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Pitchaya Sudbanthad
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Author of the novel BANGKOK WAKES TO RAIN, selected as a best book of the year by the NYT, WaPo, and Kirkus.
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In the yellow and red font used for Mamdani's campaign: Attention Span for Long Novels
November 9, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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View of an endangered coastline
A person on a motorized "longtail" boat speeds past mangroves and shellfish farming pillars where a wide canal flows out to the Gulf of Thailand.
May 26, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Dropped by a local mall bookstore and said hello to the first novel.
A view of a multi-level bookstore Books on a shelf including the author's novel Bangkok Wakes to Rain
January 21, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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For me, these everyday, accessible fresh markets in Bangkok are preferred to any shiny, new, and ultimately forgettable temples to crass overconsumption that they build in the city.
December 10, 2024 at 8:13 AM
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At this year's Bangkok Art Biennale
A winged sculpture hangs over a spiraling rotunda where art-goers are ascending.
November 30, 2024 at 2:35 PM
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The rewards of excavation and discovery
Piles of used books at a library sale An assortment of books by authors from Hari Kunzru to Madhur Jaffrey and Louise Glück
November 20, 2024 at 4:07 AM
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One Italian notebook finished, another begun
One black schoolchildren's notebook and another with a patterned cover. A dark gray Lamy fountain pen sits on top of the latter.
November 16, 2024 at 11:53 AM
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For sale: old eyes, very used
Singapore, 2024; Leica D-Lux 4, digital.
A wall of second-hand lenses and cameras at a shop
November 15, 2024 at 5:08 AM
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Crow Quay
Singapore, 2024; Leica D-Lux 4, digital.
A crow perches on a railing at Clarke Quay in Singapore.
November 13, 2024 at 2:29 PM
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While in Chinatown
Chinese sausage makers in a shophouse A young female storekeeper in a fish maw stall Piles of dried mushrooms for sale Red lanterns hang from the ceiling of a Chinese temple
March 4, 2024 at 12:07 PM
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Rock your bodhi right
A root over rock bodhi tree bonsai on a wall perch
February 29, 2024 at 2:40 PM
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Giant little fig
A terracotta potted fig bonsai on a wall perch
February 20, 2024 at 11:32 AM
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At Chulalongkorn University later in February
An image announcing a World Literature and Creative Writing talk with CompLit Chula (see their FB page for more details)
February 13, 2024 at 5:08 PM
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Bird from home
A field guide showing the oriental magpie robin A dark blue bird with a white stripe stands on a stick floating on a garden pond.
February 6, 2024 at 3:49 AM
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Art credit: Aude Abou Nasr
A colorful illustration showing a hand navigating social media on a phone screen, while in the background a family mourns a scene of devastation
February 5, 2024 at 10:31 AM
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Word by word
Binoculars and a folding field guide to Thailand birds
January 30, 2024 at 7:29 AM
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Sto imparando
A copy of the Berlitz Self-Teacher book for Italian
January 22, 2024 at 7:40 AM
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Tamarind rising
A sprout emerges from a small paper pot
January 20, 2024 at 9:35 AM
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Wait, wait until the changing of the light
Bangkok; January 2024.
Motorscooters and riders line up at a Bangkok intersection at twilight
January 17, 2024 at 2:56 PM
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Homemade ข้าวต้มมัด (sticky rice and bananas steamed in banana leaves)
On a plate, an unwrapped Khao tom maht, showing sticky rice packed into a rectangular shape surrounded by the opened steamed banana leaves
January 15, 2024 at 11:56 AM
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Hello, kitties
Two cats frolick in a Bangkok alleyway at sunset
January 4, 2024 at 11:58 PM
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On my rotation of Bangkok coffee shops / writing spots
A coffee shop at an end of a walkway lined with tropical plants A keyboard in front of an iced Americano and a writing notebook under a spotlight
January 4, 2024 at 9:19 AM
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Much prefer provincial holiday decorations to any of the electronic ones in Bangkok
A Thai town's central clock tower bedecked with holiday decorations behind a passing scooter motorist
January 2, 2024 at 7:32 AM
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Today's freshly harvested writing elixir
Coconuts on a table next to a cleaver for chopping into them
January 1, 2024 at 1:31 PM
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Moon over the Gulf of Siam
At night, the moon hangs over a beach with a coconut tree and flowering magnolia
December 30, 2023 at 3:41 PM