"It will be interesting to see how they put on a Winter Olympics in a hot beach town," he says.
"I'd love to go somewhere with a hot beach and just start writing my next album".
Perhaps this month's hot beach days and family vacations are the reason for the welter of new page-turning thrillers and novels about mother-daughter relations.
It features Summer Guide 2011, a scrapbook-style collage-turned-PDF that offers tips on the best outdoor dining and open-air drinking, "summer-ific" warm-weather events and the perfect salon for "hot beach hair".
Before me is a sizzling hot beach resplendent with palm umbrellas, sun loungers and two beach cafes, where people lie on hot-pink bean bags, nodding to chilled-out tunes.
Knoll is the author of last summer's hot beach read Luckiest Girl Alive, which tells the story of Ani, who suffers a gang rape in boarding school and doesn't speak of it for years.
Not for the first time on this rain-soaked Scandinavian summer tour, we wonder whether a trip to a nice hot beach might have been a more sensible option.
This confounding story of 1904 begins with a detailed description of place – a burning hot beach near Cape Town – and a series of missed connections, both of which take on symbolic importance as four men engage in desultory conversation.
The word vacation typically conjures images of fun-filled getaways, whether it's sipping cold drinks on a hot beach; tearing down the slopes of a picturesque mountain; or taking in the cosmopolitan sights of a big city.
Two shoes are a run on a hot beach or a walk on a snow-covered road.
