City Lights

Name: City Lights
Brand: University of Nevada Press

University of Nevada Press

City LightsLawrence Ferlinghetti and the Biography of a Bookstore\nAuthor(s): Gioia Woods\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Nevada Press, United States\nImprint: University of Nevada Press\nISBN-13: 9781647792398, 978-1647792398\nSynopsis\nOn a San Francisco street corner in 1953, aspiring painter and poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti shook hands with sociology instructor and magazine editor Peter Martin. Their handshake sealed Ferlinghettis five-hundred-dollar investment in a small retail space above a North Beach flower shop that would become City Lights Bookstore and Press. Since the mid-twentieth century, the bookstore and its press have continued to shape the way literature is produced and consumed. As the first-ever all-paperback bookstore in the nation, sponsor of the Beat Movement and the San Francisco Renaissance, home of the Pocket Poets series, torchbearer for free speech movements, and promoter of global comparative literature and human rights, City Lights has continu.