Readings at the Bookstore

City Lights regularly hosts events with authors from across the publishing world. Since we can't accommodate a lot of folks in the bookstore, we've launched the City Lights LIVE! Virtual Events Series. Click on the listings below to learn more, and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter for regular updates.

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Mahmood Mamdani in conversation with Gil Anidjar This is a virtual event which will be held on the Zoom platform. Click the link in the event description for info. Sunday, January 17, 2021, 12:00 p.m. (noon) PT / 3:00 p.m. ET discussing Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities by Mahmood Mamdani published by Belknap Press (an imprint of Harvard University Press)		Thursday, January 28th, 1pm PT / 4pm ET A virtual book launch hosted by City Lights and Speak Out!

The Echoing Ida Collective with Cynthia R. Greenlee, Alicia Walters, and Jordan Scruggs This is a virtual event which will be held on the Zoom platform. Click the link in the event description for info. Wednesday, January 27, 2021, 6:00 p.m. PT / 9:00 p.m. ET evening of discussion celebrating the launch of the new book The Echoing Ida Collection Edited by Cynthia R. Greenlee, Kemi Alabi, and Janna A. Zinzi published by The Feminist Press		Peter Gizzi in conversation with CA Conrad This is a virtual event which will be held on the Zoom platform. Click the link in the event description for info. Thursday January 28, 2021, 6:00 p.m. PT / 9:00 p.m. ET Peter Gizzi reads from Now It's Dark: poems published by Wesleyan University Press

Dantiel W. Moniz in conversation with C Pam Zhang This is a virtual event which will be held on the Zoom platform. Click the link in the event description for info. Thursday, February 4, 2021, 6:00 p.m. PT / 9:00 p.m. ET celebrating Dantiel Moniz's new novel Milk Blood Heat published by Grove Atlantic Press		Nicole Perlroth in conversation with David Sanger This is a virtual event which will be held on the Zoom platform. Click the link in the event description for info. Wednesday, February 10, 2021, 6:00 p.m. PT / 9:00 p.m. ET discussing Nicole Perlroth's new book *This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyber Weapons Arms Race* Published by Bloomsbury Books

Brontez Purnell in conversation with Melissa Broder This is a virtual event which will be held on the Zoom platform. Click the link in the event description for info. Wednesday, February 17, 2021, 6:00 p.m. PT / 9:00 p.m. ET celebrating the launch of Brontez Purnell's new book 100 Boyfriends published by MCD x FSG Originals		Daphne A. Brooks This is a virtual event which will be held on the Zoom platform. Click the link in the event description for info. Wednesday, February 24, 2021, 6:00 p.m. PT / 9:00 p.m. ET discussing her new book Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound published by Belknap Press / Harvard University Press

Viet Thanh Nguyen This is a virtual event which will be held on an internet streaming platform to be announced. Tuesday, March 2, 2021, exact time TBA Bay Area Book Festival in conjunction with City Lights and Grove Atlantic Press celebrate the release of Viet Thanh Nguyen's new novel The Committed published by Grove Atlantic Press		Courtney Zoffness with Rita Bullwinkel and Mat Johnson This is a virtual event which will be held on the Zoom platform. Click the link in the event description for info. Wednesday, March 3, 2021, 6:00 p.m. PT / 9:00 p.m. ET celebrating the publication of Courtney Zoffness' new memoir Spilt Milk published by McSweeney's

Joshua Mohr in conversation with Lidia Yuknavitch This is a virtual event which will be held on the Zoom platform. Click the link in the event description for info. Tuesday, March 9, 2021, 6:00 p.m. PT / 9:00 p.m. ET celebrating the launch of Joshua Mohr's new book Model Citizen: a memoir published by MCD/FSG		Kim Addonizio & Friends This is a virtual event which will be held on the Zoom platform. Click the link in the event description for info. Tuesday March 16, 2021, 6:00 p.m. PT/ 9:00 p.m. ET celebrating the launch of her new collection Now We're Getting Somewhere: Poems published by W.W. Norton

Patricia Engel joined by Roberto Lovato, Jean Guerrero, Juliana Delgado Lopera This is a virtual event which will be held on the Zoom platform. Click the link in the event description for info. Thursday, March 18, 2021, 6:00 p.m. PT / 9:00 p.m. ET celebrating the launch of her new novel Infinite Country published by Simon and Schuster		Pola Oloixarac in conversation with John Freeman This is a virtual event which will be held on the Zoom platform. Click the link in the event description for info. Saturday, March 20, 2021, 12:00 p.m. PT / 3:00 p.m. ET reading and discussing her new novel MONA Translated by Adam Morris, published by Farrar Straus Giroux

Jesse McCarthy This is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. Thursday, March 25, 2021, 6:00 p.m. PT / 9:00 p.m. ET discussing his new book Who Will Pay Reparation On My Soul: Essays published by Liveright Books/W.W, Norton		Hoa Nguyen with Garrett Caples This is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. Tuesday, April 6, 2021, 6:00 p.m. PT / 9:00 p.m. ET Hoa Nguyen reads from her new poetry collection A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure published by Wave Books

Courttia Newland in conversation with Naomi Jackson and Victor LaValle This is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. Saturday, April 17, 2021, 12:00 p.m. Noon PT / 3:00 p.m. ET discussing Courttia Newland's newly published novel A River Called Time from Akashic Books