I first met Kevin Sampsell back in 1994. I doubt he remembers the day, but for me it was significant. I was standing at the counter of Conant and Conant booksellers, a now defunct independent bookstore in Portland and scene of my first post-collegiate job, and a guy walked in holding a stack of shiny …
Michael Heald is the publisher of the small Portland press Perfect Day Publishing and the author of its fourth release, Goodbye to the Nervous Apprehension. The first three Perfect Day books made the Portland Mercury’s Best of 2011 list, and the anonymous memoir Love Is Not Constantly Wondering If You Are Making the Biggest Mistake …
“Each one of the stories in this collection was soooo good! While they’re mostly set in Portland, they’re a rich, sometimes somber portrait of America. Raymond created wonderful little worlds in every story with very believable relationships between the characters. After each story I felt like I’d just finished a novel they were so full. …
