Sturla Jón Jónsson, the fifty-something building superintendent and sometimes poet, has been invited to a poetry festival in Vilnius, Lithuania, appointed, as he sees it, as the official representative of the people of Iceland to the field of...
The author of the headline making GNARR! How I Became the Mayor of a Large City in Iceland and Changed the World (Melville House, 2014), former comedian (and mayor) Jón Gnarr now turns his lens from politics to tell his life story in his literary...
"An Icelandic-punk version of Catcher in the Rye." — Dallas Morning News
"If there were more people like Jón Gnarr the world wouldn't be in such a mess." — Oliver Sacks
The second book in a trilogy chronicling the troubled childhood...