Saloni Saxena, Sahana Raghuraman, and Tanishka Jha

The morning fog mirrored my disposition as the weight of what I’d done dampened my thoughts. One slip-up had caused a plethora of gossip, rumors, and worst of all, endless tormenting from him. All I had sought out was a little fun, one night of reckless teenage fever. Jokes, jokes, that’s what my John Hughes brain liked to cinematically picture, but it really was just a measly text message that changed the trajectory of my life and my middle school social status. I gazed at my reflection in...

The famed City Lights Bookstore is nestled on a busy street in San Francisco with literary-lovers and tourists floating in and out of the grand doors like clouds. It was founded in 1953 by the poets Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Peter D. Martin, and is one of the only fully independent bookstores in the states. One of the main attractions of the bookstore resides in the books there themselves. The selection of titles offered at City Lights pays tribute to the anti-authoritarian founders that...