297 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life ..."

<p>Along with special guest Longinus, the boys drink and review Beam Me up, Stouty (a coconut stout) from Saugatuck Brewing, then discuss "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich."&nbsp;</p> <p>The story is not about an escape, or an unusual day, or how something dramatic happened on this day. It's just a typical day in a Soviet labor camp.&nbsp;</p> <p>Solzhenitsyn's account of this one day so captured the experience of the Soviet prisoner camps that he received letters from former prisoners expressing how perfectly he had captured the experience.&nbsp;</p> <p>The characters themselves are not particularly wicked. You don't come away hating the characters in the story, but the system. It's all about ordinary, decent people caught up in a wicked system.&nbsp;</p> <p>It's a cold story. You might want to bundle up as you read it.&nbsp;</p>