Eso Won, L.A.'s beloved Black-owned bookstore,
will be closing its physical shop
Posted By: earlybird, 6/15/2022 10:40:31 AM
Eso Won Books, L.A's widely beloved Black-owned independent bookstore, will be closing its bricks-and-mortar store at the end of the year. James Fugate, co-owner of the 33-year-old Leimert Park bookstore, confirmed the news to Publisher's Weekly (snip)The intimate, venerable African American bookstore has hosted book signings by some of the country's most celebrated Black authors and luminaries, including Spike Lee, Ibram X. Kendi, Muhammad Ali, Maya Angelou, Octavia E. Butler, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates and a young senator from Illinois named Barack Obama.
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Hate to pass judgment on a plac I have never visited, but based on comments in this article, it sounds as though this was a place where black-authored books on the “black experience” “filled in the blanks”. Very busy during the BLM riots. Sounds sort of like Propaganda Central.