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
While I have never been inside of City Lights Bookstore, based on pictures, articles, and blog posts by people who have visited the store, I’ve been able to form a picture in my mind. Having previously been an all paperback bookstore that only inhabited a small...
Laurence Roth | Oct 20, 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