by Garrett Caples | Mar 20, 2024 | Blog
Neeli Cherkovski (1945–2024) It is with much sadness yet with countless fond memories that City Lights announces the death of one of our longstanding poet compadres, Neeli Cherkovski. Born Nelson Cherry in Santa Monica in 1945, Neeli reverted to his family’s...
by CityLightsBlog | Dec 15, 2023 | Blog
By Stan Cox “In Real Time” is a monthly series on our blog by Stan Cox, author of The Path to a Livable Future and The Green New Deal and Beyond. The series follows the climate, voting rights, and justice movements as they navigate America’s unfolding...
by CityLightsBlog | Nov 21, 2023 | Blog
Since the very beginning, in 1953, City Lights has served as a literary meeting place, bringing people together through books. In both our bookstore and our publishing house, we have often been at the vanguard, discovering and championing innovative, unconventional...
by City Lights Intern | Nov 21, 2023 | Blog
Ian Johnson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who has spent twenty years in China writing for The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, as well as serving for five years on the editorial board of The Journal of Asian Studies. He is...
by CityLightsBlog | Nov 8, 2023 | Blog
Photo Credit: Xavi Permanyer Robert Glück is a poet, fiction writer, critic, and editor. With Bruce Boone, he founded the New Narrative movement in San Francisco. His poetry collections include Reader and, with Boone, La Fontaine. His fiction includes the story...
by City Lights Intern | Nov 8, 2023 | Blog
Joseph Lease’s critically acclaimed books of poetry include The Body Ghost, Testify, Broken World, and Human Rights. His poem “Broken World (for James Assatly)” was selected for The Best American Poetry 2002, edited by Robert Creeley and David Lehman. His...
by City Lights Intern | Oct 30, 2023 | Blog
Benjamin Weber is an assistant professor of African American and African Studies at the University of California, Davis. He has worked at the Vera Institute of Justice, Alternate ROOTS, the Marcus Garvey and UNIA Papers Project, and as a public high school...
by Stan Cox | Oct 26, 2023 | Blog
By Stan Cox “In Real Time” is a monthly series on our blog by Stan Cox, author of The Path to a Livable Future and The Green New Deal and Beyond. The series follows the climate, voting rights, and justice movements as they navigate America’s unfolding crisis of...
by CityLightsBlog | Oct 17, 2023 | Blog
Photo Credit: Torkil Stavdal Jonathan Lethem is the bestselling author of twelve novels, including The Arrest, The Feral Detective, The Fortress of Solitude, and Motherless Brooklyn, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. He currently teaches creative...
by CityLightsBlog | Oct 17, 2023 | Blog
mimi tempestt (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and daughter of California. She has a M.A. in Literature from Mills College, and is currently a doctoral candidate in the Creative/Critical Ph.D. in Literature at UC Santa Cruz. Her first book, the...
by CityLightsBlog | Oct 12, 2023 | Blog
Ayana Mathis first novel, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, was a New York Times best seller, an NPR Best Book of 2013, the second selection for Oprah’s Book Club 2.0. and has been translated into sixteen languages. Her nonfiction has been published in The New York Times,...
by CityLightsBlog | Oct 10, 2023 | Blog
Dylan C. Penningroth is a professor of law and history at the University of California, Berkeley. Recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and author of the award-winning THE CLAIMS OF KINFOLK, he lives in Kensington, California. Dylan C. Penningroth will be in...
by CityLightsBlog | Oct 9, 2023 | Blog
Justin Torres is the author of WE THE ANIMALS, which won the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, was translated into fifteen languages, and was adapted into a feature film. He was named a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35,” a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford...
by CityLightsBlog | Oct 9, 2023 | Blog
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, a New York Times best-selling author, grew up in rural Oklahoma in a tenant farming family. She has been active in the international Indigenous movement for more than 4 decades and is known for her lifelong commitment to national and...
by CityLightsBlog | Oct 2, 2023 | Blog
Lisa Teasley is the author of the award-winning story collection Glow in the Dark and the critically acclaimed novels, Dive and Heat Signature (Bloomsbury). Her writings have been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, and Arabic. Lisa Teasley’s stories...
by CityLightsBlog | Sep 20, 2023 | Blog
Myriam Gurba is a writer and artist. She is the author of the true crime memoir MEAN, a New York Times Editors’ Choice. O, The Oprah Magazine, ranked MEAN as one of the best LGBTQ books of all time. Publishers Weekly describes Gurba as having a voice like no other....
by CityLightsBlog | Sep 14, 2023 | Blog
By Stan Cox “In Real Time” is a monthly series on our blog by Stan Cox, author of The Path to a Livable Future and The Green New Deal and Beyond. The series follows the climate, voting rights, and justice movements as they navigate America’s unfolding crisis of...
by CityLightsBlog | Sep 11, 2023 | Blog
Edan Lepucki is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels California and Woman No. 17, as well as the editor of Mothers Before: Stories and Portraits of our Mothers As We Never Saw Them. Her nonfiction has been published in The New York Times Magazine, The...
by CityLightsBlog | Sep 11, 2023 | Blog
Lydia Kiesling is the author of The Golden State, a 2018 National Book Foundation 5 under 35 honoree, a finalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times...
by CityLightsBlog | Aug 31, 2023 | Blog
Photo Credit: Attila Bartis Chloe Aridjis is a Mexican American writer based in London. She is the author of three novels, Book of Clouds, which won the Prix du Premier Roman Etranger in France, Asunder, set in London’s National Gallery, and Sea Monsters, awarded the...
