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Magic Lessons Ep. 205: “Call Your Real Life By Its True Name” featuring Gary Shteyngart
Magic Lessons with Elizabeth Gilbert
A Russian Story Teller, a Russian Story Telling Expert, 'Otratit'
i have a magic lessons tradition here, which is that i usually call somebody in for another expert opinion. Ah, and so i'm calling in this novelist named gerry shein art, who i love so much,. And he just wrote this memoir. A um, he's russian, and that was the nickname that his father gave him when he was a child. M and you know, there's a big intersection, i think, am between russian story telling and irish story telling. That big intersection essentially goes like this, how much worse can things get, and how much funnier and more tragic and great can we make the story once we tell it? So those are
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