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| Paul Yamazaki | |
In " 'A legend in the literary world' keeps S.F.'s City Lights shining," the San Francisco Chronicle offers a portrait of beloved bookseller Paul Yamazaki, who last November was given the National Book Foundation's Literarian Award for lifetime achievement. "I took it as recognition for what we've accomplished at City Lights," he told the Chronicle. "I think as a culture we have a hard time recognizing collective achievement, so we tend to focus on individuals instead of group history."
The article tells the story of Yamazaki, who has been the lead buyer for City Lights more more than 50 years. It also has great news: his Reading the Room: A Bookseller's Tale, a "love letter to the work of bookselling and an engaged life of the mind," will be published April 15 by Ode Books, a partnership of the Seminary Co-op Bookstores, Chicago, Ill., and Matthew Engelke, professor of religion and director of the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life at Columbia University.