City Lights, 248 pages, paperback, $16.95 Let me start by saying that I’ve never read any of Charles Bukowski’s work before picking up this book. [...]

City Lights Books, 300 pages, paperback, $16.77 Mushrooms, Myth & Mithras: The Drug Cult That Civilized Europe is a heavy book for heavy thinkers. The [...]

City Lights, 232 pages, paperback, $15.95 I remember hearing Ry Cooder’s 2005 album Chavez Ravine after my old man burned me a copy of it [...]

City Lights, 269 pages, paperback, $15.95 In the vein of his prior two Beat Generation guidebooks — The Beat Generation in New York and The Beat [...]

The bat thudded against the window. Peter felt it — broken glass in his gut — though the window didn’t break. No alarm went off. [...]

City Lights Publishers, 172 pages, trade paperback, $15.95 Fiction writer, social critic, and founding editor of indie literary magazine Broken Pencil Hal Niedzviecki has done [...]

In March of 2007, I pulled a copy of Diane di Prima’s prose and poetry collection Dinners and Nightmares off my bookshelf. At the time, [...]

Originally published in Verbicide #18 City Lights Books, 258 pages, trade paperback, $15.95 If you’re anything like me, you’ve found yourself watching reality television, mouth [...]

Originally published in Verbicide issue #10 City Lights, 240 pages, paperback, $12.57 Literary geographer Bill Morgan wants to take you on tour — well, actually, nine [...]