by Jim Algie | Dec 19, 2018 | Blog, Book Reviews, Personalities
Meet some of the expat authors, musicians and a painter who have helped to make Bangkok into an international hideaway for mavericks and outliers with a creative bent. Review by Jim Algie One of the first expats I met in Bangkok was a fellow teacher at my school. He...
by Jim Algie | Dec 11, 2018 | Blog, Music
Looking back at the 40th anniversary of punk in 2016 through interviews with members of the Damned and Buzzcocks, and a rundown of main events, such as the son of the Sex Pistols’ former manager burning some US$7 million of punk memorabilia. By Jim Algie To all...
by Jim Algie | Nov 16, 2018 | Blog, Book Reviews, Personalities
Before publishing his breakthrough book Bangkok 8, and five later entries in the series, John Burdett lived a life of novel-worthy plot twists among hippies in Europe, the criminal underclass in London, and the Hong Kong elite. By Jim Algie Of all the paths that lead...
by Jim Algie | Oct 26, 2018 | Blog, Music, Personalities
Before I was born my mom used to go and see Leonard Cohen do poetry readings in Montreal in the late 1950s. So I grew up with his novels and poetry collections on our bookshelves. She did not listen to his music though, so that epiphany had to wait until 1985 when I’d...
by Jim Algie | Aug 8, 2018 | Blog, Music
Jim Algie gets to revisit a past life as a punk rocker in the hugely entertaining ‘On The Night Joey Ramone Died’ writes Max Barclay of the Bangkok Post in the May 15, 2018 edition. “Write what you know” is an axiom familiar to all who have learned the craft...
by Jim Algie | Jun 26, 2018 | Blog, Book Reviews
The fifth book in the Junior Bender Mystery series brings together a compelling a cast of characters in a Hollywood thriller by Timothy Hallinan, writes Jim Algie in this review from Bangkok 101 magazine. Fans of Thailand-based novels will know the name Timothy...
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