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Newark Airport. All photos by Peter Rozovsky |
My flight left just as darkness fell in Hong Kong. We followed the night across the Pacific and North America before arriving at Newark International Airport around 11 p.m. I was so drained when I got home that I slept all day. I have not seen sunlight for 38 hours, and, after a week and a half of 90 degree heat in Cambodia and Thailand, I had to bundle up against the cold. If only I drank and smoked to excess, I'd have all the prerequisites for writing a Scandinavian crime novel.
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Tom Vater |
Until then, here are some of the crime writers I met Sunday evening, when
Christopher G. Moore, the host for my Thailand visit and a dean among expatriate crime writers in Southeast Asia,
interviewed me on stage at Bangkok's Check Inn 99.
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A non-crime-writer
outside Phnom Penh |
The list includes Moore;
Tom Vater, who also wrote the guidebook I used in Cambodia;
Harlan Wolff, who chose his pen name at an Irish friend's suggestion after declaring that his writing career would either take off like Hemingway's or sink like the Titanic;
James A. Newman, who did a fine job as the evening's MC; and the irreverent
Collin Piprell, who asked lots of questions; and
Kevin S. Cummings.
Also in attendance was a man billed as
the only person to circumnavigate the world five times by motorcycle. Upon hearing I was from Philadelphia, he walked up and said, "Temple University. South Street."
All in all, not a bad evening.
© Peter Rozovsky 2015Labels: Asia, Bangkok, Christopher G. Moore, Collin Piprell, Greg Frazier, Harlan Wolff, James A. Newman, Kevin S. Cummings, Thailand, Tom Vater