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Thomas Swick moved to Warsaw at the height of the Cold War. His newest book Falling Into Place is a memoir of his life behind the Iron Curtain, but it’s also a writer’s coming of age in the heyday of post-Watergate journalism.

We spoke about life in the Eastern Bloc, Polish films, and the ten sins of travel writing.

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