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Lucky Breaks by Yevgenia Belorusets & The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
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- The Slavic Literature Pod
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- Aug 8, 2025
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- 4409
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Show Notes : This week, Cameron talks about unreliable narrators in Yevgenia Belorusets’ Lucky Breaks and Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried , posing an unusual argument: what if lying to your reader was a good thing? Belorusets is a Ukrainian writer whose work focuses on the people marginalized by society and takes that eye toward the East, writing stories of women from the Donbas region after war broke out in 2014. Her work brings a light to stories often left untold — and even poses questions about the morality of doing so. Yevgenia Belorusets’ website “The Complaint Against Language” in Wartime Ukraine: A Conversation with Yevgenia Belorusets, interview by Eugene Ostashevsky Yevgenia Belorusets Focus On Ukraine, Creative Horizons (video, 2024) One Day More — Yevgenia Belorusets’ visit to Brussels The music used in this episode was “Старое Кино / Staroye Kino,” by Перемотка / Peremotka. You can find more of their work on Bandcamp and Youtube . Our links: Website | Discord Socials: Instagram | BlueSky | Twitter | Facebook Questions, comments, want to hear your voice on a bonus episode? Send us an email at [email protected] . Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands