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LIT - Prague Books

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LIT - Prague Books

Guests: David Humphreys & Melissa Joulwan, Strong Sense of Place podcast

Prague inspires people, and some of those people write books set there. We take a look at some books about the City of 100 Spires as well as some Prague lore with David Humphreys & Melissa Joulwan, who run the Strong Sense of Place podcast.

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    • SECTIONS

    01:25 - Prague: the First Episode of SSoP

    02:39 - The Prague-Korea connection, living in a simulation, lighting Prague Castle

    07:25 - Why they choose the books, Prague Noir

    09:12 - The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain

    11:45 - Prague Spring (and more Mawer)

    13:43 - Gottland: Mostly True Stories from Half of Czechoslovakia, Slavic narrative styles

    18:27 - HHhH

    20:16 - More books about Prague all the time

    23:26 - Book shopping is fun

    24:32 - Books that Smudge the cat likes, This Is the World: A Global Treasury, cartooning around

    26:29 - We live in the future

    • Music by Fanette Ronjat

    More Info:

    • Strong Sense of Place podcast
  • FOLKS - Strong Sense of Place episode
  • SSoP Podcast Episode 01 — Prague: Castles and Cobblestones
  • LIT - Čas proměn' (Time of Changes) w/Mark Baker episode
  • Buy Čas proměn online from Albatros Media
  • Mark Baker's blog
  • Mark Baker travel guides on Amazon
  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
  • Prague Noir, edited by Pavel Mandys, Miriam Margala (translator)
  • The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sís
  • Prague Spring by Simon Mawer
  • The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
  • Mendel's Dwarf by Simon Mawer
  • Gottland: Mostly True Stories from Half of Czechoslovakia by Mariusz Szczygieł, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)
  • The Way You Wear Your Hat by Bill Zehme
  • HHhH - Laurent Binet, Sam Taylor (translator)
  • The Seventh Function of Language by Laurent Binet, Sam Taylor (translator)
  • "The Man with the Iron Heart"
  • "Anthropoid"
  • The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco
  • Prague: A Novel by Arthur Phillips
  • Prague in Black and Gold: The History of a City by Peter Demetz
  • Maps Special Edition by Aleksandra Mizielinska & Daniel Mizielinski
  • This Is the World: A Global Treasury by Miroslav Šašek

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