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Welcome to City Lights Bookstore!
A literary meeting place since 1953, City Lights is a landmark general bookstore, internationally known for its expert selection of books and for its commitment to free intellectual inquiry. Here you can check out our events calendar, browse a selection of featured books, new releases and recommended titles from the City Lights staff, sign up to receive City Lights newsletters, and learn a bit of the history of City Lights.
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 ABOUT OUR NEW BOOKSTORE SECTION, "PEDAGOGIES OF RESISTANCE"
Created in the wake of the November 2016 election, our newest bookstore section, Pedagogies of Resistance, is designed to act as an educational course in revolutionary competence. These texts build upon one another to highlight the motivations, ideas, successes, and failures that define past and present revolutionary movements in order to illuminate possibilities for current and future movement builders.
This developing list consists of nearly 200 books, and can be found on a visit to our bookstore—we hope you'll come by to check out our new section. Our democracy needs every one of us to be as informed and engaged as possible! Arm yourself with information. The list was originally conceived in January 2017 and then updated in July 2017.
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Featured and Recommended Titles at the Bookstore
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How Fascism Works
The Politics of Us & Them
Jason Stanley
Fascist politics are running rampant in America today—and spreading around the world. A Yale philosopher identifies the ten pillars of fascist politics, and charts their horrifying rise and deep history.
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How to Read a Protest
The Art of Organizing & Resistance
L.A. Kauffman
In this original and richly illustrated account, organizer and journalist L.A. Kauffman delves into the history of America's major demonstrations, beginning with the legendary 1963 March on Washington, to reveal the ways protests work and how their character has shifted over time.
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Lessons from a Dark Time & Other Essays
Adam Hochschild
In this rich collection, bestselling author Adam Hochschild has selected and updated over two dozen essays and pieces of reporting from his long career.
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All That Is Evident Is Suspect
Readings from the Oulipo, 1963 - 2018
Daniel Levin Becker, Ian Monk
The first collection in English to offer a life-size picture of the famous Oulipo in its historical and contemporary incarnations, and the first in any language to represent all of its members (numbering 41 as of April 2018 ).
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Evening in Paradise
More Stories
Lucia Berlin
A collection of previously uncompiled stories from the short-story master and literary sensation Lucia Berlin.
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The Book of Disquiet
The Complete Edition
Fernando Pessoa
In the late hours of night, for days on end, I wasted myself reading this book—I too had grown tired of the tedium in my daily routine, and for a while, this peculiar book was enough. The complete edition is the one to have! —Recommended by Jared
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Burning Down the Haus
Punk Rock, Revolution, & the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Tim Mohr
This secret history of East German punk rock is not just about the music; it is a story of extraordinary bravery in the face of one of the most oppressive regimes in history.
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Preserving Fire
Selected Prose
Philip Lamantia, Garrett Caples
Preserving Fire recounts the life and thought of Surrealist, Beat Generation, and San Francisco Renaissance poet Philip Lamantia through his fugitive prose works
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Emergent Strategy
Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
adrienne marie brown
Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategy is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help designed to shape the futures we want to live.
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Women of Resistance
Poems for a New Feminism
Danielle Barnhart, Iris Mahan
"Pick up this glowing book as you're crawling through the rubble, and poem by poem and page by page you’ll begin to know that you’ll be okay. You’re in there, and so are your friends. You won’t starve, you’re safe and strong thanks to all these proud, funny, violent, trembling words." --Eileen Myles
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Alienation and Freedom
Frantz Fanon
A fascinating array of uncollected (and several previously lost) essays by the great Pan-African philosopher and post-colonial theorist. This tome gives us a deeper and more personal portrait of the man himself, and his essays on racism, anti-imperialism and the psychology of fascism remain deeply relevant today.—Recommended by Michael
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Fruit of the Drunken Tree
A Novel
Ingrid Rojas Conteras
Every character in this novel is lovingly portrayed with complexity and nuance; each grows and shifts under the strain of unpredictable violence in Escobar's Colombia. --Recommended by Ivy, City Lights Booksellers
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They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
Essays
Hanif Abdurraqib
"THIS IS MY FAVORITE COLLECTION OF ESSAYS RIGHT NOW. IF YOU DON'T APPRECIATE HANIF ABDURRAQIB, YOU'RE NOT MY FRIEND! --Recommended by Jared
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The Mars Room
Rachel Kushner
Stunning and unsentimental, The Mars Room demonstrates new levels of mastery and depth in Kushner's work. It is audacious and tragic, propulsive and yet beautifully refined. —Recommended by Vanessa & Paul
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Little Man, Little Man
A Story of a Childhood
James Baldwin, Nicholas Boggs
Now available for the first time in forty years, this new edition of Little Man, Little Man—which retains the charming original illustrations by French artist Yoran Cazac—includes a foreword by Baldwin's nephew Tejan "TJ" Karefa-Smart and an afterword by his niece Aisha Karefa-Smart, with an introduction by two Baldwin scholars.
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A Lucky Man
Stories
Jamel Brinkley
Jamel Brinkley's stories, in a debut that announces the arrival of a significant new voice, reflect the tenderness and vulnerability of black men and boys whose hopes sometimes betray them, especially in a world shaped by race, gender, and class―where luck may be the greatest fiction of all. —Recommended by Andy
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