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Visit the City Lights Blog:
Happy 2013! Visit blogcitylights.com, our virtual home for writers, artists, and books we love.
Next week at City Lights!
Tues. Feb. 19th, 7pm—Daniel Levin Becker & Scott Esposito discuss the work of Georges Perec
Thurs. Feb. 21st, 7:00pm—Josh Mohr & friends in The Fight Song Show! Get your free tickets here.
Upcoming 2013 events featuring Joyce Carol Oates, Terry Tempest Williams,
Josh Mohr, Sam Lipsyte, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Victor LaValle & many more!
New! Live from City Lights Podcasts featuring:
ZYZZYVA's Fall Release Party—Ngugi wa'Thiong'o—Adam Johnson—Chris Kraus
Stay tuned! Subscribe to our podcast's RSS feed or through iTunes.
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Welcome to City Lights Books of San Francisco
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City Lights is a landmark independent bookstore and publisher that specializes in world literature, the arts, and progressive politics.
Founded in 1953 by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Peter D. Martin, City Lights is one of the truly great independent bookstores in the United States, a place where booklovers from across the country and around the world come to browse, read, and just soak in the ambiance of alternative culture's only "Literary Landmark."... Read more>>
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New at City Lights Bookstore
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At Sea
A Poem for Pablo Neruda
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
EXCLUSIVELY AVAILABLE AT CITY LIGHTS!
Exquisite handmade letterpress edition of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's new poem, "At Sea".
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Time of Useful Consciousness
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Lawrence Ferlinghetti's first book since Poetry as Insurgent Art, a new call to action and a vivid picture of civilization moving towards its brink.
New Directions is proud to announce a riveting and galvanizing new book by Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
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Tenth of December
Stories
George Saunders
George saunders has this ability to pair the grim with the quirky, the brutal with the bizarrely hopeful, so that his stories never tip over completely into darkness. He captures the nastiness of violence, consumerism and sexism while keeping the tone...
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Black Against Empire
The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
Joshua Bloom, Waldo E. Martin
In Oakland, California, in 1966, community college students Bobby Seale and Huey Newton armed themselves, began patrolling the police, and promised to prevent police brutality. Unlike the Civil Rights Movement that called for full citizenship rights...
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Rage is Back
A Novel
Adam Mansbach
Number one New York Times bestselling author Adam Mansbach returns with a blockbuster tale of revenge, redemption, and the world's most beautiful crime. Dondi Vance is the son of two famous graffiti artists from New York City's "golden era" of subway...
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Plato's Republic
A Dialogue in 16 Chapters
Alain Badiou
Plato's Republic is one of the best-known and most widely-discussed texts in the history of philosophy. But how might we get to the heart of this work today, 2,500 years after its original composition? Alain Badiou breathes life into Plato's landmark...
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1Q84
Haruki Murakami
The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.
A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence...
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Hallucinations
Oliver Sacks
Have you ever seen something that wasn't really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing? Hallucinations don’t belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are...
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New and Forthcoming from City Lights Publishers
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National Insecurity
The Cost of American Militarism
Melvin A. Goodman
Now available! Former CIA analyst reveals why pumping more money into US military spending destabilizes both the economy and long-term national security.
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City Lights Blank Journal
Just in! The New City Lights Blank Journal, available only on our website and at the City Lights bookstore!
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Robert Duncan in San Francisco
Michael Rumaker
HOT OFF THE PRESS: A revealing portrait of a major poet of the SF Renaissance and a gripping account of late '50s gay life.
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Winged Shoes and a Shield
Collected Stories
Don Bajema
Fresh on the shelves: Back in print and collected into one volume, stories from Don Bajema's underground sensations, Boy in the Air and Reach.
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Sister Spit
Writing, Rants and Reminiscence from the Road
Michelle Tea
The inaugural book of the new City Lights/Sister Spit Series! A collection of writing and artwork from Sister Spit, the hilariously feminist, gender-bending, genre-busting literary roadshow.
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A Long Day's Evening
Bilge Karasu
New, in translation: Turkey's great experimental modernist pens a philosophical novel in three parts about desire, faith, and the psychology of prohibited love.
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San Francisco Chinatown
A Guide to Its History and Architecture
Philip P. Choy
JUST PUBLISHED! Both a history of America's oldest Chinese community and a guide to its significant sites and architecture San Francisco Chinatown is the first book of its kind, written by someone born and raised there.
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Nervous Device
Catherine Wagner
NEW SPOTLIGHT POETRY! With Nervous Device, Catherine Wagner explores the boundary the poem marks between poet and audience, questioning the potential for human connection.
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A Time of Angels
Homero Aridjis
A poetic fable, illustrated by one of Mexico's most prominent artists, describes a dreamy contemplation of the reign of angels.
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