Unpacking the Bookstore

A Space for Sharing Personal Stories

Eso Won Books is open for business as well as conversation as the open layout shows. There is space to move around, to walk, to pull up a chair and listen. Many photos of the bookstore show the large area with the capacity for at least three rows of chairs. It is...

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Just Come In and Browse: Eso Won Books’ Past

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...

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Pouring Poems into the Open Arms: Eso Won Books

"Take long stares at your hand until true love returns to your touch Then touch Stand right in a garment of light I want to pour poems into the open arms of your drums I want to get in between your piano keys and unleash the healing secrets" –Kamau Da'ood, "Leimert...

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