Prague Times10 Feb 2022

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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