by Philip Caputo | Mar 26, 2017 | Mekong Trip Notes, News
Friday, the 3d of March. We are off the Tonle Sap and back on the Mekong, which isn’t navigable by large vessels for much farther. That’s why it’s our final day on the Jahan. Buddhist monks come aboard to bless the ship, their chants hypnotic and...
by Philip Caputo | Mar 26, 2017 | Mekong Trip Notes, News
Cambodia’s Spider Man stands five feet three or four (with a good wind under him), weighs around 120 pounds (with a brick in his back pocket), and is 66 years old. His real name is Ree — that’s a phonetic spelling — and he earns his living...
by Philip Caputo | Mar 26, 2017 | Mekong Trip Notes, News
On Sunday, after we’ve toured the royal city of Angkor Thom (once the capital of the aforementioned Jayavarman VII), Leslie gets sick. All but five of our group have succumbed at one point or another to the intestinal distress that’s inevitable when...
by Philip Caputo | Mar 26, 2017 | Mekong Trip Notes, News
Phnom Penh would present us with mind-bending contrasts, I stated in my last post. At sunrise, after having another go at Tai Chi on the terrace deck, we disembarked, toured the capital in cyclos, then visited the Royal Palace, a spectacular sight. Pagodas and...
by Philip Caputo | Mar 26, 2017 | Mekong Trip Notes, News
If ever I’d been made an offer I couldn’t refuse, it was the one that popped up in my inbox several months ago. Lindblad/National Geographic Tours asked me to be guest speaker on a 12-day “expedition” up the Mekong River through Vietnam...
by Philip Caputo | Mar 20, 2017 | Some Rise by Sin
A fine pre-publication review of the new novel, SOME RISE BY SIN, in the most recent issue of Publishers Weekly: Expanding on several of the themes of his 2009 novel Crossers, Caputo’s latest is a thought-provoking story of unthinkable brutality. Former art history...
by Philip Caputo | Feb 17, 2017 | Book News, Some Rise by Sin
Here is a link to a 5-star review from Booklist and a somewhat mixed advance review from Kirkus, call it a 3-star. Kirkus will publish it on March 1st. I don’t think the novel is as predictable as the reviewer states, but then I’m biased. Booklist first:...
by Philip Caputo | Feb 8, 2017 | Book News, Some Rise by Sin
Full text of Library Journal pre-pub review: Library Journal 2 1 17
by Philip Caputo | Jan 27, 2017 | Book News
Click here a link to the book jacket for SomeRisebySin_Pass2, then click on the link
by Philip Caputo | Nov 29, 2016 | News
A nice advance notice for SOME RISE BY SIN in Library Journal: http://reviews.libraryjournal.com/2016/11/prepub/picks/caputo-chevalier-russo-up-and-coming-segal-barbaras-fiction-picksmay-2017-pt-4/
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