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
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