Can a community be silenced by construction? Imagine a place of safety, of community, of culture. Eso Won Books, an independently owned African-American bookstore in the heart of the Leimert Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, is that community center....
Laurence Roth | Apr 12, 2015
Eso Won Books has a relatively small retail space in the Leimert Park neighborhood of South Los Angeles. The store is composed of one open room with bookshelves lining the walls and smaller, freestanding cases in the center of the room. There are tables of...
Laurence Roth | Mar 12, 2015
If you go to yelp.com and search for Eso Won Books, you’ll see that Eso Won bookstore is the first store to pop up, unless you forgot to change the location to Los Angeles. Then maybe Swan’s Fine Books or Barnes and Nobles near San Francisco, may be your first...
Laurence Roth | Feb 15, 2015