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Photo: City Lights Bookstore in the 1950's; sourced from foundsf.org

Alice Has Arrived!

October 11, 2016

Alice: Memoirs of a Barbary Coast Prostitute has officially been released! You can purchase it online here, or at any of the following retailers nationwide. If you don't see your local bookstore on the list, do encourage them to order a copy (or two!) direct from Heyday Books.

California:
Northtown Books, Arcata
Bookshop Benicia, Benicia
Moe's Books, Berkeley
Mrs. Dalloway's, Berkeley
Pandora Books, Berkeley
Book Passage, Corta Madera
UC Davis Bookstore, Davis
Skylight Books, Los Angeles
Gallery Bookshop and Bookwinkel's, Mendocino
Museum of the American Indian, Novato
Orinda Books, Orinda
Bell's Bookstore, Palo Alto
Vroman's Bookstore, Pasadena
Towne Center Books, Pleasanton
Point Reyes Books, Point Reyes Station
Adobe Books, San Francisco
Alley Cat Books, San Francisco
Books Inc., San Francisco
City Lights Books, San Francisco
Dog Eared Books, San Francisco
Green Apple Books, San Francisco
Russian Hill Bookstore, San Francisco
Thidwick Books, San Francisco
Chaucer's Bookstore, Santa Barbara
Bookshop Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Logos Books and Records, Santa Cruz
Diesel Books, Santa Monica
Copperfield's Books, Sebastopol
Book Loft, Solvang
Mountain Bookshop, Sonora
Stinson Beach Books, Stinson Beach
Mendocino Book Company, Ukiah
Community Memorial Museum, Yuba City

Colorado:
Between the Covers, Telluride
Boulder Bookstore, Boulder
Tattered Cover, Denver

Oregon:
Powell's Books, Portland

Washington:
Elliot Bay Book Company, Seattle
Odyssey Bookshop, Port Angeles

Nationwide:
Barnes and Noble

...with many more to be announced!

 

 

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Notes on the Underworld

Here you will find commentary from Ivy Anderson and Devon Angus touching upon all aspects of Alice Smith's story, from sex and gender at the turn of the century, to the history of journalism and today's sex worker rights movement. 

You will also find a selection of letters written in response to Alice Smith's story in 1913, which up until now have gone unpublished.

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