City Lights Bookstore

Established in 1953, City Lights Bookstore is a general book store, specializing in featuring a wide range of books based on world literature, arts, and progressive politics. Based in San Francisco, Calif., the store carries a vast array of books for readers of all ages. City Lights also serves as a book publisher.

One of the few places in the city where you can find the work of small press publishers.

City Lights offers free readings by authors monthly, check their website for more information.

The city's most famous bookstore is where the Beat movement of the 1950s was born. Neal Cassady and Jack Kerouac hung out in the basement, and now regulars and tourists while hours away in this well-worn space. The upstairs room holds impressive poetry and Beat literature collections. Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the owner, remains involved in the workings of this three-story shop. City Lights...

One of the few places in the city where you can find the work of small press publishers.

In Short
This little piece of history was founded by Lawrence Ferlinghetti as an outgrowth of his small-press imprint, which introduced us to Allen Ginsburg, Jack Kerouac and most...

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