Update: It’s official! City Lights recognized the union! Just 3 weeks after their 70th anniversary, City Lights Bookstore is celebrating a turning point with workers forming a union. Workers announced the union on social media just yesterday January 25th, they said, “We are thrilled to announce the formation of the

Seeing the city through the colorful and chaotic lenses of famous dreamers like Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, and Allen Ginsburg.

A Big Change to This Year’s Voter Guide We’ve been doing voter guides for a really long time. I’m pretty sure we put our first one out in like 2010 or something. And I know that thousands of you rely on our voter guides to help you make decision. But

If you follow this site you probably believe in social justice and civil rights, and if that’s the case, you’re in luck. This Thursday City Lights Bookstore is hosting the release party for Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin, a book that might be one of the most important works on

Beautiful Women in Bookstores is exactly what it sounds like. It’s a celebration of reading, intelligence, independent bookstores, and of course, beautiful women. In a time when bookstores seem to be disappearing this is our effort to show how sexy books and reading really are. Each installment will have a different