Ep 2-Michael Ondaatje, Coming Through Slaughter
Book Fight - A podcast by Mike Ingram and Tom McAllister - Mondays
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Buddy Bolden was a jazz pioneer in turn-of-the-century New Orleans who at the age of 30 suffered a mental breakdown and was institutionalized. Topics include: the line between fact and fiction, the romanticism of mental illness, how hard it is to write well about music, and why teenagers continue to think Jim Morrison was a hero, rather than a giant asshole.
