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This is the first book from Ode Books,a line to celebrate book spaces & book people. Paul has been the principal buyer for City Lights for over 50 yrs. His insights & curious mind shines in this Q&A volume. City Lights has always been at the forefront of the avant-garde, world literature, LGBTQ+ & POCauthors, he honors his fellow booksellers & the book buying community by always featuring works that will expand your knowledge of the world.Sublime!

This pocket-size book takes just an hour or two to read, structurally spans a day and a night, but holds half a century‘s wisdom about bookselling. Paul Yamazaki has been the principal book buyer at Lawrence Ferlinghetti‘s iconic City Lights bookstore in San Francisco for 50 years. This brief but complex and consequential collection of interviews with a venerable bookseller of color who‘s experienced so much is a gift to all who love bookstores.