SAN FRANCISCO — For years had this desire to buy Marshall McLuhan’s “The Medium is the Massage” off the shelf. I don’t know why, but it strikes me as a more fun way to find it than ordering it. I was hoping I would be able to walk into City Lights and pull that off, but alas they didn’t have one. They did have a McLuhan’s “Understanding Media” which I picked up. I also picked up a copy of Howl by Allen Ginsberg and a themed bumper sticker.
Oddly enough, I’m not a big fan of the Beats. Howl, which was first published by City Lights in 1955-56, is amazing poetry though.
The City Lights staff was rather cheerful too.
