City Lights Bookstore | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-05

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Lights_Bookstore


00:01:00 1 History
00:01:09 1.1 Founding and early years
00:03:44 1.2 1970s and 1980s
00:05:02 1.3 2000s
00:07:01 1.4 Present
00:07:34 2 Publishing
00:10:17 3 iHowl/i
00:13:11 4 See also
00:13:24 5 Notes and references
00:13:33 6 External links



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City Lights is an independent bookstore-publisher combination in San Francisco, California, that specializes in world literature, the arts, and progressive politics. It also houses the nonprofit City Lights Foundation, which publishes selected titles related to San Francisco culture. It was founded in 1953 by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Peter D. Martin (who left two years later). Both the store and the publishers became widely known following the obscenity trial of Ferlinghetti for publishing Allen Ginsberg's influential collection Howl and Other Poems (City Lights, 1956). Nancy Peters started working there in 1971 and retired as executive director in 2007. In 2001, City Lights was made an official historic landmark. City Lights is located at 261 Columbus Avenue in Chinatown, near the border of North Beach.