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
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...
Laurence Roth | Mar 13, 2015