This is a really heartening thread that echoes my experience travelling in the US over the past 3 weeks on book tour: the contrast between the horrors in the news & the joy of meeting readers & booksellers is a kind of tense engine, the former inextricable from the latter, producing vivid solidarity
being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:

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