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The Lady from Shanghai

. “There’s only one sun,” he says. She nods her head, not catching his meaning nor caring much either. It is enough that she is kind and patient. These sorts give up after a while and move on, further down the bar where it may be easier to land a catch, and sure enough, they

Season’s Readings

Holidays. Year-end sales. Dinners and parties and turkeys and wine and pies. There’s only so much of this one can wallow in… Time for some simpler pleasures. When was the last time you snuggled up in a comfy sofa chair with a really good book? Here are four from Malaysian authors, something different from the

Dina Zaman’s I Am Muslim Book Launch: A Night to Remember

A labour of love. That’s really the only way to say it right. Last Wednesday I was invited to Dina Zaman‘s official launch of her new book, I Am Muslim at the Central Market Annexe. My first experience of Dina’s writing was via her Dina’s Dalca column in The New Straits Times. She later wrote

In Bed with Lydia

That caught your attention, didn’t it? What would it be like being in bed with Lydia Teh, you wonder? Now, before you let your mind get away with you, let me clarify — we (the avowed fans of Lydia Teh; maybe I should start another fan club, eh?) think it would be a fab title

Berpasar Mulut

Writing & Publishing in Malaysia, Part I: Yesterday afternoon, I attended Lydia Teh‘s book talk, I’m Proud to be a Malaysian, held at MPH Midvalley. There was a decent turnout of the usual Sunday crowd out to do their Chinese New Year shopping. Besides Lydia, I met other local lit-bloggers, namely Eric Forbes, he of