Book · recommended on 1 episode
Train Dreams
Denis Johnson ISBN 9783499237706
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Denis Johnson ISBN 9783499237706
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This book by Denis Johnson 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.
Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams is an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fictions. Robert Grainer is a day laborer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century, an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Buffeted by the loss
“one of the first books Lynn recommended to me was Dennis Johnson, Train Dreams. I've read that book probably 15, 20 times. I've mapped it out.”— 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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