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The Radical Power of a Bookstore: On Lawrence Ferlinghetti and City Lights – Literary Hub
The Radical Power of a Bookstore: On Lawrence Ferlinghetti and City Lights Gioia Woods Reflects on the Life of a Literary Icon, Via The University of Nevada Press By Gioia Woods, February 6, 2026 I discovered City Lights Bookstore in 1983. I was a high school sophomore in east Los Angeles on a campus so…
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Finding Healing at Paris’s Shakespeare and Company ‹ Literary Hub
Natasha Sizlo on Realizing She Needed to Write By Natasha Sizlo, August 19, 2022 Shakespeare and Company’s green-and-yellow facade and weather-beaten sidewalk book bins telegraphed old-world charm. Inside, thousands of books both new and used lined the shelves that stretched from floor to ceiling. More books were heaped on tables crammed into corners. I’d never seen so…
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Happy ending for Warwick’s bookstore as local investors step in to save the day – The San Diego Union-Tribune
With the store facing an uncertain future, investors bought the building that houses it By John Wilkens, May 2, 2021 5:55 AM PT Warwick’s calls itself the oldest bookstore in America continuously owned and operated by the same family. This is its 125th year in business, the last 70 of them in a building on Girard…
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Bookstores holding their own against digital onslaught – CBS News
Independent booksellers, which once seemed to be heading toward extinction, are making a modest comeback Source: Bookstores holding their own against digital onslaught – CBS News
