I must admit that I’m particularly excited about the presentation at City Lights. As a kid growing up in Santa Cruz county, a mediocre student but a voracious reader, I would visit the store to feel like a Beat poet. I had read Jack Kerouac’s On The Road more than once and hoped to run into Lawrence Ferlinghetti or Allen Ginsberg.

As an undergraduate at Berkeley, I crossed the bay to visit the store. I remember buying a copy of Kerouac’s Dharma Blues, which I had already read, because it seemed cool to do so. I returned when I lived in Palo Alto for a year and in subsequent visits to Santa Cruz and the Bay Area. Since I moved to Davis I make it there frequently and have taken friends from Peru, Spain, and the east coast.

My colleague Arnie Bauer has great stories about City Lights in the early 1960s and I was glad to see that he mentioned it in my interview with him. While the neighborhood has changed radically in recent decades, the bookstore has remained topnotch.

I’m delighted and honored to present my book at City Lights this Monday, June 23 at 7 pm

If you want to know more about the book, check this link or visit my website to read an excerpt. 

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