The Los Angeles Times chooses Small World Books as its “bookstore of the week.”
Today the spray paint is gone; graffiti offerings can be found instead among the art books. The bookstore, which is about 2,000 square feet, has a good selection of contemporary fiction and nonfiction, as well as travel books, cultural studies, mysteries, science fiction, young adult and art books. Last year the store moved some bookshelves to create space to hang art; it's now one of the anchors of the Venice Art Crawl, which happens on the third Thursday of every month.