Paul Yamazki and Stephen Sparks on Bookselling

Author Event
* Saturday, May 18, 4:00 pm

Paul Yamazaki, who has been the principal buyer at City Lights Bookstore for over fifty years, joins Stephen Sparks for a conversation about Reading the Room: A Bookseller’s Tale (Ode Books).

“A wry, stirring, profoundly uplifting ode to bookselling––complete with riffs on capitalism, San Francisco, jazz, even the meaning of life––from one of the underappreciated literary titans of our time.” — Hua Hsu, author of Stay True: A Memoir

“Paul Yamazaki is one of the greatest and most influential readers in the world. [This volume] reminds us that reading is an act of imagination, defiance, optimism and love. Paul brings the whole of his being to the world of books. May we all learn to do the same.” — Katie Kitamura, author of Intimacies and A Separation