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Our Front Table

In homage to the Seminary Co-Op at the University of Chicago, Our Front Table outlines our reading list comprised of authors and pieces we are enjoying or mega love. Additionally, we also highlight bookstores we visit around the city of Los Angeles.

Books: Top Picks

The Nineties: A Book by Chuck Klosterman / Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent by Isabel Wilkerson / A Place at the Mayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community by Natalia Molina /
Neruda on the Park by Cleyvis Natera

El Hoyo Maravilla

by Janette Beckman / One summer in the early 1980s Janette Beckman, best known for her photographs of British punks and skins as well as the emerging hip-hop scene in NY and LA, was introduced to members of the LA gang El Hoyo Maravilla.

Bresson on Bresson: Interviews, 1943-1983

by Robert Bresson / A collection of interviews ranging over 40 years from Robert Bresson, one of the most influential French film directors who created such cinematic master-pieces as Pickpocket and A Man Escaped.

Books: Top Picks

I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes / Blow Up by Julio Cortazar / Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia / Made in L.A.: Beyond the Precipice - Volume 4 by Cody Sisco / The Best American Essays: 2020 by Robert Atwan / Speculative: Los Angeles by Denise Hamilton / Extra Life by Steven Johnson / Noise by Daniel Kahneman / End of October by Lawrence Wright

Megacity Review Top Book Shops / Based in Echo Park, des pair books is a brick and mortar bookstore that offers a curated selection of new releases, film and art books, and some of the founder's personal favorites. The walls of the bookshop are adorned with a rotating list of practicing artists each season.

Books: Top Shops

Based in Echo Park, des pair books is a brick and mortar bookstore that offers a curated selection of new releases, film and art books, and some of the founder's personal favorites. The walls of the bookshop are adorned with a rotating list of practicing artists each season.

Books: Top Picks

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND / Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent by Isabel Wilkerson / A Place at the Mayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community by Natalia Molina / Neruda on the Park by Cleyvis Natera

Brown and Gay in L.A.: The Lives of Immigrant Sons

by Anthony Christian Ocampo / Detailing his own story of reconciling his queer Filipino American identity, Ocampo shows what it was like for him and other young men to grow up gay in an immigrant family and in White gay spaces.