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

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

    FromHow To LA

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

    FromHow To LA

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    Length:
    26 minutes
    Released:
    Jan 31, 2024
    Format:
    Podcast episode

    Description

    #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
    "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
    "White Boy Shuffle" by Paul Beatty
    "South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s" by Kelli Jones
    Released:
    Jan 31, 2024
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    How to L.A. aims to drop a little knowledge about ALL the things that affect the people of Los Angeles, whether that’s something that makes our city great (tacos!) or something that we need to work on, like the alarming number of traffic collisions. We serve the curious Angeleno who wants to better connect with our city, discover the new, navigate the confusing and even drive some change along the way.  Support for this podcast is made possible by Gordon and Dona Crawford, who believe that quality journalism makes Los Angeles a better place to live. This program is made possible in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the American people.