Review: City Lights Bookstore
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The Beat writers turned City Lights into their home base in San Francisco, and the North Beach bookstore, established in 1953 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, continues to be a mecca for writers who dream of leaving behind something more substantial than blog entries. City Lights is a reminder of what an independent bookstore provides that Amazon cannot: a curated selection of unexpected titles that reflect the literary tastes of the store's owners and managers. Go, and be prepared to leave with a book you'd never heard of before walking in.
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