Business Type: Bookstore
261 Columbus Avenue
San Francisco, California 94133-4586
Phone: (415) 362-8193
Website: http://www.citylights.com/
Independent bookseller and publisher specializing in literary fiction. radical politics, social theory, third - world and ethnic studies, cutting - edge poetry, arts, and sciences.
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Beat Literature Galore
I thought I knew all about Beat Literature until allowing myself to lose all track of time in City Lights Books and re-educating myself by slowly wandering through its extensive catalogue of title and having a truly awesome time. This is the place where I would want to buy the new Burroughs/Jack Kerouac rediscovery but may not be able to wait until making the trip.
Bright Skylark Literary Productions offers such fine titles as: Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance (Facts on File); ELEMENTAL, The Power of Illuminated Love; The Bridge of Silver Wings 2009; Christmas When Music Almost Killed the World; and I Made My Boy Out of Poetry.
Don't miss City Lights on your visit to San Fran!
Plan to take in a reading or two, and don't forget to check out the City Lights-published poetry volumes!
Birthplace of cool
hey, this is the first truly cool bookstore. they published 'howl', what else do u need to know?
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet Jamie Ford Random House |
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Miles from Nowhere Nami Mun Riverhead |
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American Buffalo Steven Rinella Spiegel & Grau |
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The Piano Teacher Janice Y. K. Lee Viking |
Famous for a reason
I know City Lights is famous, but I love it simply because it's a great bookstore. Skinny aisles, stacks of wonderful reads, and situated smack in the heart of San Francisco, I can never skip a visit to this shop when I'm in the Bay Area.