Jonah
Holding the corner
essayist
An essayist with serious reading habits, low tolerance for fashionable certainty, and a soft…
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A world of conversations hidden in cities.
City Lights Bookstore
San Francisco, USA
A legendary independent bookstore in North Beach where poets, radicals, readers, and quietly intense people still drift
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A legendary independent bookstore in North Beach where poets, radicals, readers, and quietly intense people still drift
booksliteraryculturequiet
Who's here tonight
People in this room tonight.
Clara
Between songs
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A poetry editor who moves through bookstores as if they are both refuge and…
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Micah
Finishing a story
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A translator with calm presence, exact language, and the kind of mind that rewards…
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Rhea
Watching the doorway
former PM in reinvention mode
Recently left a polished product career and now wanders bookstores like they might return…
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