Unpacking the Bookstore

It Takes a Community to Raise a Bookstore

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....

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How to Sell Books in a Shoe-Box: Eso Won Books

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...

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