Over at тнє ѕυℓтαη’ѕ ѕєαℓ, Youssef Rakha, Egyptian novelist, journalist and photographer, has posted an excerpt from “Penina’s Letters.” Penina has just picked up Salty at the airport, and they are driving to the beach and up into Refugio. Fly on over to Youssef’s “Cairo’s Coolest Cosmoplitan Hotel” and check out the the excerpt.

“Penina’s Letters” has turned up in some interesting places the past few weeks:

in a bike shop in Seattle
on plane to LA
on Hawthorne Blvd
at the Backstage pool hall
at Voodoo doughnut
at Lucky Lab
in Mazatlan
in a row of cookbooks