City Lights published 8 books in 2022. Here are just some of the highlights, best ofs, and more from another affirming year of work for us.
What’s Good: Notes on Rap and Language by Daniel Levin Becker
- “A Celebration of Rap, and a Shrewd Study of Its Lyricism,” The New York Times
- “The Rules of Rhyme,” The New Yorker
- A New Yorker Best Book of 2022
- A Globe and Mail Best Book of 2022
Twenty Dollars and Change: Harriet Tubman vs. Andrew Jackson, and the Future of American Democracy by Clarence Lusane
- “What lessons can Harriet Tubman teach us today?,” WBUR’s Here and Now
- “Why Harriet Tubman on the $20 Is Symbolism That Matters,” The Daily Beast
- “Shortchanging Harriet,” Yes! Magazine
Things You May Find Hidden In My Ear by Mosab Abu Toha
- “Newly Published Poetry, From Gaza to Zoom Rooms and More,” The New York Times
- “The PEN Ten: An Interview with Mosab Abu Toha,” PEN America
- “Young People’s Poet Laureate Monthly Book Picks,” Poetry Foundation
- “A Farewell to Arms?,” The Hollywood Progressive
- “A Poet and Librarian Catalogs Life in Gaza,” The Markaz Review
Before Whiteness: City Lights Spotlight by D.S. Marriott
- “13 New Books for April,” ALTA Journal
- “Spring 2022 Announcements: Poetry,” Publishers Weekly
Family Album: Stories by Gabriela Alemán
- “Eternally Deferred Mystery: On Gabriela Alemán’s “Family Album”,” Los Angeles Review of Books
- “May Preview: The Millions Most Anticipated (This Month),” The Millions
- “On Family Album | A Conversation with Gabriela Alemán,” Southwest Review
Get the Money! Collected Prose (1961-1983), Edited by Anselm Berrigan, Edmund Berrigan, Alice Notley and Nick Sturm
- “The Sixties Diaries,” The Paris Review
- “She Really Enjoyed Him: Alice Notley on her life with Ted Berrigan,” Poetry Foundation
- “What Do I Say Next? Fast. On Ted Berrigan’s exuberant and idiosyncratic prose,” Poetry Foundation
Divine Blue Light (For John Coltrane): City Lights Pocket Poets Series by Will Alexander
- “Ten Questions for Will Alexander,” Poets & Writers
- “Never Static,” Poetry Foundation
- Starred Review in Publishers Weekly
- “The 27 Best Books About Los Angeles in 2022,” L.A. Taco
Lady Director by Joyce Chopra
- “The way we tell #MeToo stories is changing,” The Washington Post
- “Review: Quentin Tarantino, Joyce Chopra each offer a director’s cut on life in cinema,” The San Francisco Chronicle
- “Joyce Chopra’s “Lady Director” and Chris Smith’s “Sr.”,” Los Angeles Review of Books Radio Hour