Sophie Heawood of UK’s Independent takes in the LA bookscape and marvels at a thriving scene.
There’s one shop called Skylight Books, where they had to hastily scrawl signs saying “full to capacity” last night, after so many people crowded on to the street to see hit author Dave Eggers talk about his new book and sign copies…
Then there’s Family, an intriguing shop that celebrates local underground talent, selling writing by a bunch of old drunks like Charles Bukowski and a generation of DIY-published new ones…
And then there’s the wonderful and enormous Book Soup, stocking 60,000 hand-picked titles on that same Sunset Strip where Hugh Grant hand-picked his prostitute…
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