San Francisco has a rich literary history. My favorite bookstore in San Francisco is City Lights — in North Beach. City Lights invites people (via signs in the store) to “sit down and read a book.”
I like the bookstore’s Poetry Room (which contains an English dictionary, a very old edition of Webster’s I think — below).
City Lights was founded by the Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who turned 99 this year.
I’ve been to City Lights many times. It is one of my favorite places in San Francisco. I don’t like to take good things for granted — not good karma. So I took these photos yesterday — I thought I needed to.
Think big! Create! Persevere!
