Tales of Brave Bookstore
by Mo Daviauin 📚 Literature
Tales of Brave Bookstore
About the Substack
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, now available from WVU Press.
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