Bill Marx of Public Radio International’s World Books has posted a 26-minute podcast interview with Marian Schwartz, whose retranslation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s The White Guard was recently released by Yale University Press, as reported here earlier this summer. (Don’t miss the related Geo Quiz.)

The interview [taped August 13] is really interesting, touching on why people should read The White Guard in addition to The Master and Margarita, what some of the issues were with the previous translation, and, on a related note, how onomatopoeia works in the new version.

This translation also received a favorable comment in an article in The Independent.