Book · recommended on 1 episode
Coming Through Slaughter
Michael Ondaatje ISBN 9780140072815
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Michael Ondaatje ISBN 9780140072815
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This book by Michael Ondaatje came up once on Tim Ferriss in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Craig Mod. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
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“Michael Andon, you know, he's first and foremost a poet. You read things like Coming Through Slaughter and this is like a book of poetry in a form of novel”— Craig Mod
The guest here is Craig Mod: Writer, photographer, and book designer based in Japan; runs the Special Projects membership and craigmod.com, and authored the Random House book Things Become Other Things about a 600km COVID-era walk on Japan's Kii Peninsula. Craig Mod tells Tim Ferriss how a working-class kid from Connecticut became a Japan-based bookmaker, writer, and walker.
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