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Posted On März 23, 2013By Christopher G. MooreIn Crimemag, Kolumne

Christopher G. Moore: Views from Bangkok

Christopher G. Moore heute über den Gangster Parker, mit dem Donald E. Westlake als Richard Stark einen Typus geschaffen hat, der heute noch virulent ist – nur nennt man ihn nicht mehr Gangster, sondern CEO o. ä. Eine faszinierende Neuinterpretation einer klassischen Figur. Parker’s Absence of Fear Richard Stark a.k.a. Donald Westlake started a series only after his editor convinced him to change the ending of the first novel. In the original ending, Parker was killed. Apparently, so the story goes, Westlake’s editor changed literary history and crime fiction hasn’tRead More

Posted On März 16, 2013By Christopher G. MooreIn Crimemag, Kolumnen und Themen

Christopher G. Moore: Views from Bangkok

Seit einigen Wochen beschäftigt sich Christopher G. Moore mit Affekten und ihren gewalttätigen Folgen. Auch heute geht es um „anger & crime“. Anger and the medical solution As a crime fiction writer, anger is an emotion that figures into the emotions of the characters in a narrative where people are threatened, intimidated, disrespected, frustrated, or their worldview/belief system is attacked or challenged. Anger is on the A-list of negative emotions. If anger were an actor, he would never be out of work. Drama is basically what authors and film directorsRead More

Posted On März 9, 2013By Christopher G. MooreIn Crimemag, Kolumnen und Themen

Christopher G. Moore: Views from Bangkok

Christopher G. Moore über den Zusammenhang zwischen Wut und Verbrechen – in Thailand und überall auf der Welt … Anger fueled Crime I am trying to make sense of an impression that Thais are becoming angrier, and with more violent results than a quarter of a century ago. Stories in the news, from first hand observations and from friends can distort reality. What I have confidence in is the idea that levels of anger correlate with crime. Anger rarely brings out the best in us; quite the opposite, it isRead More

Posted On Februar 23, 2013By Christopher G. MooreIn Crimemag, Kolumne

Christopher G. Moore: Views from Bangkok

Christopher G. Moore knüpft an sein Thema von letzter Woche an und überlegt, wie Angst heutzutage funktionalisiert wird, um inquisitionsartig Kontrolle über unsere Gesellschaften zu etablieren … Inside Galileo’s Fear Chamber Galileo has much to teach us about the nature of fear. He found out the capability for suppression and intimidation that an alternative worldview can be brought to bear on the messenger of such a possibility. Belief systems rest on a unified, consistent, and cohesive set of ideas. Galileo, the Wikileaks front man of his age, championed the theoryRead More

Posted On Februar 16, 2013By Christopher G. MooreIn Crimemag, Kolumnen und Themen

Christopher G. Moore: Views from Bangkok

Christopher G. Moore war in Melbourne und hat etwas über Angst gelernt – und wie man sie herstellt: Creating Fear Fear is one of the basic emotions that springs automatically from a threat. It can be a real threat or a symbolic threat. A lion charging at you is a real threat. The story about a lion charging creates a symbolic threat. Our heart races in both cases. Evolution has equipped us with a fear mechanism that is triggered in circumstances where the risk of our survival is at stake.Read More

Posted On Februar 2, 2013By Christopher G. MooreIn Crimemag, Kolumnen und Themen

Christopher G. Moore: Views from Bangkok

Ja, was schreibt man netten Fans vorne ins Buch? Schwierig, schwierig … Und dann kommt das besagte Werk antiquarisch wieder zum Autor zurück. Und was muss er lesen? Christopher gesteht ein paar Sünden: Author’s Dedications in Second Hand Books What does an author do when he sees a secondhand copy of his book in a bookstore? I have been thinking about this having recently seen a secondhand copy of The Wisdom of Beer As I can’t cover all second hand bookstores, I’d like any reader who finds a copy toRead More

Posted On Januar 26, 2013By Christopher G. MooreIn Crimemag, Kolumnen und Themen

Christopher G. Moore: Views from Bangkok

… Schriftsteller und Macht – ein prekäres Verhältnis. Auf jeden Fall sollen Schriftsteller dem „Staat“ misstrauen und ihm auf die Finger sehen. Christopher G. Moore und ein paar Gleichgesinnte, darunter Schwergewichte wie Gary Phillips, haben sich zur Orwell Brigade zusammengetan, um genau das zu tun: kritisch zu beobachten! The State of Fear The first reaction to a threat or a possible threat is one of fear or anger. We are emotional by default and once our feeling and intuitions are engaged, our so-called rational mind’s duty is to justify theRead More

Posted On Januar 19, 2013By Christopher G. MooreIn Crimemag, Kolumnen und Themen

Christopher G. Moore: Views from Bangkok

Musen sind ein schönes, antikes Konzept. Kein Mensch traut sich heute, von seiner Muse zu sprechen. Warum eigentlich? Ein Bekenntnis von Christopher G. Moore. Author’s Muse Everyone author has a muse. Along with painters, composers, dancers, and other performing artists. The muse has a long tradition. The Greeks had many gods and goddesses, but the one writers and artist are most fond of is called the Muse. An artist might be an atheist when it comes to God and religion but the Muse makes the most logical and skeptical ofRead More

Posted On Januar 12, 2013By Christopher G. MooreIn Crimemag, Kolumnen und Themen

Christopher G. Moore: Views from Bangkok

Nichts ist kurzsichtiger und irreführender als „Genregeschichte“, die so tut, als ob sie rein genre-intern bleiben könnte. Christopher G. Moore zeigt anhand des vielgeschundenen Begriffs „noir“, wie man Literaturgeschichte auch und notfalls viel sinnvoller sortieren könnte: Orwell, Koestler and the Noir Brigade International Crime Authors Reality Check is written by a group of professional authors who measure their literary work with an authenticity ruler. As 2012 winds down, I’d like to look at the tradition of two authors: George Orwell and Arthur Koestler who have had influence on my ownRead More

Posted On Dezember 22, 2012By Christopher G. MooreIn Crimemag, Kolumnen und Themen

Christopher G. Moore: Views from Bangkok

Zum Jahresabschluss gibt’s mit Christopher G. Moore was zum Lachen, über die in der realen Kriminalstatistik leider öfters als in Kriminalromanen – ja, die Ausnahmen von George V. Higgings bis Carl Hiaasen sind großartig – vorkommenden strunzdummen, brotblöden und grenzdebilen Kriminellen – kurz: Dumb Criminals The murky world of criminal has its fair share of morons. In the noir world, criminals are aggressive, sinister, violent and unstable. In the real world there is are all kinds of people who aren’t good at their chosen occupation. Some people don’t have whatRead More

Posted On Dezember 8, 2012By Christopher G. MooreIn Crimemag, Kolumnen und Themen

Christopher G. Moore: Views from Bangkok

Realpolitik, Geschichte, Legenden, alte Gespenster und Mr. President – ein Kommentar zur Lage: Ghost Whisperes in Asia President Obama spent Sunday 18th November in Thailand, Monday 19th November (six hours) in Burma and Monday/Tuesday 19th and 20th in Cambodia. Along the way he bumped into the history of a region. Like a nine headed naga history raised its heads and spit fire from the caves of local politics, culture, and prejudices. You wouldn’t have seen the fire-eating dragons of history captured in the photographs taken along Obama’s three-day journey. Instead whatRead More

Posted On Dezember 1, 2012By Christopher G. MooreIn Crimemag, Kolumne

Christopher G. Moore: Views from Bangkok

Was sind Omnishambles, was hat es mit The Evil Man of Krabi  auf sich? Momente des globalen Wahnsinns von Christopher G. Moore, in der Tat Thai Style. Omnishambles Thai Style The Oxford Dictionary has included a new word in their 2012 edition—omnishambles, which is defined as “a situation that has been comprehensively mismanaged, characterized by a string of blunders and miscalculations.” The tradition in Thailand is to shortened long words. There is a good chance that omnishambles will enter the Thai vocabulary as something like ‘om’. The shortened word hasRead More

Posted On Oktober 20, 2012By Christopher G. MooreIn Crimemag, Kolumnen und Themen

Christopher G. Moore: Views from Bangkok

James Bond darf es, Modesty Blaise darf es, Jack Reacher will es nicht, aber für Vincent Calvino wär’s doch eine schöne Möglichkeit – schick angezogen sein. Christopher G. Moore über Mode für seine Helden: Crime Fiction & Fashion As social creatures, in strict accordance with a primate nature, we can’t help but measure our rank and status. Writers are no different. The chatter about foreign rights, film options, foreign rights, audio rights, large print editions, paperback deals, best seller lists, sales figures, advances are just some of the many waysRead More

Posted On September 29, 2012By Christopher G. MooreIn Crimemag, Kolumnen und Themen

Christopher G. Moore: Views from Bangkok

Heute ein bisschen Handwerk – welches Autoren-Foto schreckt ab, welches hilft, ein Buch zu verkaufen? Über die Macht eines keinesfalls nebensächlichen Paratextes: What Author Photograph Sells a BOOK? I have some books coming out soon. Someone suggested I needed a new photograph for the place on the back cover where an author’s photo appears. I’d rather stick with photographs from an earlier day. But that is a mistake. We all age and the entertainment business (which books form a part) is biased toward youth. No one can get away fromRead More

Posted On September 22, 2012By Christopher G. MooreIn Crimemag, Kolumnen und Themen

Christopher G. Moore: Views from Bangkok

Privatdetektive gehören zum Grundbestand des Genres, obwohl sie längst ihre Dominanz gegen andere Typen von Hauptfiguren verloren haben. Aber die, die es noch gibt, sind ziemlich nützliche Kerlchen – man kann mit ihnen vieles machen: Literarisch und „erkenntnistheoretisch“, sozusagen. Christopher G. Moore hat mit Vincent Calvino einen der spannendsten PIs der neueren Kriminalliteratur erfunden – hier ein bisschen Selbstreflektion mit programmatischem Charakter: Private Eyes Riding the Time Machine My German translator Peter Friedrich made a recent observation about the Vincent Calvino series that I’ve been thinking about. Peter said: DidRead More

Posted On September 15, 2012By Christopher G. MooreIn Crimemag, Kolumnen und Themen

Christopher G. Moore: Views from Bangkok

Die e-Book-Debatte bei uns geht weiter, heute mit einem Beitrag von Christopher G. Moore … The Gold Miner’s Shovel in the eBook Gold Rush The great California Gold Rush of 1849 drew thousands of people who dreamed of striking it rich by panning for gold. One lesson of ’49 was the people who found riches weren’t the miners but those who sold them shovels, pans, buckets and pots. Another lesson is that whenever there is a gold rush, those not caught up in the fever figure out a way toRead More

Posted On September 1, 2012By Christopher G. MooreIn Crimemag, Kolumnen und Themen

Christopher G. Moore: Views from Bangkok

Christopher G. Moore diesmal über essentielle Dinge – über’s Schreiben, über Glück und Pech und Geld und kein Geld. Rolling the Dice Let’s say you’ve written a book. Or maybe you are thinking about writing a book. It might be a crime novel set in an exotic location. It might be a domestic comedy set in your hometown. But let’s not become sidetracked by worrying about location, theme, or characters. It’s more important to think about what it means to write a book. Or more precisely what it takes, orRead More

Posted On August 25, 2012By Christopher G. MooreIn Crimemag, Kolumnen und Themen

Christopher G. Moore: Views from Bangkok

Ein unangenehmes, beklemmendes, aber notwendiges Thema, nicht nur in Thailand – Hinrichtungen. Christopher G. Moore über Täter, Zeugen und Opfer. Presumption of Innocence Until Executed The lag between penning an editorial and breaking news can seem an eternity even when the two appear in the same edition of the newspaper. A Thai death penalty case has created a perfect journalistic storm with editors praising while reporter updates undermine and destroy the basis of such praise. On 1st August, The Bangkok Post in an editorial titled “Sending the right Signals” supportedRead More

Posted On August 18, 2012By Christopher G. MooreIn Crimemag, Kolumnen und Themen

Christopher G. Moore: Views from Bangkok

Letzte Woche konnten wir den zweiten Teil der Noir Fiction Barbarians lesen. Heute geht es Christopher G. Moore um ein in der Tat universales Thema – um Gier … We Need To Have a Talk About Greed The impulse motivating a lot of crime is greed. The outlier wants money for drugs, hot cars or motorcycles, beautiful women, expensive restaurants, foreign holidays—what are perceived as the good things that rich people, or at least well off people, use to identify themselves as successful, desirable, and admirable. Not to mention moreRead More

Posted On August 4, 2012By Christopher G. MooreIn Crimemag, Kolumnen und Themen

Christopher G. Moore: Views from Bangkok

Was haben Hacker, Beethoven, russische Tänzer und Noir Fiction miteinander zu tun? Eine Idee von Christopher G. Moore. Noir Fiction Mind Hacks – Part 1 I have been playing with the idea that noir crime authors are a subset of hackers into the hive mind collectively shared by their readers. A few years ago I wrote about Writing Novels inside the Hive Mind.  I’d like to further develop this metaphor along with the related idea of hacking. It is mixing of metaphors to be sure. I hope to show thatRead More

Posted On Juli 14, 2012By Christopher G. MooreIn Crimemag, Kolumnen und Themen

Christopher G. Moore: Views from Bangkok

Christopher G. Moore war auf Reisen. Und in Buenos Aires, dieser durch und durch literarischen Stadt, fiel ihm auf, dass etwas zu fehlen schien. Ironie … The Death of Literary Irony Irony has been the stock and trade of novelists through the ages. George Orwell’s The Hanging is a perfect example of dramatic irony. We follow a condemned Burmese man on his way to the gallows as he carefully sidestepping the puddle of water along the path so as not to dirty his shoes. Or Shooting an Elephant we witnessRead More

Posted On Juni 23, 2012By Christopher G. MooreIn Bücher, Crimemag

Christopher G. Moore: Views from Bangkok Bücher

Heute geht es Christopher G. Moore schlicht und einfach um das Verhältnis schreibender Menschen zur Wahrheit … The Writer as Truth Seeker – Those who write to support the guardians of received truth, wisdom or belief are caretakers working a garden owned, planted, and harvested according to the garden owners. Like ground staff at airports they take their orders from those above them. Those in authority have used writers as hand wavers for their version of truth and reality. What is being guarded in the name of truth? Mainly itRead More

Posted On Mai 26, 2012By Christopher G. MooreIn Bücher, Crimemag

Christopher G. Moore: Views from Bangkok

Heute: Non olet – Christopher G. Moore über Alltagsverbrechen, über Landwirtschaft, Scheiße, blanke Gier und organisierte Kriminalität.  When Poo has the wrong bad smell Governments in most places want to help citizens who struggle to make a living. Thailand is no exception. The law of unintended consequence unfortunately comes into play when government policy attempts to control market forces. Greed is a bulldozer that ploughs through Wall Street, it also rolls through the rubber plantations and rice fields of Asia. In the South of Thailand there are many rubber plantations.Read More

Posted On Mai 19, 2012By Christopher G. MooreIn Crimemag, Kolumnen und Themen

Christopher G. Moore: Views from Bangkok

Erst kein Glück, dann kommt auch noch Pech dazu, wie eine Fußballer-Weisheit lautet. Gilt auch für alle Arten von Verbrechen, reale und literarische … Christopher G. Moore über Pannen & Co. … When Things Go Terribly Wrong in the World of Crime The laws of unintended consequences and collateral damage apply to criminals just like they do anyone else.  I’d like to give some examples of ‘crimes’ that might have the judge and jury shedding tears—ones of laughter. In South Carolina A driver went to the trouble to find aRead More

Posted On Mai 5, 2012By Christopher G. MooreIn Allgemein, Crimemag

Christopher G. Moore: Views from Bangkok

Heute geht es um ein so klassisches Thema, dass man sich wundert, warum darüber so selten gesprochen wird: Gift! Enjoy … Poison Mental test: What is the first weapon that comes into your head when I ask you to name a murder weapon? Chances are you’d choose a gun, bomb, knife, sword, and a blunt instrument. My guess is that you wouldn’t have chosen poison. For young readers you might think of the band named Poison. They have shiny chrome skulls on their website. From 331 BC The Romans usedRead More

Posted On April 14, 2012By Christopher G. MooreIn Crimemag

Christopher G. Moore: Views from Bangkok

Christopher G. Moore heute über Schriftsteller, Schriftstellerdarsteller, Wannabees und wirklich kreative Menschen. Und über Freiheit!   The Invisible Man Last week I was at a gathering, which included an American from Kentucky who was passing through Bangkok. He had stories about George Clooney and other famous people from his State. The conversation turned to what young people in the United States aspired to in life. The answer from the American guest was simple: “They want to be famous.” In a celebrity driven culture that should come as no surprise. FameRead More