about me

*Kase Lembach: Defecting at aged 7 in 1988 from the former Czechoslovakia while on vacation with my parents in Split, I immigrated initially to the U.S., where I graduated from Wittenberg College in Ohio. I then returned to Europe, living in Prague and London. After my ex-partner and I broke-up in 2003, I returned to the U.S. I now live in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, with my dogs, where I write, and provide Czech language tours to visitors. Of course, I travel as much as possible. I have long been dissatisfied with the standard travel guide-books (they always miss so much), and after meeting a like-minded person in Zip, while traveling to Argentina, I knew we would write the urban guidebook the world needed to read.

**Zip Coade: I am a surfer, macrame artist and, of course writer. I run a laundromat and surf shop in Encinitas, California, where I live with my girlfriend Kailua. As a championship boogie-boarder and surfer, I've traveled to some of the coolest beaches in the world, not to mention cities. As a child of the American West, I am drawn to the big vistas and open spaces of the Pacific coast. My parents are part-owners of the Double Bar-Coade Ranch, and I am related to U.S. Rep. Jed Coade (R-MT).

D.N. Gothenburg...is the pen-name of a U.S. writer, and the creator of the alter-egos who wrote, "The Hottest Guide to Secret Urban Neighborhoods. He is a former journalist, editor and online producer, who now writes, tutors and teaches on the West Coast of the U.S, where he lives with his dog, and and enjoys biking, cooking, reading, movie-going, traveling, as well as making tart, politically-incorrect comments about the various demographic groups to which he belongs.

Gothenburg is pleased to be a part of the Authonomy community and hopes to read and comment upon many books during his time here.

favourite books

The Master Butchers Singing Club (Louise Erdrich)
Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer (Steven Millhauser)
Germinal (Emile Zola)
On Beauty (Zadie Smith)
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (Charles Dickens)
Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson)
The Great Railway Bazaar (Paul Theroux)
The Namesake (Jumpa Lahiri)
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey (Candice Millard)
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1879-1914 (David McCollough)
My Early Life (Winston S. Churchill)
The Life of Elizabeth I (Alison Weir)

my websites