Beat Book Shop

05/06/2026

Kurt Cobain once said Iggy Pop was the only rock star he truly admired. 🔥👇

04/21/2026

Lew and Allen Ginsburg at City Lights in San Francisco way back when!

10/16/2025

All signed all for sale

09/08/2025

https://www.nga.gov/artworks/154180-harry-smith-ethnomusicologist-cats-cradle-string-game-expert-displaying-cats-whiskers-design-hed

Harry Smith, ethnomusicologist & Cat's Cradle string game expert, displaying "cat's whiskers" design. He'd been weakening malnourished in Franciscan shelter on N.Y. Bowery, came here to stay weeks in my apartment, we went together by plane to Naropa Institute Boulder Colorado where he was resident a...

06/29/2025

Clever🥴

04/04/2025

"Maybe that’s what life is…a wink of the eye and winking stars." ― Jack Kerouac, Selected Letters 1940-1956
📷: Burt Goldblatt

12/11/2024

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/anne-marie-maxwell-beat-obituary-19913362.php

Anne Marie Maxwell was a key figure in the Beat scene that led to the Trips Festival and launched the psychedelic ’60s in San Francisco. She died Oct. 21 at 92.

08/20/2024

Part of my project of going to the Gas Station from On the Road and taking photos of it every year.

04/27/2024

Miranda Corso, Gregory’s Daughter today at beat book shop!

04/05/2024