Book Freak 162: Yesterday and Today
A Moroccan's street vendor's unvarnished tale of survival in 1960s tangier
I came across Yesterday and Today, by Larbi Layachi, 30 years ago on the secondhand bookshelf of The Psychic Eye bookstore in Sherman Oaks, California (the San Fernando Valley’s answer to the late beloved Bodhi Tree bookstore in West Hollywood). I was attracted to the unvarnished paper stock of the cover, a defining characteristic of Black Sparrow Press…
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