Originally posted on City Lights
City
Lights: If you’ve been to City Lights before, what’s your memory of the
visit?If you haven’t been here before, what are you expecting?
Chris
Robé: I have been there many times. I think of the intimate environment
with books nestled in wood and stacks and stacks of unheard-of
‘zines
populating the magazine racks.
CL: What’s the first book you read and what are you reading right now?
CR:
I don’t recall–probably something with Snoopy. I generally read a
fiction
and non-fiction book simultaneously. So I am reading both
American War by Omar El Akkad and The United States of Jihad by Peter
Bergen.
CL: Which 3 books would you never part with?
CR: Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; Roberto Bolaño, 2666; and Kafka, The Complete Stories.
CL: If your book had a soundtrack, what would it be?
CR: Lots of Sonic Youth and Velvet Underground.
CL: If you opened a bookstore tomorrow, where would it be located, what
would it be called, and what would your bestseller be?
CR:
I would like to establish one on a comet passing by the earth so
it
could have far reach throughout the solar system. I would call it The
Ambassador as it will serve as a central place to liaison with alien
life forms. The best-selling books would be tied: Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Yoss’s A Planet for Rent.
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