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As we drove to the waterfall through the hardscrabble Rajasthani land, all scrub, desert, barren hills, the road passed through small villages. In between were stone fences snaking toward the distant hills.
My guide, Mr. Ajit, sat upfront with the driver, and as we came up on a mini-bus with a couple of men riding on top, hed half turn in his seat, Thats India. A few minutes we tailgated a van packed with passengers, two men balanced on the back bumper, holding on for dear life. Thats India, Mr. Ajit said. The more squalid, inconvenient, and crazy, the happier it seemed to make Mr. Ajit. As it reinforced his view, that I was not receiving some burnished image of the true India.
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Posted: 2/5/2010 3:49:52 AM |
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The Edge has asked many experts, scholars, artists, and thinkers to address the question: HOW IS THE INTERNET CHANGING THE WAY YOU THINK?
The upshot of the many different takes on the question comes down to a discussion of the nature of thinking, the processes involved, the evolution of the brain, the relationship of neurons. Basically, the most honest correspondents conclude that we are in still in the dark ages when it comes to the way or ways we think.
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Posted: 1/28/2010 10:14:54 PM |
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Since 1985 Ive had 21 novels published. That seems a lot. But it would be two years work for someone like Georges Simenon. According to Wikipedia (you see I had to check back online) Simenon was one of the most prolific writers of the twentieth century, capable of writing 60 to 80 pages per day. His oeuvre includes nearly 200 novels, over 150 novellas, several autobiographical works, numerous articles, and scores of pulp novels written under more than two dozen pseudonyms.
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Posted: 1/22/2010 9:15:24 PM |
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I turned on the air-conditioner with the remote and immediately checked email. This is my habit. Like a gunslinger drawing two pistols and firing. Wrote this sentence as the email downloaded. Eleven messages. A quick glance: DOROTHYL which says there are 603 lines of text waiting to be read. The FCCT sent me a notice of upcoming events. Google Alert has four entries where second-hand copies of my books are being sold on amazon and ebay. Some Fan mail. An inquiry about getting published. An invitation from a fan.
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Posted: 1/15/2010 12:10:13 PM |
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Bangkok Found Reflections on The City
By Alex Kerr
Baht 650
River Books
(2009)
Long-term Thailand expats are not rare birds. The flock contains many nationalities who have nested in Thailand since the end of World War II and the large numbers currently living here started no more than 25 years ago. But only a handful of expat writers have managed to capture the spirit of expat experience, the history and culture of Thailand, and context of expat life. Alex Kerr because he has taken the time to make friends with Thais and learn the language, has written a fine book that describes and discusses the relationship between the native Thais and the expats quite unlike any other book you will read. Alex Kerrs Bangkok Found Reflections on The City has written a beautifully illustrated and rare book. One that fills a gap in the expat literature.
Bangkok Found is filled with a luminous insight and intelligence by an expat whose Asian experience began in Japan at age twelve when his father, a naval officer, was sent to that country.
Alex speaks fluent Japanese, Chinese and Thai, and what makes Bangkok Found one of the best books you will read about an expats life in Asia in general, and Thailand in particular, is that his cross-cultural and linguistic training has equipped him with an ability to see, record, evaluate an explain aspects of Thai life that escapes most expats who have written about Thailand. Kerr is also a first class observer of people, language and culture.
Kerr has befriended many Thais during his thirty-years since first coming to Thailand, and his Thai friends like Ping who took him to the old capital of Ayutthaya gave him an early grounding into the Thai society. He also made friends among members of the colourful expat community that he has met over the years. His chapter on Thai Expat Society charts their work and lives as writers, restaurant owners, collectors, philanderers, and businessmen. Their intermarriage and the luk khrueng children are part of their legacy. Foreigners are painted against the larger canvas of Thai political, social and economic life. Kerr places the expats into historical and contemporary context. So long as barbarian Westerners dont rock the boat, they can stay on board. The cross-cultural references to Japan make Bangkok Found an original and highly engaging read, and answers the basic question as to why large numbers of Westerners voluntary chose to live long-term in Thailand as opposed to Japan.
If in 2010 you buy only one book about the connection of the Westerner to Thailand, Id highly recommend that you buy Bangkok Found. It is truly a gem.
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Posted: 12/29/2009 10:26:09 PM |
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Thanks for coming to this blog in 2009.
I hope to see you stopping passed in 2010
May 2010 bring you happiness and good health.
Christopher
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Posted: 12/25/2009 4:05:09 AM |
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Every author has there own private reasons why they devote precious hours of their lives to writing a book. For this author, it is the passion I have for constructing the narrative and characters. Writing for me is unlocking a door to a room where I enter into the fictional realm. This realm feels as real as the real one. The line between sanity and the loony bin is remembering there is such a distinction.
I have far more control in the fictional world than in the real world, where like everyone else, control over most things is elusive at best.
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Posted: 12/25/2009 12:10:32 AM |
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On Sunday 20th December 2009 I will be speaking about The Corruptionist and The Vincent Calvino Readers Guide at the Pattaya Expat Club this Sunday.
From the Pattaya Expat Club newsletter:
Our Main Feature on 20 December is the foremost expat novelist interpreting Thailand, Christopher G Moore, who has two new books an epic detective thriller The Corruptionist set against the Bangkok backdrop of anti-government occupation of Government House, plus a pocket Readers Guide to the Calvino private eye series. It is Christophers 8th annual literary talk to the PEC members. He will discuss the new novel for half the feature and has requested an on stage interview with Richard Ravensdale from PEC, one of his tv and book review critics, to probe his work. He will also do a book signing. The Corruptionist is Baht 499. The Vincent Calvino Reader's Guide is Baht 249. Published in Thailand by Heaven lake Press. Buy a copy of either book on Sunday, and get The Risk of Infidelity Index and/or Paying Back Jack for 50% off retail price. Other selected backlist titles will be on offer with a good discount as well. A good time to stock up on Calvino titles that you haven't picked up.
The time: 11.30am. (Doors open 1030am) All Nationalities are welcome. Location: THE GRAND SOLE HOTEL, Second Road, Pattaya. Mid-way between TOPs Central Road and Big C 2nd Rd, on the right hand side.
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Posted: 12/17/2009 11:42:19 PM |
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A piece I wrote titled "Inside The Hive Mind" has appeared in the December/January issue of the Brooklyn Rail, a literary magazine located in New York.
"Something fundamental is changing in the hive mind. The thousands of human hives have been subject to globalization. These cultural, language, and faith colonies are interconnected in ways unimaginable a hundred years ago."
Link: http://brooklynrail.org/2009/12/express/inside-the-hive-mind
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Posted: 12/14/2009 5:07:31 AM |
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