Articles Written By Pitchaya Sudbanthad
TMN Contributing Writer Pitchaya Sudbanthad lives and writes in New York City. Aside from being an all-purpose rabble-rouser and raconteur, he is the founding editor of the Konundrum Engine Literary Review. Visit him at his website.
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Letters From Hotel Lambosa
Postmark Tomorrow
Every flea market has a bin of found postcards for sale. Some notes, however, wait to be mailed.
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New York, New York
Bus Bus Riddim
Bus lines across New York are being rerouted this summer, if not cancelled—and where buses go, so goes the city.
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Profiles
Pieces of the World
For people who lived near the World Trade Center, 9/11 can still be traced to debris that lingers around the neighborhood. A map of what the tourists don’t see.
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Profiles
Bangkok Anew
Bangkok’s image as a city for sex, knife fights, and cobras is burnished to a shine. A trip home finds some of that, but mostly it’s ghosts—real ones—and they’re not quiet.
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Op-Ed
Consuming Obama
Barack Obama is riding a wave of enthusiasm, and though we sense his sincerity, there’s little else we know about him. Considering the man everyone seems to think should be our next president.
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A Walk in the Park
New York, Part I
Hundreds of miles of pavement and incredible real-estate prices may suggest that humans have placed an indelible stamp on New York City. But the wilderness is just biding its time.
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Gallery
Let No Man Scare You
An interview with D.C.-based street artist Mark Jenkins about his playful plastics—lollipops, infants, and dogs—plus a gallery of his work.
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Movies
Ashes of Time
As more of his contemporaries have become practiced in making international wuxia blockbusters such as Hero, the uniqueness of Wong Kar Wai's poetic and enigmatic Ashes of Time, released in...
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Spoofs & Satire
The Southwestern Canon
Harold Bloom is perhaps our finest Shakespeare critic and certainly one of literature’s most passionate lovers. Who knew he’s a big chili fan too?
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Things
Pocky
Pocky, a coated stick-biscuit snack, is ubiquitous in Asia. Now that it's available at ethnic grocery stores in New York and other cities with Asian populations, U.S. youths can...
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Books
The Stories of Breece D’J Pancake
The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake is a collection of works by one of the best American short story writers you've probably never heard of. He was a young man,...
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Personal Essays
Do Right Man
When you find someone who can cut your hair right, get engaged. Otherwise they’ll eventually leave, and you’ll have to find someone new. Someone who, in our author’s case, would love to see you with a high-top fade.