Lars is not in Norway at the moment, and if you look closely at this image of Nusfjord, Norway . . . you still won’t see him. Now would be a great time to buy his latest book as a vote in favor of seeing another such book come to press.

Amazon.com’s top sellers in fiction at the moment are Stieg Larsson’s novels–all of them, I think–Jonathan Franzen’s latest called Freedom, and something from unknown author Nicholas Sparks. What? You’ve heard of Sparks? Is he any good? (No offense, Mr. Sparks. May I give your shoes another shine?)