Calendar of Events
Monday, July 22, 2024, 6:00 pm PST
Premal Dharia and Maria Hawilo / Dismantling Mass Incarceration
City Lights and Farrar Straus Giroux celebrate the publication of Dismantling Mass Incarceration: A Handbook for Change - Edited by Premal Dharia, James Forman Jr., and Maria Hawilo- Published by FSG Originals - Premal Dharia and Maria Hawilo in conversation. Moderated by Josie Duffy Rice
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Tuesday, July 23, 2024, 6:00 pm PST
Satsuki Ina in conversation with Brandon Shimoda (CANCELLED)
City Lights and Heyday Books celebrate the publication of The Poet and the Silk Girl: A Memoir of Love, Imprisonment, and Protest - By Satsuki Ina - Published by Heyday Books
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Wednesday, July 24, 2024, 6:00 pm PST
DW Gibson / One Week to Change the World
City Lights celebrates the publication of One Week to Change the World: An Oral History of the 1999 WTO Protests - By DW Gibson - Published by Simon & Schuster - DW Gibson is joined by Celia Alario, four waters, and David Solnit
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Tuesday, July 30, 2024, 6:00 pm PST
Bushra Rehman in conversation with May-lee Chai
Bushra Rehman and May-lee Chai discuss Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion - by Bushra Rehman - published by Flatiron Books
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Wednesday, July 31, 2024, 6:00 pm PST
Daniel Borzutzky in conversation with Ricardo Alberto Maldonado
City Lights and Coffee House Press celebrate the publication of The Murmuring Grief of the Americas - By Daniel Borzutzky - Published by Coffee House Press
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Friday, August 2, 2024, 5:00 pm PST
First Fridays: A City Lights Reading Series
City Lights and Beyond Baroque co-present Will Alexander, mimi tempestt, and Joseph Rios reading from new work - hosted by Carlos Quinteros III and soledad con carne - Free to the public - This event is held in Jack Kerouac Alley, between City Lights Booksellers and Vesuvio Cafe
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Monday, August 5, 2024, 6:00 pm PST
Nahum Dimitri Chandler with Hortense J. Spillers and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
City Lights and Duke University Press celebrate the publication of Annotations: On the Early Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois - by Nahum Dimitri Chandler - published by Duke University Press
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Tuesday, August 6, 2024, 6:00 pm PST
Paul S. Hirsch/Pulp Empire: The Secret History of Comic Book Imperialism
Paul S. Hirsch discusses his new book Pulp Empire: The Secret History of Comic Book Imperialism - Published by University of Chicago Press - Winner of the Popular Culture Association’s Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Book in Popular or American Culture
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Thursday, August 8, 2024, 6:00 pm PST
Dinaw Mengestu in conversation with Eirinie Carson
City Lights and Alfred A Knopf celebrate the publication of Someone Like Us: A novel - By Dinaw Mengestu - Published by Alfred A Knopf
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Sunday, August 11, 2024, 12:00 pm PST
Dancing with the Dead: Red Pine and the Art of Translation
The Roxie Theater together with City Lights, Copper Canyon Press, and the San Francisco Zen Center present Dancing with the Dead: Red Pine and the Art of Translation - A Film by Ward Serrill - Produced by Rocky Friedman - Tickets available through The Roxie Theater.
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Tuesday, August 13, 2024, 6:00 pm PST
Women & Psychedelics: A Panel Discussion
City Lights, Chacruna, and Synergetic Press celebrate the publication of "Women and Psychedelics: Uncovering Invisible Voices" - Edited by Erika Dyck, Patrick Farrell, Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Ph.D., Clancy Cavnar, Psy.D., Ibrahim Gabriell, and Glauber Loures de Assis, Ph.D. - Foreword by Kathleen Harrison - Published by Synergetic Press
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Wednesday, August 14, 2024, 6:00 pm PST
Kate Gale with Helen Benedict and Denise Frost
Celebrating the publication of Under a Neon Sun (Three Rooms Press), The Good Deed, and A Punishing Breed (Red Hen Press)
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Sunday, August 18, 2024, 1:00 pm PST
Poetry In The Alley
Join City Lights for an afternoon of poetry readings in Kerouac Alley from local poets showcasing new work - with Josiah Luis Alderete, soledad con carne, Rusty Morrison, Achy Obejas, Carlos Quinteros III, Maw Shein Win. - Hosted by Peter Maravelis - Free to the public
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Monday, August 19, 2024, 6:00 pm PST
Stacey D’Erasmo with R.O. Kwon
City Lights and Graywolf Press celebrate the publication of The Long Run: A Creative Inquiry - By Stacey D’Erasmo -published by Graywolf Press
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Tuesday, August 20, 2024, 6:00 pm PST
Eugene Lim
Eugene Lim in conversation with Ian Dreiblatt - City Lights and Coffee House Press celebrate the publication of a new edition of Fog & Car - by Eugene Lim - Published by Coffee House Press
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Friday, August 23, 2024, 7:00 pm PST
Eugene Rodriguez and Friends
City Lights together with Heyday Books and Los Cenzontles celebrate the publication of Bird of Four Hundred Voices: A Mexican American Memoir of Music and Belonging - By Eugene Rodriguez - published by Heyday Books - with special guests Davia Nelson (Kitchen Sisters), Robert Mailer Anderson (Boonville), and Los Cenzontles Ensemble
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Sunday, August 25, 2024, 7:30 pm PST
Too Much Too Young: The 2-Tone Records Story
City Lights, Akashic Books and The Makeout Room celebrate the publication of Too Much Too Young, the 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys, Racism, and the Soundtrack of a Generation - By Daniel Rachel - Published by Akashic Books
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