Reading Envy 245: Looking Back at the Russian Novel Reading Envy
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At the end of March, a handful of us gathered to discuss what we had read for the Russian novel quarter of Reading Envy Russia. We also discuss the works we abandoned, some dips into Ukrainian literature, and talked more about what makes a novel quintessentially Russian. Thanks to all who joined in during this chat, in Goodreads, and in social media! Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 245: Looking Back at the Russian Novel Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via Stitcher Or listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed: The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People who Read Them by Elif Batuman The Anna Karenina Fix by Viv Groskop Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volkhonsky A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov, translated by Paul Foote The Aviator by Eugene Vodolazkin, translated by Lisa C. Hayden Laurus by Eugene Vodolazkin Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes The Mountain and the Wall by Alisa Ganieva, translated by Carol Apollonio The Hall of the Singing Caryatids by Victor Pelevin, translated by Andrew Bromfield War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy The Kingdom of God is Within You by Leo Tolstoy Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace Zuleikha by Guzel Yakhina, translated by Lisa C. Hayden I Will Die in a Foreign Land by Kalani Pickhart Brisbane by Eugene Vodolazkin, translated by Marian Schwarz The Orphanage by Serhiy Zhadan, translated by Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler Lucky Breaks by Yevgenia Belorusets, translated by Eugene Ostahevsky Life Went on Anyway: Stories by Oleg Sentsov, translated by Uilleam Blacker Other mentions: Ted Chiang Ken Liu Hanya Yanagihara "Men Who Explain Lolita to Me" by Rebecca Solnit on LitHub "Dead Soul" by Masha Gessen in Vanity Fair St. Michael's bells ringing in 2013 Related episodes: Episode 237 - Reading Goals 2022 Episode 241 - Feral Pigeons with Laurie Episode 243 - Russian Novel Speed Date Stalk us online: Reading Envy Readers on Goodreads (home of Reading Envy Russia) Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. You can see the full collection for Reading Envy Russia 2022 on Bookshop.org.
At the end of March, a handful of us gathered to discuss what we had read for the Russian novel quarter of Reading Envy Russia. We also discuss the works we abandoned, some dips into Ukrainian literature, and talked more about what makes a novel quintessentially Russian. Thanks to all who joined in during this chat, in Goodreads, and in social media! Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 245: Looking Back at the Russian Novel Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via Stitcher Or listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed: The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People who Read Them by Elif Batuman The Anna Karenina Fix by Viv Groskop Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volkhonsky A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov, translated by Paul Foote The Aviator by Eugene Vodolazkin, translated by Lisa C. Hayden Laurus by Eugene Vodolazkin Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes The Mountain and the Wall by Alisa Ganieva, translated by Carol Apollonio The Hall of the Singing Caryatids by Victor Pelevin, translated by Andrew Bromfield War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy The Kingdom of God is Within You by Leo Tolstoy Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace Zuleikha by Guzel Yakhina, translated by Lisa C. Hayden I Will Die in a Foreign Land by Kalani Pickhart Brisbane by Eugene Vodolazkin, translated by Marian Schwarz The Orphanage by Serhiy Zhadan, translated by Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler Lucky Breaks by Yevgenia Belorusets, translated by Eugene Ostahevsky Life Went on Anyway: Stories by Oleg Sentsov, translated by Uilleam Blacker Other mentions: Ted Chiang Ken Liu Hanya Yanagihara "Men Who Explain Lolita to Me" by Rebecca Solnit on LitHub "Dead Soul" by Masha Gessen in Vanity Fair St. Michael's bells ringing in 2013 Related episodes: Episode 237 - Reading Goals 2022 Episode 241 - Feral Pigeons with Laurie Episode 243 - Russian Novel Speed Date Stalk us online: Reading Envy Readers on Goodreads (home of Reading Envy Russia) Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. You can see the full collection for Reading Envy Russia 2022 on Bookshop.org.