War on Retail? Radical Bookseller Opens Brick-and-Mortar in Roanoke

The Roanoke Rambler

War on Retail? Radical Bookseller Opens Brick-and-Mortar in Roanoke

War on Books owner Angelo Colavita, right, chats with customers Hallelujah and Seth Moritz. PHOTO BY HENRI GENDREAU FOR THE ROANOKE RAMBLERRoanoke’s War on Books has come for the retail store.The pop-up bookstore trading in radical literature opened a brick-and-mortar on Friday in the city’s trendy West End neighborhood.Proprietor Angelo Colavita and Isobel O'Hare founded the mobile venture a little over a year ago. (The couple has since separat…