
Erin Bechtol is an editor and cupcake baker at Bona Fide Books in Lake Tahoe, CA. Having recently completed a degree in English writing at the University of Nevada, Reno, she is looking forward to leaving her hometown and shifting from editing …

Erin Bechtol is an editor and cupcake baker at Bona Fide Books in Lake Tahoe, CA. Having recently completed a degree in English writing at the University of Nevada, Reno, she is looking forward to leaving her hometown and shifting from editing …

Just after the calendar flipped to 2012, I stood on a friend of a friend’s balcony in the East Village. I could see the caketopper of the Empire State Building, lit red, white and green. (Thanks to blogger ...