Book Report: Tómas Jónsson, Best-Seller
Here’s a first: I am writing about a book I didn’t finish. My fascination with Icelandic literature is well documented (I couldn’t even pick a...
A Bookish Saga
On my first trip to Iceland, I naively bragged that I had read all the sagas. My listener was too polite to do more than...
Atlas of an Anxious Man
Is it an atlas of the man himself, or an atlas of the world as seen by the anxious man? Is the anxious man author...
The Little Paris Bookshop
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...
Looking at the grave of the invisible man
Spolia (the literary magazine associated with The Bookslut) has released a chapbook of Sjón's poems called at the grave of the invisible man, translated by...