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EPISODE · Jan 31, 2024 · 26 MIN

LA Lit: Indie Booksellers Share More Recs On Best Books About The City

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#227: Today, we’re once again enlisting some local independent booksellers to help us understand L.A. better. This time we headed to Tía Chucha's Centro Cultural & Bookstore in Sylmar, Octavia's Bookshelf in Pasadena, Vroman's Bookstore in Pasadena and Reparations Club near West Adams. Books mentioned: "Ask the Dust" by John Fante "Mercurochrome: New Poems" by Wanda Coleman "Always Running" by Luis J. Rodriguez "Kindred" by Octavia Butler "Parable of the Sower" by Octavia Butler "The Lost Cause" by Cory Doctorow "KAOS Theory: The Afrokosmic Ark of Ben Caldwell" by Robeson Taj Frazier with Ben Caldwell "There Goes the Neighborhood" by Jade Adia "The White Boy Shuffle" by Paul Beatty "South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s" by Kellie Jones

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