Calendar of Events
Monday, March 18, 2024, 6:00 pm PST (Event Passed)
Joyce Carol Oates in conversation with Steve Wasserman
City Lights and Akashic Books celebrate the publication of Joyce Carol Oates: Letters to a Biographer - Edited by Greg Johnson - Published by Akashic Books
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Tuesday, March 19, 2024, 6:00 pm PST
Maurice Carlos Ruffin with Jamila Minnicks
Maurice Carlos Ruffin in conversation with Jamila Minnicks - City Lights and One World Books celebrate the publication of The American Daughters - by Maurice Carlos Ruffin Published by One World
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Wednesday, March 20, 2024, 6:00 pm PST
Lucy Sante in conversation with Cintra Wilson
Lucy Sante in conversation with Cintra Wilson - celebrating the publication of I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition - Published by Penguin Press
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Monday, March 25, 2024, 6:00 pm PST
Wayne Koestenbaum in conversation with Tausif Noor
Wayne Koestenbaum reads from Stubble Archipelago published by Semiotext(e)
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Tuesday, March 26, 2024, 6:00 pm PST
Diane Seuss & Gail Wronsky
Diane Seuss & Gail Wronsky reading from new work - Pulitzer Prize winning poet Diane Seuss celebrates the launch of her new collection Modern Poetry: poems - published by Graywolf Press
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Thursday, March 28, 2024, 6:00 pm PST
Judith Butler
Judith Butler discusses their new book - Who's Afraid of Gender? - published by Farrar Straus Giroux
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Saturday, March 30, 2024, 7:30 pm PST
The Outspoken and the Incendiary: A Literary Celebration of the Life and Work of Terry Bisson
City Lights, Locus Magazine, and PM Press celebrate the life and work of Terry Bisson - MC'd by Ramsey Kanaan and Peter Maravelis with Diana Block, Peter Coyote, Karen Joy Fowler, Jonathan Lethem, Nick Mamatas, Kim Stanley Robinson, Rudy Rucker, and Carter Scholz - Admission $15.00
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Tuesday, April 2, 2024, 6:00 pm PST
(POSTPONED) 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, April 3, 2024, 7:00 pm PST
Roberto Harrison
City Lights celebrates No.23 in the Spotlight Poetry Series Isthmus to Abya Yala - By Roberto Harrison - Published by City Lights Books
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Monday, April 8, 2024, 6:00 pm PST
Susannah Fox
City Lights and The MIT Press celebrate the publication of Rebel Health: A Field Guide to the Patient-Led Revolution in Medical Care - by Susannah Fox - Published by The MIT Press
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Tuesday, April 9, 2024, 7:00 pm PST
Deborah Taffa
Deborah Taffa in conversation with Dean Rader celebrating the publication of Whiskey Tender: A Memoir - By Deborah Taffa - published by Harper Collins
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Thursday, April 11, 2024, 7:00 pm PST
ALTA Issue 17 Party / Tayi Tibble with Forrest Gander, Sylvia Brownrigg, Rebecca Goldstein, and Rafael Musa
City Lights joins ALTA Journal to celebrate its 17th issue! Tayi Tibble reads from her new collection of poetry Rangikura: Poems, published by Alfred A Knopf - to be joined by Forrest Gnader, Sylvia Brownrigg, and ALTA Crossword constructors Rebecca Goldstein and Rafael Musa
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Saturday, April 13, 2024, 1:00 pm PST
Amy Lyford with Jennifer L. Shaw
City Lights in conjunction with the Gallery Wendi Norris and Reaktion Books present Amy Lyford in conversation with Jennifer L. Shaw discussing the life and work of Dorothea Tanning - celebrating the publication of Exquisite Dreams: The Art and Life of Dorothea Tanning - by Amy Lyford - published by Reaktion Books
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Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 7:00 pm PST
Elwin Cotman
Elwin Cotman reads from Weird Black Girls: Stories published by Scribner
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Thursday, April 18, 2024, 7:00 pm PST
Ana Raquel Minian
Ana Raquel Minian discusses her new book In the Shadow of Liberty: The Invisible History of Immigrant Detention in the United States - Published by Viking
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Tuesday, April 23, 2024, 12:00 pm PST
CAConrad and Lisa Jarnot
City Lights and Wave Books present CAConrad and Lisa Jarnot reading from new work - CA Conrad celebrates the publication of Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return published by Wave Books - Lisa Jarnot celebrates the publication of Four Lectures also published by Wave Books
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Wednesday, April 24, 2024, 7:00 pm PST
Greg Sarris in conversation with Blaise Zerega
City Lights, ALTA Journal, and Heyday Books celebrate the publication of The Forgetters: stories - by Greg Sarris - published by Heyday Books
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Thursday, April 25, 2024, 7:00 pm PST
Joel Gion / In the Jingle Jangle Jungle
City Lights in conjunction with Rare Bird Lit present Joel Gion celebrating the publication of In the Jingle Jangle Jungle: Keeping Time with the Brian Jonestown Massacre - published by Rare Bird Lit
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Saturday, April 27, 2024, 11:00 am PST
Voluptuous Life: A Tribute to the Life and Work of Mel Gordon
City Lights, Morbid Curiosity, and Strange Attractor Press present an afternoon in appreciation of the life and work of Mel Gordon - Moderated by Joanna Ebenstein and Peter Maravelis with Maer Ben-Yisreal, Russell Blackwood,, Ati Citron, J. Hoberman, La Pustra, Mark Pilkington, Jill Tracy, Christina Ward, and others tba - In celebration of the posthumous publication of Cabarets of Death: Death, Dance and Dining in Early Twentieth-Century Paris - by Mel Gordon - Edited by Joanna Ebenstein - Published by Strange Attractor Press
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Tuesday, April 30, 2024, 7:00 pm PST
Angela Garcia
City Lights and Farrar, Straus, Giroux celebrate the launch of The Way That Leads Among the Lost: Life, Death, and Hope in Mexico City's Anexos - By Angela Garcia - Published by Farrar, Straus, Giroux
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Wednesday, May 1, 2024, 7:00 pm PST
Paul Yamazaki in conversation with Oscar Villalon
City Lights and Ode Books celebrate the publication of Reading the Room: A Bookseller's Tale - By Paul Yamazaki, (Foreword by Rick Simonson) - Published by Ode Books
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Thursday, May 2, 2024, 7:00 pm PST
Jakuta Alikavazovic in conversation with Anna Wiener
City Lights, Fern Books, Center for the Art of Translation, and Villa Albertine San Francisco celebrate the publication of Like a Sky Inside - by Jakuta Alikavazovic - translated from the French by Daniel Levin Becker - published by Fern Books
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Monday, May 6, 2024, 7:00 pm PST
A Nostalgia for English: Rethinking Language, Refiguring the Discipline
City Lights in conjunction with Department of English/University of San Francisco, Department of English/Dominican University of California, Fordham University Press, and Stanford University Press present A Nostalgia for English: Rethinking Language, Refiguring the Discipline - Amy R. Wong in conversation with Christopher Rovee, moderated by Omar F Miranda - Free to the Public
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Tuesday, May 7, 2024, 7:00 pm PST
Rusty Morrison with Maw Shein Win
City Lights and Black Ocean Books present Rusty Morrison celebrating the launch of her new collection Risk - Published by Black Ocean
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Thursday, May 9, 2024, 7:00 pm PST
Jordan Elgrably
Jordan Elgrably in conversation with Sarah AlKahly-Mills - City Lights celebrates the publication of Stories from the Center of the World: New Middle East Fiction - Edited by Jordan Elgrably - published by City Lights Books
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Saturday, May 11, 2024, 12:00 pm PST
Debbie Hines
City Lights and The MIT Press celebrate the publication of Get Off My Neck: Black Lives, White Justice, and a Former Prosecutor's Quest for Reform - by Debbie Hines -Published by The MIT Press
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Tuesday, May 14, 2024, 7:00 pm PST
Zyzzyva Issue 127 Launch Celebration
Join City Lights in celebrating another fine issue from San Francisco's premier journal of letters - Moderated by Oscar Villalon with appearances by James Cagney, Rose Himber Howse, and Hannah Kingsley-Ma
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Thursday, May 16, 2024, 7:00 pm PST
Robert Mailer Anderson
City Lights and Fantagraphics celebrate the launch of My Fairy Godfather - Text by Robert Mailer Anderson - Illustrations by Jon Sack - published by Fantagraphics
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Monday, May 20, 2024, 7:00 pm PST
Neeli Cherkovski
Neeli Cherkovski reads from his new poetry collection -Selected Poems 1959-2022 - published by Lithic Press
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Tuesday, May 21, 2024, 7:00 pm PST
K-Ming Chang
City Lights and Coffee House Press celebrate the publication of Cecilia - by K-Ming Chang - Published by Coffee House Press
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Wednesday, May 22, 2024, 7:00 pm PST
Kit Schluter with Garrett Caples – Book Launch Party
Kit Schulter celebrates the publication of Cartoons published by City Lights - and - Garrett Caples celebrates the publication of Proses: Incomparable Parables! Fabulous Fables! Cruel Tales! published by Wave Books
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Wednesday, May 29, 2024, 6:00 pm PST
Lindsey Dillon / Toxic City: Redevelopment and Environmental Justice in San Francisco
City Lights in conjunction with San Francisco Bay Chapter Physicians for Social Responsibility present Lindsey Dillon discussing her new book Toxic City: Redevelopment and Environmental Justice in San Francisco - published by University of California Press
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Thursday, May 30, 2024, 7:00 pm PST
Launch Party for Gil Cuadros’ MY BODY IS PAPER
An evening with Kevin Martin, Rafael Pérez-Torres and Amy Scholder- City Lights celebrates the publication of My Body Is Paper: Stories and Poems - by Gil Cuadros (Edited by Pablo Alvarez, Kevin Martin, Rafael Pérez-Torres, and Terry Wolverton) - Foreword by Justin Torres - Published by City Lights Books
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Wednesday, July 10, 2024, 6:00 pm PST
Trevor Paglen in conversation with Anthony Downey
City Lights and Sternberg Press celebrate the publication of Trevor Paglen: Adversarially Evolved Hallucinations - by Trevor Paglen - Edited by Anthony Downey - Published by Sternberg Press/via The MIT Press
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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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