John Burdett

Monday, June 11: SAN MATEO
7:00 p.m. — Signing at M is for Mystery, 86 East Third Ave., San Mateo CA 94401,
650-401-8077.

Tuesday, June 12: SAN FRANCISCO
7:00 pm — Reading, conversation and Q&A at Book Passage, 1 Ferry Building, #42, San Francisco, CA 94111, 415-835-1020.

Wednesday, June 13: SEATTLE
12:00 noon — Signing at Seattle Mystery Bookshop, 117 Cherry St., Seattle, WA 98104, 206-587-5737.
6:30 p.m. — Reading, Q&A and signing at Queen Anne Books, 1811 Queen Anne Avenue North, Seattle, WA 98109, 206-283-5624.

Thursday, June 14: DENVER
7:30 p.m. — Reading &/or Discussion, Q&A & Signing Tattered Cover, 2526 East Colfax Avenue, Denver, CO 80206.

Friday, June 15: LOS ANGELES
7:00 pm — Reading, Q&A and signing at Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Boulevard., Pasadena, CA 91101.

Saturday, June 16: LOS ANGELES
12:00 p.m. — Signing at Mysteries to Die For, 2940 Thousand Oaks Blvd., Thousand Oaks, CA 93612, 805-374-0084.
2:00 p.m. — Signing at BOOK’em Mysteries, 1118 Mission Street, South Pasadena, CA 91030, 626-799-9600.
5:30 p.m. — Signing at Mystery Bookstore, 1036-C Broxton Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90024, 310-209-0415.
6:30 p.m. — Talk, Q&A and signing, Murder by the Book, 2342 Bissonnet St., Houston, TX 77005.

Tuesday, June 19: AUSTIN, TX
7:00 p.m. — Reading, Q&A and signing, Book People, 603 North Lamar, Austin, TX 78703.

Wednesday, June 20: NEW YORK, NY
7:00 p.m. — Reading, Q&A and signing, The Strand, 828 Broadway (at 12th St).

Friday, June 22: WASHINGTON, DC
7:00 p.m. — Reading, Q&A and signing, Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20008.

1. Please describe the climate of “functional barbarism” to which Sonchai alludes. [cannot find the page reference but the phrase is memorable]

“Functional barbarism” is Sonchai’s epithet for the modern age, globalism in the most general sense. To his Buddhist eyes, the whole construct of modern society, which of course includes the modern parts of Asia, is based not only on illusion in the sense that the material world is a mere trick of perspective, but on a kind of moral illusion: we Westerners tend to think of ourselves as humane, sensitive, educated, enlightened, generous, only wanting the best for the Third World etc. To Sonchai this is grotesque nonsense.

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