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Yamazaki, Paul,

Reading the room : a bookseller's tale / Paul Yamazaki. - viii, 99 pages : illustration ; 18 cm

Preface -- Foreword / by Rick Simonson -- part 1: A walk through the bookstore -- Part II: A book event Q&A -- Part III: A post-event bender -- Part IV: Breakfast.

"Reading the Room is Paul Yamazaki's love letter to the work of bookselling and an engaged life of the mind. Over twenty-four hours, Yamazaki leads us through the stacks of storied City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco, the care and prowess of his approach to book buying, his upbringing in a Japanese American family in Southern California and moving to San Francisco at the height of revolutionary foment, working with legendary figures in the book publishing industry, and his vision for the future of bookselling. Yamazaki testifies to the value of generosity, sharing knowledge, and dialogue in a life devoted to books." -- Back cover

ISBN: 9781958846698 1958846694

Subjects--Personal Names:
Yamazaki, Paul.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Booksellers and bookselling--California--San Francisco--Anecdotes.
Japanese Americans--Biography.
Bookstores--California--San Francisco.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Anecdotes.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.