Podcast "Book Link"

“Literature lives thanks to serials, Dudya and Urgant”: Yuri Saprykin on the book results of 2020

What will this year be remembered for in literature? Why have series and movies become the main way to promote books? How is the super-popular "Queen's Move" related to the work of Vladimir Nabokov? And how can the philosophy of the Stoics and Leo Tolstoy help us in the fight against police brutality?

Sergey Lebedenko and Vladimir Eremin, hosts of the Book Link podcast, talked to Yuri Saprykin, a journalist, culturologist, head of the Polka project, about this, as well as about which books became the main ones in the first decades of the 21st century.

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00:40 The most popular books of the decade, why is there so much non-fiction about personal effectiveness?

06:05 And what are the best books of the 21st century according to the Shelf project?

11:04 Why has Nabokov become so popular and in demand lately?

15:58 Will the book industry die in the near future?

21:27 Why do we need literary awards?

27:50 Is it possible to say that literature lives only thanks to film adaptations?

32:02 Victor Pelevin and Vladimir Sorokin: what did the two main Russian writers come to?

36:00 Leo Tolstoy and police brutality. Why do people silently watch evil?

39:40 Stoicism and Ekaterina Shulman. Why do we need Stoic philosophy?