• Mai Nardone’s Unvarnished Fictional Truths About Life in Contemporary Thailand

    In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

    Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now.

    In this episode Andrew talks to Welcome Me to the Kingdom author Mai Nardone about the struggle of ordinary people to survive in contemporary Bangkok.

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    Mai Nardone is a Thai and American writer whose work has appeared in American Short Fiction, Granta, McSweeney’s Quarterly, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. He lives in Bangkok. Welcome Me to the Kingdom is his first book.


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