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.
- See a video version on our YouTube channel.
- Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our Buy Me a Coffee page!
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
For events in Prague, go to the Facebook page The Prague Haps
Follow us on social for extras:
Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt
- DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of the 2021 Silver Davey Award and AVA Gold Award, the 2020 Communicator Award of Excellence and on numerous top 10 podcast lists.
- CONSPIRACY CLEARINGHOUSE - A rather skeptical look at conspiracies and mysteries. Each episode will examine conspiracy theories, most of which are not true, a few of which might be a little bit true and even a couple that turned out, in fact, to be true. This is the podcast that dares to look behind the curtain that’s behind the curtain.