Black Sun Bookstore
Sounds like my kind of place, and also a dream of mine for a long, long time. Wouldn’t it be nice to see small, locally owned bookstores really make a comeback all across the country? You see ‘em a lot on the West coast. Fayetteville, Arkansas has a good one. Moab has one of the best, Back of Beyond.
Well, here’s another with an Abbey theme.
Tiny bookstore fulfills big dream For 16 years, Peter Ogura has been living his dream of running a neighborhood bookstore
By Randi Bjornstad
The Register-Guard
Peter Ogura lives the dream of book lovers everywhere, surrounded every day by thousands of volumes in his very own bookstore. Of course, unlike the dream, he doesn’t get to spend every day with his nose in a book, looking up just long enough to wave a customer toward the right shelf or ring up a purchase before turning back to his pages.
No, like the owner of any small business — and at 900 square feet, Black Sun Books doesn’t take up much space — Ogura attends to nearly all the details of running the shop himself, as he has for the past 16 years and as he will indefinitely because it’s what he always wanted to do….
…The name of his store — Black Sun — comes from the title of a lesser-known work of Edward Abbey, a natural history and conservation writer whom Ogura admires and whose portrait looks down from the wall above the door inside the store.
“I thought about naming the store after one of his best-known works, but ‘The Monkey Wrench Gang’ just didn’t seem like a good name for a bookstore,” he quipped….
The full story is here.
well he started out with john nichols and hunter…the guy has it goin’ on. i’m adding him to my list of heros.