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To Japan by cow: Nick "Momus" Currie, musician, writer, and artist
Notebook on Cities and Culture
English - August 17, 2011 06:01 - 1 hour - 20.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 124 ratingsPlaces & Travel Society & Culture Arts comedy business entrepreneurship interview culture news music finance fitness design Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: The world dreamed but not judged: traveler and writer Pico Iyer
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.