Teresa Conboy - stories and sketches

03/23/2023

Sometimes, I forget to promote myself (that's not me pictured). Last summer - when my essay "How Musing on a Jazz Giant Can Help Unlock Our Stories" won in the Expository category of the Long Beach City College (LBCC) Jacaranda Essay Contest.

The English Department of Long Beach City College held its joint Jacaranda and Donald Drury Awards on Thursday at the Liberal Arts Campus P Building. For the Jacaranda Awards, each student had subm…

02/17/2023

Our founder Lawrence Ferlinghetti envisioned City Lights as an international project and published authors from all over the world.

Here he is in Paris, in front of our sister store Shakespeare and Company. At City Lights, Lawrence published works by a number of French writers, including Jacques Prévert, Charles Baudelaire, André Breton and René Daumal.

07/20/2022

People come in and out of our lives and some make lasting impressions, such as DJ, fellow Beat lover, DJ Nik Beat.