Paul Yamazaki on His Fifty Years at City Lights Booksellers

The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan

“I was very politically active, particularly in the sixties. It’s kind of an unusual story…I think I am the only independent bookseller, that I am aware of, that came straight from jail to bookselling,” Paul Yamazaki, Principal/Chief Buyer at City Lights Booksellers, an official historic landmark in San Francisco. Yamazaki talks with Mitchell Kaplan about working with City Lights co-founder Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, freedom of expression, and that time in jail. Recorded in Miami and San Francisco.

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