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Remember when...?
Remember when blogging used to be the “thing”? When people actually sat down and composed something meaningful. Now it seems that everything is a “tweet” or a status update.
We’re all thinking aloud in real time and sharing with the world.
Pachinko, A Literary Triumph! In the spirit of Charles Dickens and Leo Tolstoy, Pachinko is a beautifully written story about the sweeping four-generation history and saga of a Korean family in Japan.
The Freedman — Book Review I’ve been a big fan of Lars Hedbor ever since I read his first book, The Prize…
Regrets? I've had a few
Regrets? I’ve had a few
Today, without fanfare or celebration, I will mark sixty trips around the sun.
In Asia, one’s sixtieth birthday is an auspicious occasion because there was a time when most folks didn’t live past sixty. These days, sixty is the new forty (though my body sure doesn’t feel like it).
What a strange and amazing trip it has been. I guess it’s natural when one gets older they stop and look back on…
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10,000 words
Just passed 10,000 words on my current WIP. The first 10,000 words are the always the hardest. I seem to be slowing down a little. Either that, I am taking more time (this is probably the real reason) for writing out particular scenes…and don’t forget I am still writing out the first draft by hand.
My goal is to finish this current novel by the end of this summer. Or as Slim Pickens playing…
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Roadside Table -- One Mile Ahead
Roadside Table — One Mile Ahead
Today I was thinking about roadside tables. Remember them? This was not a rest area with all the amenities (restrooms, running water, and a possibly a playground for the kids).
A roadside table was that. Just a picnic table or two and a trashcan. Usually at some junction/intersection where a family could enjoy a picnic lunch before continuing their journey.
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Nice Parking, Dumb Ass Usually, bad parking in Korea doesn't annoy me (yes, it does, but I am trying hard to be nicer these days), but when I saw the way the driver of this car parked in front of a fitness club next to my apartment, I couldn't look the other way.
Winds of Change
With talk of summits on the Korean peninsula these days, one might be inclined to believe that peace could very well be at hand, or at the very least, some serious talk about reducing tensions in northeast Asia.
Kim Jong-un’s recent trip to China was definitely an unprecedented move, which could have far-reaching repercussions. My guess is that Kim needed to bring China onboard and seek some…
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Waking Up in the Land of the Morning Calm — 2017 Another year in Korea. Twenty-seven and counting.
Twenty-five years ago this month, I taught my last class at ELS, a language school in Seoul near Kangnam subway station.
Shootout in the JSA
We had ourselves a little incident in the Joint Security Area (JSA) this week when a North Korean soldier defected to the South. This was the story reported by CBS News:
SEOUL, South Korea — Four North Korean soldiers fired about 40 rounds at a comrade fleeing into South Korea and hit him five times in the first shooting at the jointly controlled area of the heavily fortified border in more than…
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Nuclear Blues Bradley Martin, the man who wrote the book on North Korea with his Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader…
All Along the DMZ -- Part III
All Along the DMZ — Part III
This is Part III of a five-part series on the Korean DMZ inspired by Barry Lancet’s The Spy Across the Table and my articles and essays about “the scariest place on the earth.”
Did someone say road trip to the DMZ?
That’s what happened in August 2000 when I was invited back to the JSA, this time from the kind generals of the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission (NNSC) Major General Adrien…
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All Along the DMZ -- Part I
All Along the DMZ — Part I
I just finished Barry Lancet’s heart-pounding geopolitical thriller, The Spy Across the Table, and I really enjoyed the scenes which took place in and around the DMZ on the Korean peninsula. Having been there several times, both as a tourist and a feature writer for The Korea Times, I appreciate those authors writing about events on the Korean peninsula who try to incorporate the DMZ into their…
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Perfume River
Perfume River
By Robert Olen Butler
Hardcover: 272 pages
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press; 1st edition (September 6, 2016)
Of all the modern writers I admire and who have inspired me the most, Robert Olen Butler would be at the top of the list. Butler’s latest, Perfume Riveris a literary tour de force. Beautiful, haunting, and evocative, I have never been moved by a novel as much as I have been…
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The New Koreans: The Story of a Nation Hardcover: 480 pages Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books; 1st edition (April 4, 2017) When it comes to writing about Korea—its people, culture, and history—there is no one better up to that onerous task than Michael Breen who has devoted most of his life observing and writing about the country.
Hot off the Presses! The first batch of Bureau 39 arrived in Daejeon today, and in the immortal words of Ed Grimley (Martin Short) what a thrill it was to open the box to see all these copies, if I must say.