Calendar of Events
Tuesday, July 16, 2024, 12:00 pm PST
Yanis Varoufakis
City Lights and Melville House present Yanis Varoufakis discussing his new book Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism - published by Melville House
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Wednesday, July 17, 2024, 6:00 pm PST
Erin McElroy / Silicon Valley Imperialism
The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, City Lights, and Duke University Press present Erin McElroy in conversation with Chris Carlsson, Manissa M. Maharawal, Toshio Meronek, and Lisa Rofel celebrating the publication of Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times - By Erin McElroy - Published by Duke University Press
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Saturday, July 20, 2024, 11:00 am PST
Poetry in the Age of Machine Intelligence
Black Ocean Books and City Lights celebrate the publication of I Create Like the Word: Poetry in the Age of Machine Intelligence - Curated by Jesse Damiani, promptcraft by Alexander Reben - Published by Black Ocean
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Sunday, July 21, 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 George Albon, James Cagney, Garrett Caples, hector son of hector, Evan Kennedy, Barbara Jane Reyes, and Preeti Vangani - Hosted by Peter Maravelis
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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
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 Drieblatt - 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 Rodriquez - published by Heyday Books - with special guests Davia Nelson (Kitchen Sisters), Robert Mailer Anderson (Boonville), Los Cenzontles Ensemble, and more TBA
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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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