This event is in the past.It took place on May 6, 2026 at City Lights Booksellers & Publishers.
Literature Talk
Literature TalkChinatown, San Francisco
City Lights, the legendary Beat-era bookstore, hosts National Book Award winner Karen Tei Yamashita for her new novel about Japanese American incarceration during WWII. She'll discuss Questions 27 & 28 with Paul Yamazaki, the store's iconic buyer of fifty years: two literary lifers unpacking a story of loyalty, displacement, and family survival.
Literature TalkLiterature TalkChinatown, San Francisco
City Lights, the legendary Beat-era bookstore, hosts National Book Award winner Karen Tei Yamashita for her new novel about Japanese American incarceration during WWII. She'll discuss Questions 27 & 28 with Paul Yamazaki, the store's iconic buyer of fifty years: two literary lifers unpacking a story of loyalty, displacement, and family survival.