510 - Harley Rustad (Author of Book About Justin Alexander)

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Society & Culture, Arts

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2022

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Harley is the author of Lost in the Valley of Death, about the life and (probable) death of my friend (and former podcast guest), Justin Alexander. Pico Iyer, one of the best living travel writers, described Harley's book as, “One of the most haunting books of recent times. ... Somerset Maugham’s classic Razor’s Edge updated to the Age of Instagram."

My conversations with Justin are here and here. His Instagram feed is here.

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0:00.0	Radio Mano, Papa Chango.
0:02.3	She will tell you what would be your hero TV- morgen?
0:24.9	What's happening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another edition of tangentially speaking.
0:33.6	This episode is a conversation I had a couple of months ago with a guy named Harley Rostad,
0:40.6	our USTAD.
0:42.6	He wrote a book called Lost in the Valley of Death about my friend Justin Alexander.
0:51.1	If you're new to the podcast and you don't know who Justin Alexander was, I highly recommend
0:58.6	that you go into the archives, check out some episodes there.
1:02.4	Look him up on Instagram, his feed is still alive and well, even if he isn't the basic
1:10.4	outlines of the story.
1:13.2	There that Justin was a traveler, a photographer, a storyteller, a beautiful guy in many, many
1:23.9	ways.
1:24.9	A beautiful physically.
1:26.6	He had a beautiful eye for images.
1:29.7	He had a great eye for story, for narrative.
1:36.1	He was a good friend.
1:37.1	He was someone I got to know through the podcast and our relationship extended well
1:42.3	beyond it.
1:43.3	We ended up spending about a month together in Northern Thailand.
1:50.4	What was it four years ago now?
1:52.2	Maybe five.
1:53.2	I think it was 2016.
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