Boxed Out: 4 Bookstores in L.A. During COVID-19

Kayla Vokolek
7 min readOct 27, 2020

I acknowledge that pleas to support independent bookstores, especially during the pandemic, are nothing original. Just recently, The New York Times highlighted how crucial it is to support local bookstores. And the American Booksellers’ Association, or the ABA, recently launched their “Boxed Out” campaign to encourage people to shop indie, complete with cardboard installations covering bookstores across the country, indicating how indie bookstores have been shut out by Amazon deliveries. So while articles like these may sound repetitive, as the pandemic wreaks havoc on the…

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Kayla Vokolek

Pursuing MFA in Nonfiction Writing at Portland State