The Little Paris Bookshop

September 17, 2015
There are two things I have to do whenever I’m near Leavenworth, Washington. I must eat at South, arguably the best Mexican restaurant in the...

Mailbag: August ARCs

September 15, 2015
I never understood the idea of “small dreams” until I started receiving unsolicited advance reader copies (ARCs) of soon-to-be-published books in the mail, and felt...

Reykjavik Style

September 13, 2015
My first trip to Reykjavik was for Airwaves in 2012. That fall it seemed like Icelanders wore a uniform, epitomized in Asgeir Trausti’s outfit of...

Summer of Silence

September 9, 2015
Last summer was all about the festival. I walked down the street to the Fremont Solstice Fair, traveled to a remote fjord in Iceland for...

Drum Lights

September 6, 2015
  Light fixtures in the stairwell of the old Gamli Gaukurinn bar in Reykjavik....