San Francisco Landmark City Lights Bookstore Raises $400k, Will Stay In Business

The long-lasting Metropolis Lights bookstore has apparently averted a shutdown, a minimum of for now, elevating greater than $400ok out of a aim of $300ok in a GoFundMe.com campaign that noticed greater than 8,000 folks donate.

Elaine Katzenberger, the writer and CEO of Metropolis Lights Booksellers & Publishers, claimed that the pandemic shutdown of the enterprise since March 16 brought on its money reserves to “shortly dwindle.” The workers has been receiving full pay and healthcare since that date, however the retailer had no earnings, and thus was dealing with smash.

“I need to reassure you that we’re doing the whole lot in our energy to maintain Metropolis Lights intact, and to place this beloved establishment to play a significant function in what’s for now a really unsure future,” mentioned the message from Katzenberger on GoFundMe. “We all know how a lot we’re all going to want this place once more, this dwelling away from dwelling the place we are able to discover one another as soon as extra, in individual and in books.

Metropolis Lights was based in 1953 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, one of many members of the Beat motion. Positioned in San Francisco’s North Seaside, the shop was the writer of Allen Ginsberg’s well-known poem Howl.

The shop has remained a literary and neighborhood hub, internet hosting readings, ebook signings and different occasions.

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