Bernard Trink
Seth Mydans at the New York Times profiles Bernard Trink, entertainment editor of the Bangkok Post and a longtime chronicler, critic and booster of Thailand's red-light industry. "In 37 years of pub crawling, he has become a monument to the world he writes about — neighborhoods of go-go clubs, beer bars and massage parlors that dispense sex to all comers in an atmosphere of joyous amorality. Caravansaries, he calls them in the odd patois he has created; boîtes, dramshops, gin mills, taprooms, watering holes, all offering damsels, lasses, demimondaines and maidens." (Nov 2002)
A new biography recounts the life of Thai journalist Bernard Trink, whose column in the Bangkok Post has chronicled Thailand's commercial sex culture for thirty-five years.
Time Asia (Oct 200)
In summer 2000, an unauthorized biography of Trink was published in Thailand, But, I Don't Give A Hoot!: The Life and Time of Bernard Trink by fellow Post staff writer Jennifer Bliss. Trink himself reviewed the book for the Post and called it a "more detailed picture of yours truly than found in inane hatchet jobs. It's not the autobiography that I would have written, but it touches the bases and is fair." (Jul 2000)
