Reading the Room: A Bookseller's Tale - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Paul Yamazaki, Rick Simonson (Foreword by)Publish date:2024-05-08Pages:100
Language:EnglishPublisher:Ode BooksISBN-13:9781958846698ISBN-10:1958846694UPC:9781958846698Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, Literary Figures, EssaysSize:7.00 x 4.40 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SCZZY69SAC
Reading the Room: A Bookseller's Tale
Reading the Room is Paul Yamazaki's love letter to the work of bookselling and an engaged life of the mind. Over twenty-four hours, Paul Yamazaki leads us through the stacks of storied City Lights Booksellers in San Francisco; the care and prowess of his approach to book buying; his upbringing in a Japanese American family in Southern California and moving to San Francisco at the height of...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Ode BooksISBN-13:9781958846698ISBN-10:1958846694UPC:9781958846698Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, Literary Figures, EssaysSize:7.00 x 4.40 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SCZZY69SAC
Paul Yamazaki has been the principal buyer at City Lights Booksellers, the legendary San Francisco bookstore and publisher founded by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Peter Martin, for more than fifty years. A champion for national and global literature, writers, publishers, and independent bookstores, Yamazaki was the recipient of the National Book Foundation's 2023 Literarian Award for Outstanding...
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