Reading the Room: A Bookseller's TaleReading the Room is Paul Yamazaki's love letter to the work of bookselling and an engaged life of the mind. 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

with whom she fought incessantly

When Russell dies exactly one month later

What if the real key to a more fulfilling career was not to scale up but to work for yourself and become a successful and sustainable company of one

a critic will read it the last rites – yet the form remains more popular than ever with readers

heavier housework

the science devoted to understanding human nature

A powerful

Montell delves into cognitive biases that run rampant in our brains

and board from which a book is made tell as rich a story as the words on its pages

compassion

Since its initial publication in 1965

Were its principles of peaceful coexistence a rhetorical flourish or a substantive policy initiative