Tom Vater

Photographer Kraig Lieb, writer Joe Cummings and yours truly at last week’s Bangkok Poetry event at WTF (whatthefuck) Bar in Thong Lor. The unusual suspects were captured by Aroon Thaewchatturat.

July 27th, 2012 | Tags: Bangkok, Bangkok Poetry, Joe Cummings, Kraig Lieb, Lonely Planet, photographer, Thailand, Tom Vater, writer | Category: Thailand, Writer´s Corner | Leave a comment

I have just come to the end of an extended stay in India. I have been living in an old crumbling palace, the infamous and incredible Z Hotel in Puri, Orissa, facing the Bay of Bengal, hanging with my co-conspirator Aroon Thaewchatturat. Puri, once a hippy haven for Japanese drop-outs, is now an all but [...]

September 26th, 2011 | Tags: Anne Rochat, artist, contemporary art, India, Kerouac, Kraig Lieb, Lonely Planet, On The Road, Orissa, performance art, Puri, Switzerland, The Z Hotel, Tom Vater | Category: India, Switzerland | Leave a comment

I was just trawling through my archives and found this story – City of Fakes -  from 2006, about Cambodia`s refusal to enforce international copyright laws. Of course, Cambodia is known to be a country where everything is for sale, if only one puts the right amount of dollars on the table. One glorious consequence [...]

April 16th, 2010 | Tags: American franchise, American trash, book, bootleg, Cambodia, copied goods, copyright, copyright in Cambodia, copyright infringement, fake, fast food, Hooters, investment in Cambodia, large breasts, lawlessness, Lonely Planet, Phnom Penh, photocopied, piracy, pirate DVD, pirated books, pirated goods, playstation, US Embassy Cambodia, US franchise | Category: Cambodia | Leave a comment

While I was in Cambodia last week, I noticed that my 2006 non-fiction title Beyond the Pancake Trench is still available as a photocopied bootleg in several outlets around the country. My very own work, pirated by nefarious greedy people, does not sell nearly as well as the multitude of Lonely Planet titles that are [...]

April 12th, 2010 | Tags: Alfred McCoy, Beyond the Pancake Trench, bootleg, Cambodia, Charles Bukowski, Christopher Pym, copy, copyright Cambodia, copyright infringement, Hunter S Thompson, Lonely Planet, Michel Houellebecq, Millenium trilogy, Mistapim in Cambodia, Paul Coelho, Paul Theroux, photocopied books, piracy, pirate copy, Siem Reap, Stieg Larrson, Tom Vater | Category: Cambodia | Leave a comment