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Ferlinghetti: Not All Beat Poets Are Beat

Regina Weinreich | Posted 04.12.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, Jack Kerouac, Chris Felver, City Lights Books, Dennis Hopper, Allen Ginsberg, James Franco, Anne Waldman, Gary Snyder, Entertainment News
Regina Weinreich

Back in the day, the poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti was all the rage. Paperbacks of A Coney Island of the Mind could be seen stuffed in jean pockets on college campuses. Now 93, he is the subject of a valuable biopic by photographer and filmmaker Chris Felver

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Poverty: The Most Common Crime?

Steve Heilig | Posted 03.26.2012 | Books
Read More: City Lights Books, Poverty, Lisa Gray-Garcia, Income Inequality, Ineqaulity, Occupy Movement, Books News
Steve Heilig

Contrary to some enduring American mythologies, Gray-Garcia shows that it is possible to be smart, work hard, avoid the perils of addiction, violence, HIV and so many other afflictions that beset the poor, and still get stuck in a lifetime of poverty.

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PHOTOS: The World's Most Inspiring Bookstores

salon.com | Megan Cytron, Trazzler | Posted 07.16.2011 | Books
Read More: Montague Bookmill, John King Books, Eslite, Shakespeare and Co. Bookstore, El Ateneo Grand Splendid, Azbakia Book Market, Jimbocho Book Town, Lello Bookshop, City Lights Books, Inspiring Bookstores, Bookstores, Argosy Books, Powell's Books, Daunt Books, Books News

One of London's most beautiful shops of any kind, Daunt Books would be worth a visit just to soak up the streaming natural light emanating from the sk...

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Subterranean San Francisco

Mark Coggins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Domenic Stansberry, Noir, City of Dragons, Chinatown, San Francisco, Kelli Stanley, City Lights Books, Li Po, Dante's Last Stand, Hardboiled, Peter Maravelis, Books, Books News
Mark Coggins

If you followed the instructions on the appointed evening, you would have found yourself in the catacombs among a capacity crowd of eighty or so hardboiled writing fans.

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