LIT - Prague Books

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: Facebook Twitter YouTube Instagram 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.