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Christina Hanhardt discussing her new book, Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood...
Since the 1970s, a key goal of lesbian and gay activists has been protection against street violence, especially in gay neighborhoods. During the same time, policymakers and private developers declared...
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Nick Turse and Oscar Villalon Discussing the Vietnam War
On January 27th, 2014, Nick Turse and Oscar Villalon discussed Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam (Picador Books) at City Lights Bookstore! Americans have long been taught that...
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Kevin Young
We were extremely proud to have poet Kevin Young come to City Lights and read from his new collection of poetry, Book of Hours. Book of Hours from Alfred A. Knopf: Possibly his most intimate book of...
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Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics 40th Anniversary Party
We were proud to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at City Lights. It was fantastic night of readings from JKS faculty and guests who have taught in their...
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Josh Weil
Josh Weil reads from his new novel The Great Glass Sea (Grove Press) and discusses the book with Tom Barbash From celebrated storyteller Josh Weil comes an epic tragedy of brotherly love, a sui...
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Best Kept Secrets: The Fiction of Lucia Berlin
http://citylightspodcast.com/episodes/LuciaBerlin_90915.mp3 | Open Player in New Window Join City Lights and the Book Club of California in an event that is described by editor Stephen Emerson as a...
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Joseph Matthews
citylightspodcast.com/episodes/JosephMatthews_91515.mp3 | Open Player in New Window In this episode of LIVE! from City Lights, author Joseph Matthews reads from his new novel Everyone Has Their...
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David Stephen Calonne on Charles Bukowski
citylightspodcast.com/episodes/DavidStephenCalonneBukowski_102915.mp3 | Open Player in New Window Editor David Stephen Calonne joins City Lights to celebrate the release of The Bell Tolls for No One, a...
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Reverend Billy
http://www.citylightspodcast.com/episodes/ReverendBilly_042016.mp3 | Open Player in New Window Reverend Billy Talen makes a visit to City Lights once again to speak about his new book titled The Earth...
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Jewelle Gomez
http://www.citylightspodcast.com/episodes/JewelleGomez_041316.mp3 | Open Player in New Window Award-winning author Jewelle Gomez returns to City Lights in honor of the Expanded 25th Anniversary Edition...
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Cynthia Carr in conversation with Amy Scholder on The Life and Times of David...
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers in conjunction with the San Francisco Art Institute and Bloomsbury Books present an evening with Cynthia Carr and Amy Scholder celebrating the release of...
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The Paris Review visits Tosca Cafe
City Lights Booksellers in conjunction with Tosca Cafe, The Paris Review, and Picador Books are pleased to celebrate the release of Object Lessons: The Paris Review Presents the Art of the Short Story...
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Ali Liebegott’s Book Party at City Lights!
http://www.citylightspodcast.com/episodes/SisterSpitco.mp3 | Open Player in New Window celebrating the release of Cha-Ching! and The Beautifully Worthless the latest in the City Lights/Sister Spit...
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John Freeman in discussion with Robin Sloan
http://www.citylightspodcast.com/episodes/JohnFreemanRobinSloan120413.mp3 | Open Player in New Window celebrating the release of How to Read a Novelist by John Freeman from Farrar, Strauss, Giroux If...
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The End of Love, by Marcos Giralt Torrente read by Katherine Silver and Scott...
http://www.citylightspodcast.com/episodes/MarcosGiraltTorrente102313.mp3 | Open Player in New Window Katherine Silver and Scott Esposito read and discuss the work of Marcos Giralt Torrente on the...
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Homero Aridjis
Accompanied by his translator (and daughter) Chloe Aridjis, Mexican poet and activist Homero Aridjis makes another appearance at City Lights, this time to read from and answer questions on his latest...
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Joyce Carol Oates 2
National Book Award-winning and bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates was at City Lights discussng her latest novel, the critically acclaimed The Man Without a Shadow. In this recording, Joyce Carol...
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Leonard Pitt
Leonard Pitt comes to City Lights to celebrate the release of his latest book, My Brain on Fire: Paris and Other Obsessions, published by Soft Skull Press. This is Leonard Pitt’s story of growing up...
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Greg Jackson
Greg Jackson was at City Lights to celebrating the release of Prodigals: Stories, published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, with a reading and a discussion. “People are bullets, fired,” the narrator...
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Jack Hirschman & Mahnaz Badihian
City Lights hosts Jack Hirschman and Mahnaz Badihian for a bilingual reading of the love poems of Rumi, in Farsi and in English. Jack Hirschman is the former poet Laureate of San Francisco, a...
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Jonathan Lee
Jonathan Lee comes to City Lights to celebrate the release of his novel, High Dive. He is joined by author Colin Winnette in this event co-sponsored by Electric Literature. In September 1984, a bomb...
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Elizabeth Percer
City Lights welcomed Elizabeth Percer to celebrate the release of her novel, All Stories Are Love Stories, published by HarperCollins. All Stories Are Love Stories follows a group of survivors thrown...
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Wes “Scoop” Nisker
Wes “Scoop” Nisker came to City Lights to celebrate the release of his latest book, You Are Not Your Fault And Other Revelations, published by Soft Skull Press. In You Are Not Your Fault and Other...
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Shobha Rao
Shobha Rao comes to City Lights to celebrate the release of her short story collection, An Unrestored Woman, published by Flatiron Books. The twelve paired stories in Shobha Rao’s An Unrestored Woman...
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Tony Serra 2
City Lights hosts Tony Serra as he celebrates the release of his debut novel, The Scaffold: A Treason Death Penalty Trial, published by Grizzly Peak Press. Beginning with an outline as a young lawyer...
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Justin Chin Tribute
City Lights Booksellers celebrates the release of Justin Chin: Selected Works hosted by Jennifer Joseph with readings and remembrances by Kevin Killian, Rabih Alameddine, Henry Machtay, Larry-Bob...
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Carey Perloff and Joshua Mohr
Co-presented by Litquake, and with a introduction from City Light’s publisher and executive director Elaine Katzenberger, City Lights welcomes Carey Perloff, the Artistic Director of A.C.T. to discuss...
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Rachel Aspden
City Lights welcomes Rachel Aspden! She discusses her new book, Generation Revolution: On the Front Line Between Tradition and Change in the Middle East, from Other Press. In 2011 during the Arab...
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Logic Magazine First Issue Release Party
City Lights welcomes Logic‘s founding editors, Ben Tarnoff, Moira Weigel, Jim Fingal, Christa Hartsock and Logic contributors Tim Hwang, Miriam Posner, and Conrad Amenta, in telling the story of...
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Deepak Unnikrishnan
City Lights welcomes Deepak Unnikrishnan in conversation with Shanthi Sekaran in celebrating his new award winning novel, Temporary People from Restless Books. In the United Arab Emirates, foreign...
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Oakland Noir
City Lights celebrates a new crime anthology from Akashic Books, Oakland Noir, with Nick Petrulakis, Jamie DeWolf, Eddie Muller & Jerry Thompson. California’s noir quotient continues to rise with...
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Damon Krukowski
City Lights welcomes Damon Krukowski to discuss his new book, The New Analog: Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital World, from The New Press. Joining him is City Lights Publisher/Executive Director,...
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James Nolan
City Lights welcomes James Nolan to celebrate the release of his new book, Flight Risk: Memoirs of a New Orleans Bad Boy, from University Press of Mississippi. Flight Risk takes off as a page-turning...
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The Novel of the Tupinamba Indian by E.F. Granell
City Lights celebrates the publication of The Novel of the Tupinamba Indian (published by City Lights) with translator David Coulter, editor Garrett Caples, and actor Robert Ernst. Written by Galician...
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Matthew Dickman and Emily Strelow
Matthew Dickman celebrates the release of the poetry collection Wonderland from W.W. Norton and Emily Strelow celebrates the release of her debut novel The Wild Birds from Rare Bird Lit. Matthew...
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