Summary: This episode and rsquo;s opening conversation celebrates literature from Eastern Europe: Daniel Medin, speaking from Book Expo America in New York City, is impressed with Mikhail Shishkin and rsquo;s forthcoming novel Maidenhair, and Scott Esposito loves Marek Bie and #324;czyk and rsquo;s genre-bending Transparency. They hope that Julius Margolin and rsquo;s memoir from the Gulag, Voyage au pays des Ze-Ka will make its way into English soon, and in the meantime they enjoy the biting humor of Éric Chevillard and rsquo;s Prehistoric Times and Demolishing Nisard. Finally, Contemporary Georgian Fiction, the latest in Dalkey Archive Press and rsquo; series of regional anthologies, provides a welcome introduction to writing from an often-overlooked country. Daniel Medin then speaks to Antoine Jaccottet, who founded the Paris-based press Le Bruit du Temps in 2008 and has since brought out an admirable collection of works in translation, collected works, memoirs, poetry, and philosophy.
