Chris Aaland

Ask the cyclista The Colorado Safety Stop and who is the real a$$hole Life in the slow lane Opportunity and frustrations for cycling infrastructure in Durango Brace for impact Riding the post-election roller coaster with support from a village Bicycle-unfriendly For being a ‘bike town,’ Durango scores surprisingly dismal on annual rankings Kiss my asterisk Riders who dare thumb their noses at pro cycling’s strict "code of conduct" On the sag wagon Forced downtime always easier with a little...

In January 2019, I received a reviewer’s galley from Cinco Puntos Press, a publisher I hadn’t known or heard of. The book turned out to be the dreamy gamble of two bookish friends quartered in a rented or borrowed storefront in downtown El Paso, Texas. I love the surprise of handpicked and loved books from gutsy, low-volume, literary entrepreneurs. And who but the genuinely undaunted would presume to make a go of publishing English language novels in a city that’s nearly 90% percent Hispanic?

William Boyle is the author of eight books set in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The population of Brooklyn hovers around 3 million, as compared with the resident population of Manhattan at around 2 million and The Bronx at a million and a half. The three are the most populated boroughs of New York City and home to concentrations of immigrants from everywhere in the world.