In this episode we talking about Alexander Pushkin's strange pride in his African sensuality, the difficulty of mourning, and nostalgia for sleepovers. Give a listen as we shoot the shit.

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Text: George Gibian ed., The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader (New York, NY: Penguin, 1993), 1.