polish literature

Bar Talk (our recommendations):
Jessica is reading Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin; drinking a Burnside Oregon Oaked Bourbon.
Damien is reading Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward; drinking a Ardbeg Islay Single Malt.
Ryan is reading Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt; drinking a Fistful of Bourbon.

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Up next: "Poor Lucy Rivers" by Bernard Capes.

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B04-E02 | This week, we create a small crisis when we taunt a wyvern dressed as a basilisk, run for our lives from ghost riders in the sky, and reunite our estranged parents as we recap Chapter Two of Time of Contempt. Along the way, we'll follow our hearts and advice from our drunk aunts. Just remember: Don't grieve for the cabbage when the forest is burning. 

[Wine talk and tangents begin at 01:13:42. Skip ahead to the analysis at 01:28:42]

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Read along with us by picking up Time of Contempt, by Andrzej Sapkowski at a book store near you.

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In the first episode of the Notes from Poland podcast, Stanley Bill talks to Jennifer Croft, the award-winning American translator of Poland's new Nobel laureate, Olga Tokarczuk.

In an in-depth interview with Jennifer Croft, Stanley Bill asks about Olga Tokarczuk's Nobel triumph; the masterpiece The Books of Jacob, which Jennifer is currently translating into English; the earlier novel Flights, for which Jennifer and Tokarczuk won the International Booker Prize in 2018; Jennifer's own writing, including her recently published memoir Homesick; the relation between writing and translation; and Jennifer's path into Polish culture.

Producer: Sebastian Leśniewski