czech stuff
I have written a book on Czech popular culture entitled "From Good King Wenceslas to the Good Soldier Svejk: A Dictionary of Czech Popular Culture". You can read a review from the Prague Post here. All published reviews can be found here. A brief interview about the book can be found here. You can purchase the book from Amazon or directly from CEU Press.Â
I provide updates to the book at the Good King Wenceslas blog. You can also find a file with all new entries and tables here. A file with tables about Slovakia can be found here. Pictures of most of the entries in the book can be found here.
I have another blog entitled Seldom Asked Questions about the Czech Republic. You can find a file with these questions and answers here.
I have also written a number of articles on Czech popular culture. I am currently trying to publish them as a book entitled Ideally Existing Communism: Popular Culture Before and After the Velvet Revolution
Chapter 3: Normalization and normal life in the films of Zdenek Sverak and Ladislav Smoljak
Cimrman, Czechness, and communism
You can find my translations of the Jara Cimrman Theater here
I am a fan of concrete or visual poetry (poetry that uses the typographical arrangement of words on the page to convey effects). Vaclav Havel produced many excellent concrete poems in a volume called Anticodes (Antikody). You can find my translation of these poems here. I will soon try to post more concrete poems by Jiri Kolar. The Sackner Archives has a great collection of concrete and visual poetry.
For Czech learners, these are some readings in Czech popular culture that I occasionally update (link)