INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORES
City Lights Books in San Francisco is both an independent bookstore and an independent publisher, publishing nearly two hundred titles since launching in 1955, including poet Allen Ginsberg’s revolutionary work Howl. Customers from around the world now come to browse through the landmark store’s three floors and to see the place where beatniks like Ginsberg got their start. © James Kirkikis/age footstock
City Lights Books in San Francisco is both an independent bookstore and an independent publisher, publishing nearly two hundred titles since launching in 1955, including poet Allen Ginsberg’s revolutionary work Howl. Customers from around the world now come to browse through the landmark store’s three floors and to see the place where beatniks like Ginsberg got their start. © James Kirkikis/age footstock