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Notes from a bookseller/writer. Creativity and commerce, publishing and human nature, recommendations and regrets, trouble and desire.

About Mo Daviau

Bookseller in Portland (not at the big place). Novelist and essayist. New novel, EPIC AND LOVELY, coming fall 2025 from WVU Press.

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