Thomas Swick: Life in Cold War Poland


Episode Artwork
1.0x
0% played 00:00 00:00
Oct 15 2024 72 mins   2

Thomas Swick moved to Warsaw at the height of the Cold War. His newest book Falling Into Place is a memoir of his life behind the Iron Curtain, but it’s also a writer’s coming of age in the heyday of post-Watergate journalism.


We spoke about life in the Eastern Bloc, Polish films, and the ten sins of travel writing.