https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1924/lit_revo/ch07.htm The Art Gogol - "The Overcoat" https://www.fountainheadpress.com/expandingthearc/assets/gogolovercoat.pdf

Writer George Saunders on how famous short stories by writers like Chekhov, Tolstoy, Turgenev and Gogol are like miniature models of the world and how they can teach us to transcend our own limitations (R)

Josh returns! This week he and Drusilla go way, way back for the 1935 classic  Mad Love. From wiki: “Mad Love (also released as The Hands of Orlac) is a 1935 American body horror film, an adaptation of Maurice Renard's novel The Hands of Orlac. It was directed by German-émigré film maker Karl Freund, and stars Peter Lorre as Dr. Gogol, Frances Drake as Yvonne Orlac and Colin Clive as Stephen Orlac. The plot revolves around Doctor Gogol's obsession with actress Yvonne Orlac. When Stephen Orlac's hands are destroyed in a train accident, Yvonne brings them to Gogol, who claims to be able to repair them. As Gogol becomes obsessed to the point that he will do anything to have Yvonne, Stephen finds that his new hands have made him into an expert knife thrower.”Also discussed: The Feather Weight (2023), The Virgin Suicides, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Kirsten Dunst's Architectural Digest tour, farmhouse nightmares, Looney Tunes, Arsenic and Old Lace, Steve Buscemi, Body Parts, Drusilla's Peter Lorre impression, Lana Del Rey's alligator wrestler, Key Luke, and more! NEXT WEEK: The Substance (2024)    Follow them across the internet: Bloodhaus:https://www.bloodhauspod.com/https://twitter.com/BloodhausPodhttps://www.instagram.com/bloodhauspod/ Drusilla Adeline:https://www.sisterhydedesign.com/https://letterboxd.com/sisterhyde/ Joshua Conkelhttps://www.joshuaconkel.com/https://www.instagram.com/joshua_conkel/https://letterboxd.com/JoshuaConkel/ 

Graham Coath talks to musician Natisa Gogol. “Into The Wild” is a song about female empowerment and how feminine energy rules the world. Speaking of the primal nature that is within all of us, Natisa's passionate vocals soar over animated synths and an amazing beat. You can watch the music video at MUSIC VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzxGMYlAT4w #Music #Interview #Europop

I Rusland har litteraturen traditionelt spillet en kæmpe rolle. Dostojevskij, Tolstoj, Tjekhov, Gogol o.a. - var med til at forme den russiske nationale identitet og tegne billedet af Rusland i udlandet. I dag kan de færreste nok nævne bare tre nulevende russiske forfattere. Udsyn undersøger sammen med tidligere Moskvakorrespondent og Ruslandskender Flemming Rose, hvad der egentlig skete med den russiske litteratur. Hvordan kunne en så stor og rig tradition skrumpe ind til næsten ingenting, og hvorfor spiller litteraturen en så lille rolle for den russiske selvforståelse i dag? Vært: Kaspar Colling Nielsen.

A classic of Russian literature and one of the foundational short stories of European literature. Step into the absurd and captivating world of Nikolai Gogol's "The Nose," where the ordinary collides with the extraordinary in the streets of 19th-century St. Petersburg. This satirical masterpiece follows the bizarre misadventures of Collegiate Assessor Kovalev as he grapples with an inexplicable and surreal predicament that turns his life—and the city—upside down. Encounter a colorful cast of characters, from bumbling bureaucrats to eccentric barbers, all swept up in a whirlwind of confusion and social satire. Gogol's razor-sharp wit cuts through the pretensions of Russian society, leaving listeners both amused and intrigued. Prepare for a journey that will make you laugh, ponder, and perhaps even question the very nature of reality. In Gogol's world, nothing is quite as it seems, and the next absurd twist is always just around the corner. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dive into a riveting adaptation of G.K. Chesterton's masterpiece, "The Man Who Was Thursday," presented by Vintage Classic Radio as part of our beloved "Sunday Night Playhouse" series. Originally aired on September 5, 1938, by the iconic Mercury Theatre on the Air, this thrilling episode captivates listeners with its blend of mystery and metaphysical ponderings. Follow the enigmatic journey of Gabriel Syme, an undercover detective who infiltrates a dangerous anarchist group in London. His mission spirals into a surreal adventure that challenges the very nature of reality. Orson Welles stars as the dynamic Gabriel Syme, bringing his inimitable presence and intensity to the role. Supporting Welles, the cast includes Joseph Cotten as the cryptic Sunday, Agnes Moorehead as the passionate Rosamond, Martin Gabel as the fiery Professor de Worms, George Coulouris as the secretive Gogol, and Ray Collins as the elusive Marquis. Tune in to Vintage Classic Radio this Sunday to experience this timeless tale of intrigue and ideology, masterfully performed by a stellar cast.

Aleksandr Skorobogatov is the author of Russian Gothic, available from Rare Bird. Translated by Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse. Skorobogatov was born in Grodno in what is now Belorussia. He is one of the most original Russian writers of the post-communist era. An heir to Dostoevsky, Gogol, Bulgakov, Nabokov, Pelevin, and Sorokin--the surreal line of the Russian literary canon--his novels have been published to great acclaim in Russian, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, French, Italian, Greek, Serbian, and Spanish. He won the prestigious International Literary Award Città di Penne for the Italian edition of Russian Gothic, which also received the Best Novel of the Year Award from Yunost. Cocaine (2017) won Belgium's Cutting Edge Award for 'Best Book International'. His most recent novel, Raccoon, was published by De Geus in 2020. De Tijd has called Skorobogatov "the best Russian writer of the moment." He lives and works in Belgium. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi's email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch Twitter Instagram  TikTok Bluesky Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Penn and Joy discuss Jhumpa Lahiri's ground-breaking novel "The Namesake," a coming of age story of an Indian-American kid growing up 1st generation.  Watch Nikhil/Gogol as he grows up outside of Boston to discovering himself in New York City.  Gogol's experience resonates with first generation kids across America, especially the Indian ones! 

Episode 081: The Government Inspector by Nikolay Gogol Host: Douglas Schatz Guest: Patrick Myles Welcome to The Play Podcast where we explore the greatest new and classic plays. Each episode we choose a single play to talk about in depth with our expert guest. We'll discuss the play's origins, its themes, characters, structure and impact. For us the play is the thing. Vladimir Nabokov described The Government Inspector as the “greatest play in the Russian language”. Gogol's comedy of mistaken identity is an unexpected mix of fantastical farce and serious social satire. that has survived as a paradigm of political corruption and social hypocrisy in any age or place. As we record this episode a new adaptation of the play written and directed by Patrick Myles arrives on the London stage, and I'm delighted to talk with Patrick about this classic play and its enigmatic author.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsYou can't stick your nose up at the world if it's gone. Walter and Matt relive the Ronna McDaniel chorus, condemn absolutely all scissors imagery, and read Gogol's "The Nose." www.Racket.news

Last fall, George Saunders published Liberation Day, his first short-story collection in nine years. This week, we return to our conversation with the beloved author. At the top, we discuss his process creating the book (3:40), the influence of Chekhov and Gogol (4:56), and a timely passage on democracy from “Love Letter” (8:35). Then, we unpack how he builds stories (13:30), a guiding philosophy from our first talk (14:58), and an excerpt from the titular story, “Liberation Day” (21:30). On the back-half, we talk about the power of revision through “Elliott Spencer” (27:40), the seeds of the book's moving final story, “My House” (36:34), the ‘failures in compassion' it reveals (40:50), Saunders' enduring relationship with his wife (45:08), and how he hopes to continue surprising himself as a writer, at 63 (48:40).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.