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• XLIX. The Most Righteous and Appalling: Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich von Kleist

  This week welcomes back to the pod Heinrich von Kleist and perhaps his most famous novella, "Michael Kohlhaas"! Niko and Tatiana discuss justice, certainty, and doubt in a story that even Kafka read with "true piety" 

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• XLVIII. The Ways of White Folks: Passing by Langston Hughes

  This week Niko and Tatiana return to the Harlem Renaissance and discuss Langston Hughes's short story "Passing" from the collection The Ways of White Folks. They discuss identity, economic freedom, patronage, and the Kendrick-Drake feud. 

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• XLVII. The Misfit and the Grandmother: A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor

  Niko and Tatiana discuss Flannery O'Connor's iconic short story "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" with special guest Sophie.

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• XLVI. Touching Grass Is Not Enough: When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà

  Spooky Season has come and gone but we're still talking about witches on the podcast. Niko and Tatiana read When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà, translated from its original Catalan. Each chapter of the novel is told from a different narrator to weave a story crossing generations and mountain ranges. We discuss the Pyrenees, trauma, and the relationship between nature and poetry. 

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• XLV. Waves of Violence: Barn Burning by William Faulkner

  Welcome back to the pod, William Faulkner! This week, Tatiana and Niko read the short story "Barn Burning," originally published in Harper's Magazine in 1939. They discuss cycles of violence within the structures of family, history, and class, make comparisons to Juan Rulfo, and try to figure out why so many people love American Southern Gothic literature. 

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