A customer pays Ruswendi (left) at his bicycle workshop in Jakarta, Indonesia, on March 15th, 2017. (Photo: Bay Ismoyo/AFP/Getty Images)
How Ken Layne Created a Publishing Oasis in a Desert Town of 8,000 People
Ken Layne's quarterly magazine, Desert Oracle, tries to give readers a sense of the profound solitude—and weirdness—of the Mojave Desert.