Ostap Queries

David Cronenberg on Technology, Body and Violence

It’s the first time this interview with David Cronenberg is published in English. Excerpts were broadcast in Russian on Radio Svoboda in 2004.You can also listen on Spotify: and Apple Podcast, Google Podcast and other podcast services. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit karmodi.substack.com [https://karmodi.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

Cory Doctorow on Small Beating Big

It’s the first time this interview with Cory Doctorow is published in English. Excerpts were broadcast in Russian on Radio Svoboda in 2005. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit karmodi.substack.com [https://karmodi.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

Guy Maddin on Flirting with Taboos

It’s the first time this interview with Guy Maddin is published in English. Excerpts were broadcast in Russian on Radio Svoboda in 2004. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit karmodi.substack.com [https://karmodi.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

William T. Vollmann on Courage and Betrayal

This month is one year since I’ve been on Substack, but it’s only my sixth post here. From now on I’m going to publish an interview a month. At first, it’ll be old interviews with American, British and Canadian writers and movie directors I took in the 2000s for Russian media and never published in English. I have in my stock interviews with Cory Doctorow, David Cronenberg and others. After the old interviews will have been published, there will be new ones. This interview with William T. Vollmann was taken in 2006. A part of it was published in Kiev magazine SHO in Russian, but it’s the first time this interview is published in English. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit karmodi.substack.com [https://karmodi.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

Morten Ramsland on Sympathy for the Imperfect

Here’s an interview with Morten Ramsland, I took in July 2011. We talked about his famous novel Doghead, his childhood, Scandinavian literature and heroism, or the lack thereof. Parts of the interview were published by Radio Svoboda and OpenSpace (in Russian), it has never been was published in English. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit karmodi.substack.com [https://karmodi.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]