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… read more →
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… read more →
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… read more →
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… read more →
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… read more →
In 1989, Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing was released and caused an uproar in the racial politics of the United States. The next year, Eso Won Books opened its… read more →
Eso Won Books in Leimert Park, Los Angeles Community is a type of family, a group of people you can talk to and share your ideas with, learn from, and… read more →
“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… read more →
Defining “place” can seem simple enough. The word is often colloquially used to describe the site someone is located in. However, there are larger implications and meanings of “place” than… read more →