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Half the List of Ships

Half the List of Shipswww.podomatic.com
Join host Mikhail Iossel every week for conversations with some of the world's most prominent writers and publishers. Mikhail's unique method of interview means you're not just hearing the same old tired answers. HLS gets right to the key questions and reveals something new about each guest.
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Sergey Kanovich (Rebroadcast)

Clouds like white whales -- or zeppelins, if you will, in the way of an uncomplicated jocular reference, considering the specific locale under discussion. Countless, they stand immovably above your head, as if watching you, coldly, dispassionately. The Baltic sky -- a gelled reflection of itself in the sea below -- is unlike any other you'll ever see. There is no way to describe it with any greater specificity. In a country too small to define its various geographic regions in terms of the old c...

Dec 12, 201553 min

Binyavanga Wainaina (Rebroadcast)

*This episode originally aired as Cosmonauts Avenue podcast #8 in March 2015* Binyavanga Wainaina is one of Africa's and the world's most recognized literary figures. He is a highly accomplished and multi-award-winning author, editor, publisher and journalist. He rose to prominence after his short story "Discovering Home" won the 2002 Caine Prize for African Writing, after which he founded the influential literary magazine Kwani? - the first of its kind in East Africa. Following the renown of hi...

Dec 01, 20151 hr 26 min

#1 Sergey Gandlevsky (Русский Язык)

*This episode is in Russian.* Sergey Gandlevsky is widely considered to be one of the most influential and eminent Russian poets of the twentieth and twenty-first century. A graduate of Moscow State University, Gandlevsky was a member of the 1970s group of poets “Moscow Time.” He began publishing his poems in the 1980s and today is one of the most published Russian poets in the world. He has received numerous Russian and international literary awards, including the anti-Booker Prize in 1996. He ...

Nov 26, 201553 min
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