Rebecca Solnit, author most recently of the upcoming essay collection Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (Haymarket Books, Sept. 4), offers a great indie bookseller shout-out in this week's New York Times Book Review "By the Book" q&a:
Whose opinion on books do you most trust?
Paul Yamazaki, the head book buyer at City Lights Books, who has worked there for the past 40 years. He knows everything about publishing and he’s never wrong about anything.