There Was No Seat for Me at the Luxury Restaurant. By Dessert, They Regretted It

booked a trip to Iceland because of a travel essay collection I’d recommended to him. He wanted to discuss a coffee bar adjacent to my bookstore: shared revenue, his expertise, my foot traffic and the loyalty of customers who came not because they happened to be walking past but because they’d made a decision to be there.

Patricia Aldridge came last,continue reading …