Check out L.A.'s new bookstores and Feb. 23 book club night with Brendan Slocumb and ‘The Violin Conspiracy.’
“We’ve been able to pool our funds together, pool our resources and really find inspiration and strength,” Belfer says.
The new collective hosts events and pop-up vendors just starting out. “We’ve all found it’s so hard to break into the retail space and event space if you don’t have the kind of money and the kind of experience,” Belfer says. “But maybe you have a really great idea … People are giving space to them so they can realize their dream and start testing it out, to see to if there’s an audience for what they’re doing.
Belfer says her own manuscript is on hold for now while she’s running two bookstores — as well as organizing a boozy book fair, community festivals at two Long Beach libraries and new expeditions for fellow readers to other bookstores across the area. “We go between L.A., Long Beach and Orange County. There’s a core group of people who keep coming, and we always get a few new people every time.”are opening their doors at near-opposite ends of Los Angeles County.
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