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436 N. Fairfax Ave. Los Angeles CA 90036

2011 | Best "Curated" Bookstore

I say this as a semiprofessional curator myself, but there's something fantastically pretentious about "a curated bookstore." Owned by Orthodox Fairfax land barons the Harkham brothers, Family Los Angeles is just such a bookstore. Affectations aside, it's not the place one goes to discover the unusual in the stacks -- it's more of a temple to all the literary and art movements that affected underground culture, whilst trying to intuit the present one. But of course, being "in the know"... More »
2008 | L.A.'s Best Comic Book Shops: Fine-Art Comic Store

It's a distinction that enthusiasts will probably quibble with -- each comic freak is convinced that his genre of choice features the "finest" "art" (well, maybe not manga obsessives, who surely must acknowledge that the majority of its practitioners employ a lesser, more regimented pictorial delivery system) -- but for our money, Family on Fairfax is the best place to take aforementioned dismissive literature professors (and snobby art critics) to argue your point that graphic... More »

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2011 | Best "Curated" Bookstore