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Review of Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler

Review of Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler

by Jim Algie | Oct 26, 2021 | Blog, Book Reviews

One good thing about the pandemic was catching up on classics like “Farewell, My Lovely” by Raymond Chandler. For a book published 80 years ago, it’s surprisingly fresh and prescient. FISTFUL OF RAYMOND CHANDLER In Chandler’s second Philip Marlowe PI...
On the Comeback Trail with Singer and Author Dan Stuart

On the Comeback Trail with Singer and Author Dan Stuart

by Jim Algie | May 22, 2020 | Blog, Book Reviews, Music, Personalities

The former frontman of Green on Red, Dan Stuart, discusses the group’s rise and downfall, his 15-year hiatus from the music biz and how personal tragedies inspired three acclaimed solo records and two books. Words by Jim Algie. Some 15 albums and EPs into his...
Eulogy for William Warren, the Dean of All Expat Authors in Thailand

Eulogy for William Warren, the Dean of All Expat Authors in Thailand

by Jim Algie | Aug 21, 2019 | Blog, Book Reviews, Personalities

Over five decades in the kingdom, William Warren, a friend to both Jim Thompson and the most famous expat murdered in Bangkok in the 1960s, produced more than 50 books and hundreds of articles, writes Jim Algie, before his death in 2017. When I first arrived in...
Sunthorn Phu: The Shakespeare of Siam

Sunthorn Phu: The Shakespeare of Siam

by Jim Algie | Jun 20, 2019 | Blog, Book Reviews, Personalities

The birthday of Thailand’s most revered writer on June 26 is an occasion for performances of the work of Sunthorn Phu and remembrances of his legacy, writes Jim Algie in the June 2019 issue of Sawasdee.  Looking around the Sunthorn Phu Memorial Park in Rayong province...
Thriller by T. Hunt Locke Bounces Between Bangkok and Boston

Thriller by T. Hunt Locke Bounces Between Bangkok and Boston

by Jim Algie | Jun 17, 2019 | Blog, Book Reviews

T. Hunt Locke has mixed two of his paramount pastimes – history and thrillers – into an intoxicating highball, writes Jim Algie. The prologue flashes back to the American War of Independence, the siege of Boston and the Suffolk Resolves, when we’re introduced to the...
The Anti-Aging Guide to Travelling Gracefully

The Anti-Aging Guide to Travelling Gracefully

by Jim Algie | Apr 29, 2019 | Blog, Book Reviews, Travel Tales

Travel as an anti-aging agent is a persistent theme in this absorbing memoir. Throughout her witty and adeptly written travel memoirs, Janet Brown has taken the adage that “life is a journey” to a multifaceted extreme. In previous books, she has led readers through...
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