RADIO FREE KRAKOW: The Kościuszko Interview
Satirist Michal Karski imagines what General Tadeusz Kościuszko would have to say about a recent censorship bill by the Polish government
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Arts & Letters
RADIO FREE KRAKOW: A Satirical Summer Playlist
Your DJ Michelin Man (aka ‘Fatboy’ Karski’) brings you the hottest political hits to jam to during the dog days of democr— er, summer in Poland!
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Fiction: “I Came, I Saw, I Ate Obwarzanki”: The Roman Origins of Krakow
Fake news from Michal Karski, who interviewed noted Herzoslovakian Professor Vimislav Estrafalario on Krakow’s founding by a bicycling ancient Roman
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Short Fiction: “Wildcat”
“Wind, there was wind everywhere, going through everything and bedding everywhere it wanted to, a hot day it was….”
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Prose: Imagining Jutta
Meet Jutta Molak. She’s in the 8th grade, a pallid girl with ponytail whose pastimes include catching up on homework and studying for exams.
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What Wojtek Did Next: A Beer-Drinking Bear in Paradise
The Krakow Post has gained exclusive access to the celestial diary which Wojtek, the Soldier Bear who aided Polish troops in WWII, started keeping after his promotion to paradise.
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Short Fiction: (Untitled) by Zuzanna Buchowska
On my seventh birthday I get a watch which can turn back time. Besides that, there’s nothing special about it.
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‘Make Life Harder’ makes life funnier
Since 2011 the satire blog has evolved into a cult phenomenon in its own right, with more followers than Kasia Tusk’s and even a newly published book.
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Short Fiction: ‘The Copernicus Brothers in Krakoów’ by Michal Karski
In 1491, the eighteen-year-old Nicolaus Copernicus and his older brother Andrzej came to Krakow from their home town of Toruń for a few years’ study at the University. Michał Karski was there at the railway station to witness their arrival…
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Nonfiction Excerpt: ‘Maria’s Story’ by Joseph & Maria Kula
Like a leaf in the autumn of 1939, a Polish girl is swept up by the turbulent winds of war and deposited in a beautiful alpine valley in Austria where she finds hardship, loneliness and danger. And this is just the beginning of her incredible journey.
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