Give the Koreatown Novel Cafe this: nobody can object. Now, I wouldn’t necessarily trust an Angeleno who claims to love the place — show me a man who eats here every time they come to the neighborhood, and I’ll show you a man who’s given up — but if you’re meeting someone you don’t know […]
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- From my interview archive: Lawrence Osborne on Bangkok
- Books on Cities: Michael Sorkin, All Over the Map (2011)
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- Korea Blog: Leenalchi’s Pansori at the Disco
- Times Literary Supplement: Michael Booth, “Three Tigers, One Mountain”
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