Alley Cat Owner Wants Out, Trio Steps In To Launch Bookshop "Medicine For Nightmares"

San Francisco CA

04 November, 2021

7:08 PM

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By Annika Hom, Mission Local November 4, 2021 When Josiah Luis Alderete learned the nearly decade-old bilingual bookshop on 24th Street would shut down, he thought, "oh shit." He immediately jumped to imaginary conclusions, cringing at the idea of the bookstore turning into a pilates studio. Luckily, his friend Kate K. Razo owned the soon-to-be closed bookstore on 3036 24th St., Alley Cat Bookstore & Gallery. She, too, wanted its successor to sell books, and figured Alderete, a Chicano poet and bookseller at the historic City Lights, may know a literary local up to the task. Well, he was. And he knew exactly who to call, too. To read the full article, click here. Mission Local covers San Francisco from the vantage point of the Mission, a neighborhood with all of the promise and problems of a major city. You can support Mission Local here.