City Lights bookstore is considered something of a Beatnik mecca. Tourists come from all over the world to wander around this bookstore that Kerouac, Ginsberg, and so many others called home. But as that cliché saying goes, don’t judge a book by its cover. Or in...
Laurence Roth | Nov 18, 2013
Being a poet the first section that I always seek out in any bookstore is the poetry section, and with my exploration of City Lights the same was true. I learned from reading the City Lights Bookstore webpage that their poetry is upstairs, and the Beat Literature...
Laurence Roth | Oct 20, 2013
A Literary Meeting Place: The History of City Lights Bookstore Post World War II culture in the United States was predicated on conformity and normalcy. But in the world of poetry, literature and writing, a movement began in the 1940s that rebelled against...
Laurence Roth | Sep 30, 2013