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Podcast: The Cosmic Library
Episode: 6.2 Karamazov Season: The Fiction Machine
Description: In The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky puts ideas into motion, and into emotional conflict, with combustible results. The convictions he expressed in his nonfiction—religious convictions, for instance—join a mix that contains wildly different points of view, generating a book that encompasses more than the non-fictional Dostoevsky did. In this second episode of The Cosmic Library’s five-episode Karamazov season, we’re thinking about how that works. More broadly, we’re thinking about how fiction works.
“I’m, if not smarter, then at least more interesting as a fiction writer,” says the novelist Andrew Martin, “b...