City Lights in San Francisco has been an independent bookseller and publisher since the 1950s, notably publishing Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and Other Poems in 1956. They’ve gone on to publish… Read more »

In the early 1950s, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, a former Navy officer who had become a pacifist and anarchist after witnessing the bombing of Nagasaki, had recently moved to San Francisco to… Read more »