I was sitting at the bar in a room with high wooden ceilings from the 1920s. There was an elk head on the wall and…
Earlier this year, City Lights Booksellers and Publishers released Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore‘s new memoir, The End of San Francisco, to much critical acclaim. Here is…
There was no one sitting in the “poet’s chair” in the poetry room at City Lights, so I did. The room was filling up for…
July Westhale talks with Major Jackson in the latest installment of hello, typewriter. JULY WESTHALE: Thank you so much for agreeing to be interviewed, Major!…
ruth weiss was in town for the 60th anniversary of City Lights Bookstore. She was also in town when City Lights began in 1953. In…
In the Museum The wife and I were planning to see Allen Ginsberg’s photos at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, “Beat Memories,” but we had an argument…
If you’ve been wanting to attend Litquake’s festival on the future of digital publishing, which is coming up on Saturday, June 29th, but you’ve been…
One of the original computer scientists, Jaron Lanier (who coined the phrase “virtual reality”) began his talk at City Lights by playing a mouth organ…