The local newspapers have been filled with photos and reports on the first anniversary of the tsunami and that has given everyone...

Every year there is a debate on the number of novels published in the United States and elsewhere. The new technology of POD (Print on...

An American reader recently wrote to say that it was a mistake for me to use the name “Saigon” as, in his words, everyone knows the...

With the explosion of the number of published books and the fact that time remains constant (a mere 24-hours a day) and other...

From 2Bangkok.com is an AFP story captioned, “Foreign filmmakers flocking to Thailand,” but Hollywood apparently is staying away....

Each time a foreign language edition appears I have a good feeling that a number of new readers will be able to read my books. The...

On Sunday 13 December 2005 I spoke before about 100 members of the Pattaya City Expat Club. I read from Gambling on Magic, and later...

Here is the second installment of questions and answers with Bookazine’s Robert Pfaff. Bob has provided insight in the process of how...

I’ve have asked Bookazine’s Robert Pfaff a number of questions about the state of the book business in Thailand. Bookazine is one of...

The third week of November, I worked with a German TV documentary film crew who came to shoot a shot film about Vincent Calvino’s...

John Burdett, author of Bangkok 8 and Bangkok Tattoo , has reviewed The Third Brother by Nick McDonell (Grove) for the Washington Post....

On Sunday 12 December 2005 I have been invited to speak at THE PATTAYA CITY EXPATS CLUB. The venue is 'HENRY J. BEANS' Restaurant &...

This week ends with my first attempt to breath form and substance into a new Calvino novels. Call it the kiss of life. The act that...

A casual glance at the literary chatter found on an endless universe of literary blogs yields many authors from North America who have...

There is a small band of writers living in Thailand. Colin Cotterill is a writer whose writing has not appeared on the radar screen in...

Over at Sarah Weinman’s blog is the latest installment of the pitched battle over whether to allow crime fiction authors in translation...

Over the weekend, I heard that plans were underway to make a film based on Richard Calder’s 1992 Science fiction novel titled Dead Girls....

On American Thanksgiving Day I went to the Lone Star Bar in Washington Square to sign copies of Gambling on Magic and other novels....

The Los Angeles Times ran a lengthy article about the prosecution of mainland Chinese officials who are throwing themselves on the...

In the world of literature, especially a window on the world of non-English authors has been opened a little more by the New Yorker...