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Arts & Letters Fiction & Poetry 

Radio Free Krakow: 2018 Edition

September 30, 2018October 1, 2018 Michal Karski 5 Comments

A satirical imagining of what the Rolling Stones might play in the topsy-turvy political landscape of Poland (and Europe) in 2018

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Tadeusz Kościuszko as portrayed by Juliusz Kossak
Arts & Letters Fiction & Poetry 

RADIO FREE KRAKOW: The Kościuszko Interview

February 4, 2018 Michal Karski 27 Comments

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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Deal with it
Arts & Letters Fiction & Poetry 

RADIO FREE KRAKOW: A Satirical Summer Playlist

August 26, 2017August 27, 2017 Michal Karski 20 Comments

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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Arts & Letters Fiction & Poetry 

Fiction: “I Came, I Saw, I Ate Obwarzanki”: The Roman Origins of Krakow

May 22, 2017 Michal Karski 3 Comments

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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photo: Wolf Schram
Arts & Letters Fiction & Poetry 

Short Fiction: “Wildcat”

May 11, 2017 Żaneta Piętak 3 Comments

“Wind, there was wind everywhere, going through everything and bedding everywhere it wanted to, a hot day it was….”

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Arts & Letters Fiction & Poetry 

Prose: Imagining Jutta

February 18, 2017 Matthew Krasner 0 Comments

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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Fiction & Poetry 

What Wojtek Did Next: A Beer-Drinking Bear in Paradise

December 9, 2015December 9, 2015 Michal Karski 6 Comments

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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Fiction & Poetry 

Short Fiction: (Untitled) by Zuzanna Buchowska

April 9, 2015May 4, 2018 Krakow Post 0 Comments

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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Fiction & Poetry 

‘Make Life Harder’ makes life funnier

March 30, 2015September 20, 2015 Magdalena Jasieniak 0 Comments

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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Fiction & Poetry 

Short Fiction: ‘The Copernicus Brothers in Krakoów’ by Michal Karski

March 4, 2015August 8, 2017 Krakow Post 3 Comments copernicus, fiction

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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