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Bangkok Noir: The Tell-Tale Art
Crime and corruption, hookers and hitmen, the new anthology Bangkok Noir makes a case for hardboiled crime fiction in the Thai capital with bullet points. Jim Algie reads you their writes In the middle of 2011, some eight years after the Thai government’s “War on...
The Great Godparents of the Bangkok Bargirls Memoir
No two books about prostitution in Asia have created so many imitators and detractors as A Woman of Bangkok and The World of Suzie Wong, or inspired so many appalling memoirs about Bangkok bargirls, writes Jim Algie, in a review originally printed in the Bangkok...
Straits Times reviews Bizarre Thailand
Mark Fenn reviewed the nonfiction collection Bizarre Thailand in Singapore’s Straits Times newspaper, giving the book a big thumbs up and singling out some of the funnier lines. Illuminating and irreverent, it offers a taste of Thailand far from Bangkok’s glitzy...
22 Walks in Bangkok: A Book Review
A new book maps out more than 20 walking tours of Bangkok that show some different sides and rough edges to the pedestrian-unfriendly capital. Most visitors come away with the impression that Bangkok is not a city for walking. Vendors, stray dogs and food carts hog...
Jim Algie discusses his Asian horror and noir collection with Phuket News
The Phuket News interviews Jim Algie, author of The Phantom Lover and Other Thrilling Tales of Thailand, about why fiction is quite often the only way to tell the truth about Thailand, in the February 5th, 2014 edition. Email interview by Jody Houton What in your...
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