Peter Budrin
Literary scholar and early career fellow at Queen Mary University of London, author of Laurence Sterne and His Readers in Early Soviet Russia, specializing in 18th-century literature and reception studies.
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Apr 16, 2026 • 48min
793 The Secret Order of Shandeans: Laurence Sterne in Early Soviet Russia (with Peter Budrin) | My Last Book with Edward Watts
Peter Budrin, a literary scholar who studies 18th-century reception, discusses Laurence Sterne’s surprising popularity in 1920s Soviet Russia. Edward Watts, historian and author, stops by to name the last book he’d read. They explore Sterne’s conversational style, why his works resurged amid upheaval, and how secret networks of readers found solace and individuality in his writing.
