I Read Banned Books
September 9th 2014 Perhaps you need to be of a certain age to recognize City Lights Bookstore as the Holy Grail of the free speech movement. Well, at least one of them at any rate. Founded in 1953 by the poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti as a literary meeting place, today it offers three floors of books, with lots of chairs scattered around and signs inviting you to sit and read.
City Lights was one of the touchstones of
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