Fordham Books is a wonderful tiny bookstore located in the Foster Powell neighborhood in Portland.

The Passion Project started a few years ago, tucked into a meeting hall on a side street off Foster,

a sole clapboard, the only signage for what was then known as Word Virus Books.

My wife and I had lived in the hood for over two years before we even noticed it.

Then, when a barbershop moved a few blocks closer to Powell,

the bookstore took over the slightly larger and more easily findable location. Like many business owners in Portland,

marketing does not seem to be their forte.

And then at some point, Word virus became boredom,

though I'm not sure if it's under the same ownership

or they just changed their name.

Word virus reopened in Southwest.

Nothing else about the store has changed since it opened on Foster, however.

Dax Devlon Ross, who's been a guest on this podcast four times and is one of my closest friends,

was visiting from D.C. last weekend.

He stopped by en route to a speaking engagement in San Francisco, as well as to

record the audiobook for his new novel, The Memory Palace. After the Sunday recording session,

we got some air and walked over to boredom. Wherever we live and whenever we've traveled together,

we always hit up bookstores.

And boredom is the type of store where you don't go looking for anything in particular.

You go in to look around and see what you discover.

And like a great curated record shop, that's exactly my favorite kind of bookstore.

I've read most of Colinumacan's novels,

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