A legendary San Francisco bookstore may be forced to close its doors permanently as California’s sweeping coronavirus response takes its toll on small businesses.
Founded in 1953 by two friends, college professor Peter D. Martin and the poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, City Lights became a cultural institution for San Francisco's bohemians and literati. It was the nation's first bookstore to exclusively sell paperbacks, many of which skewed toward progressive politics and modern literature.
"Howl & Other Poems," which became one of the most influential literary works ever published, is associated with such equally subversive titles as Jack Kerouac's"On the Road" and William S. Burroughs'"Naked Lunch." Not coincidentally, City Lights is near Jack Kerouac Alley in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood.
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