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I will be talking, from the hip and to the hippest at tonight’s Bombyx Stories, a regular spoken word even at the WTF (what the fuck) Bar (on Sukhumvit Soi 51) in Bangkok tonight. Other performers include John Gartland, Aaron Grieser, Wesley Hsu, Andrew Kingham, Donald Quist, Mrigaa Sethi, Chris Wise and James Yu. Show [...]
I will be reading from my second novel, The Cambodian Book of the Dead, published in Thailand and Cambodian by Crime Wave Press, and from June world wide by Exhibit A Books in the UK. The Bangkok Night of Noir is the brainchild of writer James Newman. The venue, the Check Inn 99 is legendary, [...]
Publisher Visionary World have released a short promo clip for Sacred Skin – Thailand´s Spirit Tattoos, featuring a recent talk of mine at Bangkok´s first literary festival, organised by the Neilson Hays Library on May 22nd. The clip, also featuring a few pages from our forthcoming book, can now be seen on YouTube!
I love libraries, bookshops, even a pile of books to look through will do. And I like hotels with a decent library. Most hotels I stay in, whether up-scale, flea-pit or somewhere in between, don’t have libraries. A couple months ago, I was staying at the Z Hotel in Puri, Orissa, India, one of my [...]