Sentences with phrase «city lights bookstore»

The students knew from the beginning that we would be inviting a local North Beach poet from City Lights bookstore to join us to read her poetry too.

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In the summer of 1986, when the Greenwich Village bookstores were crowded with Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City — a novel whose method of demonstrating the bankruptcy of our culture, one critic said, is to chronicle its parties — and Bret Easton Ellis's Less than Zero and Don DeLillo's White Noise, all in shiny paperback covers, I remembered a New York Times review that called Richard Ford's The Sportswriter a novel about a good man.
«It's easy to forget, in the age of monolithic publishing houses and ubiquitous big - box retailers, that the bookstore - as - publisher tradition goes way back — as pointed out in a recent Salon article, Shakespeare & Company published Ulysses, and City Lights published Howl.»
Upon his return to California, Arneson sought out various forms of artistic nourishment, frequenting museums and bookstores, including City Lights, a center for Beat culture at the time.
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