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
California native, Lewis Buzbee, wrote a memoir titled The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop, where he describes his first time in Printers Inc. Upon entry, he says it feels like a bookstore and shaped like a shoe-box, explaining, "One narrow end of the shoe-box opened into...
Laurence Roth | Mar 20, 2015
The 1990s brought new changes to the world. The Cold War had just ended as the Berlin Wall fell months before, bringing a hope of peace and safety. A new generation of style and music began as my generation was born. In 1990, a small bookstore opened in Los...
Laurence Roth | Feb 16, 2015