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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 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
EXCLUSIVELY AVAILABLE AT CITY LIGHTS!
Exquisite handmade letterpress edition of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's new poem, "At Sea".
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Ragnarok
The End of the Gods
A. S. Byatt
In this brilliant retelling of the Norse myth about the end of the world, the award-winning author of Possession and The Children's Book unleashes a story of the destruction of life on this planet and the end of the gods themselves.
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These Dreams of You
Steve Erickson
At once immediate and epic, funny and devastating, this new novel by the author of Zeroville is a transcendent dispatch from the intersection of art and politics, passion and memory.
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The Ecstasy of Influence
Nonfictions, etc.
Jonathan Lethem
The snapshot shows Marlon Brando with Lawrence Lessig, Otis Redding beside the Oulipo, and we are in Jonathan Lethem's salon. The table is set with winning large plates - on James Brown, on Bolaño's 2666, along with the title piece - but the greatest...
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A History of the World in 100 Objects
From the Handaxe to the Credit Card
Neil MacGregor
When did people start to wear jewelery or play music? When were cows domesticated and why do we feed their milk to our children? Where were the first cities and what made them succeed? Who developed math - or invented money?
The history of humanity...
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Open City
Teju Cole
Along the streets of Manhattan, a young Nigerian doctor doing his residency wanders aimlessly. The walks meet a need for Julius: they are a release from the tightly regulated mental environment of work, and they give him the opportunity to process...
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The Orphan Master's Son
A Novel of North Korea
Adam Johnson
An epic novel and a thrilling literary discovery, The Orphan Master's Son follows a young man's journey through the icy waters, dark tunnels, and eerie spy chambers of the world's most mysterious dictatorship, North Korea.
Pak Jun Do is the haunted...
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Keynes / Hayek
The Clash that Defined Modern Economics
Nicholas Wapshott
Can government fix a broken economy? Two great economists disagreed eighty years ago, and their debate dominates politics to this day.As the stock market crash of 1929 plunged the world into turmoil, two men emerged with competing claims on how to...
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New from City Lights Publishers!
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Redefining Black Power
Reflections on the State of Black America
Joanne Griffith
Conversations with black leaders and activists exploring current African American political and cultural life.
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Dear White America
Letter to a New Minority
Tim Wise
Wise addresses whites' anxiety about cultural shifts displacing their power and privilege, and offers ideas on how to move forward.
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Citizen
Aaron Shurin
In "Citizen" Shurin has collected vibrant new poems that are, by turns, romantic, visceral, edgy, and unabashedly beautiful.
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Ether
Ben Ehrenreich
An Earth-bound god whose powers are reduced to petty acts of destruction attempts to reclaim his lost seat in the heavens.
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Los Angeles Stories
Ry Cooder
World-famous musician Ry Cooder publishes his first collection of stories.
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Paper Conspiracies
Susan Daitch
The keys to a historic trap are discovered in a cache of forgeries and crumbling film stock.
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More Notes of a Dirty Old Man
The Uncollected Columns
Charles Bukowski, David Calonne
Sequel to his most famous book, "More Notes of a Dirty Old Man" features rare Bukowski columns unseen in decades.
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Waifs and Strays
Micah Ballard
From the bayous of Louisiana to the pavements of San Francisco, Micah Ballard rounds up his haunting waifs and strays.
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To Die in Mexico
Dispatches from Inside the Drug War
John Gibler
On-the-ground reporting and behind-the-scene stories from Mexico's drug war by Mexico-based journalist, John Gibler.
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