Paul Yamazaki with Tosh Berman

Name: Paul Yamazaki with Tosh Berman
Start: 2024-09-19T19:00:00-07:00
Location: 8818 W Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, CA, United States, California 90069

Schedule

Thu Sep 19 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

8818 W Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, CA, United States, California 90069 | West Hollywood, CA

Paul Yamazaki, in conversation with Tosh Berman, discusses Reading the Room: A Bookseller’s Tale
Over twenty-four hours, Paul Yamazaki leads us through the stacks of storied City Lights Booksellers 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 like Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Sonny Mehta, and others; and his vision for the future of bookselling. Navigating building trust with readers and nurturing relationships across the literary industry, Yamazaki testifies to the value of generosity, sharing knowledge, and dialogue in a life devoted to books.