This week, Rio and Matt are joined by writer, Paul Dalla Rosa (https://twitter.com/pauldallarosa) to talk about Yukio Mishima's coming of age novel, Confessions of a Mask, and Paul Schrader's magisterial cinematic adaptation of Mishima's life and work, Mishima: a Life in Four Chapters.
Discussion ranges over masculinity, misogyny, homosexuality, autobiographical fiction vs autofiction, and more.
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