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To Japan by cow: Nick "Momus" Currie, musician, writer, and artist

To Japan by cow: Nick "Momus" Currie, musician, writer, and artist

FromNotebook on Cities and Culture


To Japan by cow: Nick "Momus" Currie, musician, writer, and artist

FromNotebook on Cities and Culture

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Length:
61 minutes
Released:
Aug 17, 2011
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Colin Marshall talks to musician, writer, and artist Nick Currie, also known as Momus. Having recently relocated from Berlin to Osaka, he returns to the program to discuss his brand new book Solution 214-238: The Book of Japans. The novel follows up his previous book Solution 11-167: The Book of Scotlands with a similarly humorous exercise in social geography but one within a richer narrative framework — a narrative framework that pits twelve Japan "experts" against twelve Japan "idiots" — dealing with issues of imagination versus experience, monoculture versus diversity, and foreign versus future.
Released:
Aug 17, 2011
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

(Formerly The Marketplace of Ideas.) Colin Marshall sits down for in-depth conversations with cultural creators, internationalists, and observers of the urban scene all around Los Angeles and beyond.