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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:
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
#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:
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