With his brother Theodore (Ted), Elias (Eli) Wilentz owned the famous Eighth Street Bookshop in New York from 1947 to 1979. Named for its location in Greenwich Village, in 1967 the independent bookstore moved from the corner of Eighth and MacDougal to 17 West Eighth Street. Over the years the Eighth Street Bookshop not only employed such writers as LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), Jonathan Williams, Jane Schwartz, Andrei Codrescu, and Peter Orlovsky, but, more importantly, it served as an important social landmark in New York's literary and cultural scene. In 1976 the store was destroyed by fire and rebuilt, only to close for good three years later. Ted and Eli Wilentz also ran Corinth Books, which partnered with LeRoi Jones's Totem Press and Jonathan Williams's Jargon Books to publish such influential New York School, Beat and Black Mountain writers as Allen Ginsberg, Diane di Prima, Gary Snyder, Frank O'Hara, Philip Whalen, Ed Dorn, Jack Kerouac, and Charles Olson. In 1960 Elias Wilentz edited the anthology The Beat Scene.