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About meI am an American who's taught English in east Asia for the last six years. Currently in northern Thailand, hacking my way through teak jungles with me machete. Literary tastes are all over the map (and may be best reflected in that my two favorite writers are probably Henry Miller and Kawabata Yasunari) but I tend to read mostly what's commonly referred to as "literary fiction." I have no interest in Harry Potter.

Also, I'm a film lover, and have a burdensomely large movie collection that ranges from Japanese silent films to low-budget Kazakh and Georgian (the country, not the US state) films that about ten people on Earth besides me have seen. But it's not all about the totally obscure: I also love classic Hollywood, Buster Keaton, screwball comedies, westerns, etc. Modern American films I'm not so impressed by. But I'm curmudgeonly like that sometimes.

Also do a lot of photography in my spare time, records of my travels around Asia that range from valleys in furthest western Mongolia to Tibetan mountain towns to metropolitan Japan.

Mexican food and good live music are probably the only two things I miss about the United States.

And yeah, like a lot of readers I fancy myself some kind of writer. The next great literary genius just waiting to be foisted upon the unsuspecting public. But the heat here in the sunny frolicksome Thailand, man, it's a real motivation killer.

About my libraryJapanese writers ten people in the English-speaking world have read? Check. Bruno Schulz and Witold Gombrowicz? Indeed. Duong Thu Huong and Nguyen Huy Thiep? Oh, you better believe it. Felisberto Hernandez? Well... I wish.

LocationPhayao, Thailand

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Member sinceMar 18, 2008