SWR2 Magazine is well worth a read, including the new book by Arno Geiger – SWR2

Arno Geiger went underground for many years: in waste paper containers in Vienna. In “The Happy Secret” he talks about his precious books.

In “Other Fears” Katarina Brissel describes the strange move into a nursing home. Hear a reading tip from Austrian author Anna Kim.

American Isabelle Fargo Cole is a guest in the studio and reporting on her research in the Bering Strait for Alaska’s lead article “The Gold Coast.”

The volume of the letter and biography: We review two new books about the Russian author Varlam Shalamov (1907-1982), who lived for a long time in the labor camps of Siberia.

Finally, we walk through the Karen Blixen Museum in Denmark and then read Raquel Haslund-Gerild’s new novel Adam in Heaven: The Story of Danish Painter Christian Zahrtmann (1843-1917).

Arno Geiger – The Happy Secret
Hanser Verlag Munich, 240 pages, €25
ISBN 978-3-446-27617-8
Review by Julia Schroeder

Katharina Brissel – Other concerns
Residenz Verlag, 184 pages, €22
ISBN 9783701717064
Reading tip from author Anna Kim

Isabel Fargo Cole – Gold Coast
Judith Shalansky (Editor) Natural History Series
Matthes & Seitz Verlag, 367 pages, €38
ISBN 978-3-7518-0217-8
Conversation and reading with author Isabel Fargo Cole