City Lights Bookstore

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City Lights Bookstore is a historic independent bookstore and literary landmark in San Francisco renowned for its Beat Generation associations and progressive publishing.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf independent bookstore
literary landmark
small business
tourist attraction
associatedWith Beat Generation
San Francisco Renaissance
counterculture
progressive politics
city San Francisco
country United States of America
surface form: United States
foundedAs paperback-only bookstore
foundedBy Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Peter D. Martin
hasActivity author events
book publishing
book readings
book retail
hasMotto A Literary Meetingplace Since 1953
hasOwner Lawrence Ferlinghetti
hasRole cultural center
hasSection poetry room
hasType three-story bookstore
hasWebsite https://www.citylights.com/
inception 1953
knownFor Beat literature
independent press
literary readings
progressive publishing
languageOfWorkOrName English
locatedIn California, United States
surface form: California

San Francisco
United States of America
surface form: United States
near Columbus Avenue and Broadway intersection
neighborhood North Beach
notableAuthorPublished Allen Ginsberg
Gregory Corso
Jack Kerouac
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
notablePublication Howl
surface form: Howl and Other Poems
originalFunction paperback bookstore
publisher
publishingImprint City Lights Publishers
recognizedAs San Francisco Designated Landmark
specializesIn poetry
progressive literature
radical politics
world literature
streetAddress 261 Columbus Avenue

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North Beach hasCulturalSite City Lights Bookstore
Vesuvio Cafe locatedNear City Lights Bookstore
Gregory Corso associatedWith City Lights Bookstore
this entity surface form: City Lights Books
San Francisco Renaissance hasCenter City Lights Bookstore
Lawrence Ferlinghetti coFounderOf City Lights Bookstore
this entity surface form: City Lights Booksellers & Publishers
Lawrence Ferlinghetti coFounderOf City Lights Bookstore
Lawrence Ferlinghetti employer City Lights Bookstore
this entity surface form: City Lights Booksellers & Publishers
Columbus Avenue hasLandmark City Lights Bookstore
subject surface form: Columbus Avenue (San Francisco)
City Lights Publishers coLocatedWith City Lights Bookstore
Columbus Avenue and Broadway intersection near City Lights Bookstore
this entity surface form: City Lights Booksellers & Publishers
Jack Kerouac Alley adjacentTo City Lights Bookstore
"Howl" obscenity trial relatedOrganization City Lights Bookstore
subject surface form: Howl obscenity trial
this entity surface form: City Lights Books
Pictures of the Gone World associatedWith City Lights Bookstore
Beat literature hasNotablePublisher City Lights Bookstore
this entity surface form: City Lights Books
Peter D. Martin coFounded City Lights Bookstore
A Far Rockaway of the Heart hasAuthorAssociation City Lights Bookstore
this entity surface form: City Lights Books
Starting from San Francisco associatedWith City Lights Bookstore
Her publisher City Lights Bookstore
this entity surface form: City Lights Books
Her coFounderOfPublisher City Lights Bookstore
this entity surface form: City Lights Books
Nunzio Corso associatedWith City Lights Bookstore
subject surface form: Gregory Corso
this entity surface form: City Lights Books
Madeline Gleason associatedWith City Lights Bookstore
North Beach, San Francisco contains City Lights Bookstore