/lit/ - Literature

Pros
>huge selection of cheap secondhand books, refreshed almost every week
>located near good coffee shops and the metro
>has a security check that keeps all the DTLA homeless people out so you can actually get seating and it doesn't smell like rotten milk


Cons
>upstairs art is cringy
>instagram bait stuff like book tunnel and book square
>not enough seating

>>7514569
>huge, fantastic bookstore and record shop in Downtown LA called Last Bookstore
>great selection of used books
>pick up Life of Samuel Johnson, Memoirs of an Anti-Semite, and Chekhov: The Major Plays
>spend less than $10
>hear there's an open-mic night every month
>aspiring poet and musician
>think, "This will be great! I'll play some songs and meet some new people!"
>show up
>open mic night hosts are a lesbian filipina and a chubby, liturgical black dude
>fat black women everywhere of the Toni Morrison generation
>permavirgin, old white weirdos of the Zappa type
>tryhard young females turning around in their seats to look at everyone really eagerly
>one guy does a somewhat clever song about cigarette addiction
>one big black woman does an extended poem about getting fucked by her big black boyfriend only to end it with "and then we hung up our phones"
>"omg lel so funee"
>old, weird permavirgin tells very lewd story about scammer photographer that sounds like he's told it a hundred times before
>realize in Downtown LA
>peak of #blacklivesmatter
>my type of introspective and fantastical lyrics and songs will get a terrible response and make people feel bad about their lives
>take my guitar and leave
>still haven't been back