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It's been brutally hot and, at times, fairly airless in Saigon this week, which reminds me of this old piece of fiction set in Hanoi when 'we' had no…
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In 2019, I wrote this paean to my local neighbourhood in Saigon. Although I worry one small part of it is becoming too much of a 'Pub Street', it's…
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February 2023

First published by Eksentrika (2022), this satirical story, written in peak pandemic times, began as a spoof of Mr. Murakami's oeuvre but unfurled into…
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January 2023

I first wrote this in 2017 and even though downtown HCMC has got much busier at Tet in recent years, it mostly holds up (I have updated it a smidge…
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Having watched ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ the other night, I thought I'd re-post this short story, which also features some desperate, maudlin men who…
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December 2022

An essay on expatriate nostalgia in a rapidly developing metropolis.
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THIS WEEK, I spent a day and a bit thinking about a grand old building we can easily take for granted here in Saigon. The Central Post Office…
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October 2022

I wrote about Veto Baker before, but as its 50 years to the month that he ran out on the US military to be with the Vietnamese woman he loved, here's a…
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August 2022

A very short piece of non-fiction about a very short piece of fiction I wrote about those who see the Cambodian capital as the end of the road.
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Reposted in loving memory of the thin blue fence that blocked Le Loi Street for many years, here's a short 2021 essay that was originally published by…
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July 2022

First published by Mekong Review last year, here's Mr. Greene's historic one-star Trip Advisor review of an infamous Saigon tourist trap on rue Catinat…
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June 2022

Below find a free recipe and a link to my latest short story, published by Eksentrika -- an Asian Arts and Culture Community based in Kuala Lumpur.
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