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org and is distributed by NPR. It's Bolzai. I'm Jesse Thorne. My next guest Ian Frazier is a writer who, for lack of a better term, does the thing.

In the 80s he was fascinated by the Great Plains, the broad swath of flat land that extends

from the north of Texas all the way to Canada.

So he got in a car and drove there.

He talked to people, looked at monuments, read every book he could find on the place.

And then in 1989 he published a book about it called Great Plains.

Then in the late 90s, Siberia caught his attention.

Frazier, again, got in a car, drove it from St. Petersburg to the eastern edge of Russia, talked to everyone he could find there, and checked out every book he could find.

He also flew on a plane from Alaska to the Russian coast and had to eat oatmeal that was full of dead mosquitoes.

He called that book, Travels in Siberia.

Frazier's latest is Paradise Bronx. It's about Siberia. the birthplace of hip-hop and also the home of many many highways.

Frazier writes about its story, its geography, its sights, sounds, and smells both past and present.

It's a book that took Frazier 15 years to write. In that 15 years, he read

about the Bronx, he ate in its restaurants, talked to its residents and historians, and walked

pretty much every literal city block in the borough.

Now that Paradise Bronx is published, he joins us to talk about it.

Let's get into it with in Frazier. Ian Frazier, Sandy, welcome to Bullsey.

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