by Jim Algie | Jul 27, 2022 | Blog, Book Reviews, Press, Stories
Steph Johnson gives Jim Algie’s short story collection The Phantom Lover two thumbs up on Thailand website. “People are a lot like snakes. They’re very fast and tricky, and you can never predict how harmless or dangerous they might turn out to be.”...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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