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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