City Lights Booksellers & Publishers

“One of the literal best places on earth. Go sit in the poetry chair right now!”

“San Francisco, CA. One of the pieces of North Beach that never changes. Home of the Beats. I remember my dad pointing out Lawrence Ferlinghetti to me here, and at Caffe Trieste, when I was a kid. UGH I love bookstores.”

“of course! a classic! city lights is one of those old hallowed bookstores that just has a certain kind of aura you feel excited... maybe a little awed... to be in, like getting to reach back in time to a city's venerated past (it feels a little like Paris's Shakespeare & Company in that way, City Lights' beat poets and pre-gentrification SF equivalent to Paris's Hemingway and Fitzgerald). sometimes it just feels nice to be a writer hanging out where other writers used to hang out”

“Always climb the creaky stairs to visit this cozy room with poetry, rocking chairs, and a perfect North Beach alley view.”