Calendar of Events
Tuesday, January 31, 2023, 6:00 pm PST
Thomas Crow in conversation with Carrie Lambert-Beatty
City Lights and Princeton University Press celebrate the publication of The Artist in the Counterculture: Bruce Conner to Mike Kelley and Other Tales from the Edge - By Thomas Crow - Published by Princeton University Press
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Wednesday, February 1, 2023, 6:00 pm PST
Miss Major (POSTPONED)
ATTENTION: This event has been postponed due to publication delays. We will be announcing a new date as soon as we are able. City Lights and Verso Books celebrating the publication of Miss Major Speaks: The Life and Legacy of a Black Trans Revolutionary - by Miss Major With Toshio Meronek - published by Verso Books
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Wednesday, February 1, 2023, 6:00 pm PST
Sam Woolley in conversation with Jeff Horwitz
City Lights in conjunction with Yale University Press celebrate the publication of Manufacturing Consensus: Understanding Propaganda in the Era of Automation and Anonymity - By Sam Woolley - published by Yale University Press
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Thursday, February 2, 2023, 12:00 pm PST
adrienne maree brown in conversation with dream hampton
adrienne maree brown reading from her new novel Maroons: A Grievers Novel - Published by AK Press
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Tuesday, February 7, 2023, 6:00 pm PST
Peter Turchi in conversation with Austin Kleon
Peter Turchi in conversation with Austin Kleon discussing (Don't) Stop Me if You've Heard This Before (and Other Essays on Writing Fiction) - by Peter Turchi - published by Trinity University Press
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Wednesday, February 8, 2023, 12:00 pm PST
Isabel Waidner in conversation with Maxe Crandall
City Lights in conjunction with Graywolf Press celebrate the publication of Sterling Karat Gold - By Isabel Waidner - Published by Graywolf Press
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Wednesday, February 8, 2023, 6:00 pm PST
Anastasia C. Curwood discussing the life and work of Shirley Chisholm
City Lights celebrates the publication of Shirley Chisholm: Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics - by Anastasia C. Curwood - published by University of North Carolina Press
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Thursday, February 16, 2023, 6:00 pm PST
Ayize Jama-Everett in conversation with Tân Khánh Cao
City Lights in conjunction with Medicine for Nightmares and Small Beer Press celebrate the publication of Heroes of an Unknown World : a novel - by Ayize Jama-Everett - published by Small Beer Press
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Thursday, February 23, 2023, 6:00 pm PST
Dennis McKenna & Friends
City Lights in conjunction with Synergetic Press celebrate the publication of Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss: My Life with Terence McKenna - by Dennis McKenna - published by Synergetic Press with Mariavittoria Mangini, PhD, Bruce Damer, PhD, and Luis Eduardo Luna. Moderated by Jasmine Virdi,
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Tuesday, February 28, 2023, 6:00 pm PST
Margaret Randall in conversation with Garrett Caples
City Lights, Casa Urraca Press, and Wings Press celebrate the publication of Lupe’s Dream and other stories (published by Wings Press) and Vertigo of Risk: poems (published by Casa Urraca Press)
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Thursday, March 2, 2023, 6:30 pm PST
John Sayles
City Lights and Melville House celebrate the publication of Jamie MacGillivray: The Renegade's Journey (a novel) by John Sayles - Published by Melville House - This event will be both broadcast online and take place inside City Lights Bookstore located at 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco. Those of you who have registered for a virtual event will still be able to experience it on zoom. Although facial covering is not mandatory for this event, we highly recommend it. Seating is on a first come, first serve basis. No registration required for the in-store event, Registration is however required to view the virtual portion of this program.
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Saturday, March 4, 2023, 11:00 am PST
Humanizing Education: Equity, Belonging & Justice for Immigrant and Refugee Students in U.S. Schools
City Lights, in conjunction with the University of San Francisco School of Education and Refugee and Immigrant Transitions, presents a half-day virtual symposium with two plenary and three break-out group discussions to explore how educators, school and district leaders, social service providers, and community partners can work together to better support immigrant and refugee students. With Lisa Auslander, Monisha Bajaj, Lesley Bartlett, Emily Francis, Gabriela Martínez, Jo Napolitano, Jane Pak, Kajal Shahali, Sailaja Suresh, and Daniel Walsh. Nadia Elbgal, the 2022 Oakland Youth Poet Laureate, will deliver an opening poem to begin the proceedings. Admission to all sessions is free. Registration is required. Visit the event listing for registration info.
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Wednesday, March 8, 2023, 6:00 pm PST
Lakiesha Carr in conversation with Maurice Carlos Ruffin
City Lights celebrates the publication of An Autobiography of Skin (A Novel) - by Lakiesha Carr - Published by Pantheon Books
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Thursday, March 9, 2023, 8:00 pm PST
Priya Guns
City Lights celebrates the publication of Your Driver Is Waiting - By Priya Guns - Published by Doubleday
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Monday, March 13, 2023, 6:00 pm PST
Maggie Millner
Maggie Millner is joined in conversation by Megan Fernandes, Sam Sax and Oscar Villalon
Maggie Millner reads from her debut book "Couplets" - Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
This event is both live in-store and virtual. It is free to the public. To watch online you will need to register. While attending in-store, seating is available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Masks are optional, but highly recommended.
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Wednesday, March 15, 2023, 6:00 pm PST
Kathy E. Ferguson discussing “Letterpress Revolution”
City Lights and Duke University Press present
Kathy E. Ferguson discussing "Letterpress Revolution: The Politics of Anarchist Print Culture" Published by Duke University Press
Joined by special guest Jules Remedios Faye
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Thursday, March 16, 2023, 6:00 pm PST
Art, Community and Direct Action: An evening with The Anarchist Review of Books
Join us to celebrate the publication of The Anarchist Review of Books issue #5 with with Cara Hoffman, Payton Alexandre, and Ben Durham
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Tuesday, March 21, 2023, 6:00 pm PST
Robert Lopez in conversation with Sarah Rose Etter
Robert Lopez celebrates the publication of "Dispatches From Puerto Nowhere: An American Story of Assimilation and Erasure" published by Two Dollar Radio
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Thursday, March 23, 2023, 6:00 pm PST
Charif Shanahan in conversation with Solmaz Sharif
Charif Shanahan celebrates the publication of Trace Evidence: poems published by Tin House Books
This event is both live in-store and virtual. It is free to the public. To watch online you will need to register. While attending in-store, seating is available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Masks are optional, but highly recommended.Event
Tuesday, March 28, 2023, 12:00 pm PST
Belén Gopegui with Mark Schafer
City Lights celebrates the publication of Stay This Day and Night with Me by Belén Gopegui (Translator: Mark Schafer) Published by City Lights Books
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Thursday, March 30, 2023, 6:00 pm PST
Yxta Maya Murray in conversation with Jocelyn Saidenberg
City Lights celebrates the publication of "God Went Like That: a novel" by Yxta Maya Murray - published by Northwestern University Press/Curbstone Books
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Tuesday, April 4, 2023, 6:00 pm PST
Tim Z. Hernandez
Tim Z. Hernandez reads from his new collection "Some of the Light: New and Selected Poems" Published by Beacon Press/Raised Voices Series
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Thursday, April 6, 2023, 6:00 pm PST
Joan Baez in conversation with Paul Liberatore
City Lights and Godine celebrate the publication of Am I Pretty When I Fly?: An Album of Upside Down Drawings - by Joan Baez - Published by Godine
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Tuesday, April 11, 2023, 6:00 pm PST
Meredith Broussard
Meredith Broussard discusses her new book "More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech" published by The MIT Press
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Monday, April 17, 2023, 6:00 pm PST
Robert Greenfield discussing the life and work of Sam Shepard
City Lights and Crown Books celebrate the publication of True West: Sam Shepard's Life, Work, and Times - By Robert Greenfield - Published by Crown Books
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Wednesday, April 19, 2023, 6:00 pm PST
David Mas Masumoto in conversation with Patricia Miye Wakida
City Lights, Red Hen Press, and wasabi press celebrate the publication of SECRET HARVESTS: A Hidden Story of Separation and the Resilience of a Family Farm - by David Mas Masumoto (Artwork by Patricia Wakida) - Published by Red Hen Press
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Thursday, April 20, 2023, 6:00 pm PST
Matthew Zapruder
City Lights and Unnamed Press celebrate the publication of Story of a Poem: a memoir - By Matthew Zapruder - Published by Unnamed Press - This event will be held in Kerouac Alley, between Columbus and Grant Avenues, and City Lights and Vesuvio Cafe. Admission is free to the public. Seating is on a first-come, first-serve basis. This event will not be broadcast live, but an audio recording will be made to be posted on our podcast site.
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Wednesday, April 26, 2023, 6:00 pm PST
Evan Kennedy and Sophia Dahlin
City Lights celebrates the publication of Metamorphoses: City Lights Spotlight No. 22 - by Evan Kennedy - Published by City Lights Books
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Thursday, April 27, 2023, 6:00 pm PST
Katie Farris with Ilya Kaminsky
City Lights and Alice James Books celebrate the publication of Standing in the Forest of Being Alive - by Katie Farris - Published by Alice James Books
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Tuesday, May 2, 2023, 6:00 pm PST
Quenton Baker with Damien M. Sojoyner
Quenton Baker and Damien M. Sojoyner celebrate the publication of new books. Poetry meets prose in an evening of discussion meditating on critical questions about race, abolitionist practice, racial capitalism’s methodologies of oppression, and strategies for liberation.
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Tuesday, May 9, 2023, 6:00 pm PST
Gillian Conoley
City Lights celebrates the publication of Notes from the Passenger - By Gillian Conoly - Published by Nightboat Books
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Thursday, May 11, 2023, 6:00 pm PST
Ada Zhang in conversation with Belinda Huijuan Tang
City Lights in conjunction with A Public Space celebrate the publication of The Sorrows of Others - by Ada Zhang - published by A Public Space
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Tuesday, May 16, 2023, 6:00 pm PST
Fred Moten in conversation with Garrett Caples
City Lights together with Wave Books celebrate the publication of perennial fashion presence falling - By Fred Moten - published by Wave Books
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Thursday, May 25, 2023, 6:00 pm PST
Max Porter
City Lights in conjunction with Graywolf Press present Max Porter reading from his new novel Shy - Published by Graywolf Press - This event will be held in Kerouac Alley, between Columbus and Grant Avenues, and City Lights and Vesuvio Cafe. Admission is free to the public. Seating is on a first-come, first-serve basis. This event will not be broadcast live, but an audio recording will be made to be posted on our podcast site.
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