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Eastwind Books, an anchor for the SF Bay Area's Asian community, shuts its doors
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Date:2025-04-16 10:36:02
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Harvey Dong about the closing of the Berkeley shop Eastwind Books, and the decades he and his wife and co-owner Beatrice spent promoting Asian-American authors.
Music from Tino's Barbershop Quartet in Action, used with permission from Curtis Choy and the Manilatown Heritage Foundation.
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