City Lights Is a Community More Than a Bookstore

City Lights Is a Community More Than a Bookstore
The Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West -
Tobias Wolff, Peter Richardson, Paul Yamazaki, Laura Cogan

How do literary communities arise? How are they sustained? What's the lasting role and influence of single institutions - Stanford's Stegner program, for example - on the region, the state, the nation? How about bookstores, salons, other ways and places in which writers gather, gain support of one sort or another, and do their work? What are the connections - personal, historical, and otherwise-between such places and programs?

Break: 12:30 - 1:30 pm PDT