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Readings at the Bookstore
City Lights has an ongoing series of readings and events, usually at least one or two each week during the Winter, Spring, and Fall. Our online calendar is updated regularly, but if you want to be sure not to miss out on anything, be sure to sign up for our Newsletter to receive weekly updates on what's happening at the bookstore.
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Unless otherwise noted, all events are free and open to the public and take place at City Lights Bookstore | 261 Columbus Avenue | San Francisco, CA 94133
For more information, call us at 415-362-8193 | Map & Directions
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John Freeman in conversation with Jaime Cortez and Rebecca Solnit
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018, 7:30 pm
celebrating the release of
Freeman's Literary Journal: POWER Issue
published by Grove Press
This event cosponsored by LITQUAKE
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Preserving Fire: A meditation on the prose of Philip Lamantia
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco Tuesday, October 23, 2018, 7:00 p.m.
with Garrett Caples, Will Alexander, Micah Ballard, James Brook, Chris Carosi, Steve Fama, Brian Lucas, Nancy Joyce Peters, & Sunnylyn Thibodeaux
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Toward a Calculus of Transgression: Appreciating Jean-Patrick Manchette
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Sunday, October 28, 2018, 5:00 pm
Donald Nicholson-Smith and James Brook discuss the life and work of the seminal genre-bending writer
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Juliana Spahr
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, October 30, 2018, 7pm
discussing the subject of her new book
Du Bois's Telegram : Literary Resistance and State Containment
published by Harvard U. Press
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The Residents
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, October 31, 2018, 7 pm
signing copies of their new book
The Brickeaters
published by Feral House
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Adam Hochschild
City Light Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, November 1, 2018, 7:00 p.m.
discussing the subject of his new book
Lessons from a Dark Time and Other Essays
published by University of California Press
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Tim Mohr in conversation with Penelope Houston
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Monday, November 5, 2018, 7:00 p.m.
Cosponsored by Rock 'n Roll Book Club of San Francisco in conjunction with City Lights and Algonquin Books
celebrating the release of
Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
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Election Night with ZYZZYVA
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, November 6, 2018, 6:30 p.m.
Hosted by Oscar Villalon
with Nestor Gomez, Matthew Zapruder, Caille Millner, Dean Rader, Ismail Muhammad, Vanessa Hua, and D.A. Powell
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George Albon in conversation with Maxwell Shanley
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, November 7, 2018, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of
Lyric Multiples: Aspiration, Practice, Immanence, Migration
from Nightboat Press
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L.A. Kauffman
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, November 8, 2018, 7:00 p.m.
discussing the subject of her new book
How to Read a Protest: The Art of Organizing and Resistance
published by University of California Press
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Peter Nathaniel Malae in conversation with Alan Soldofsky
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Sunday, November 11, 2018, 5:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of
Son of Amity
by Peter Nathaniel Malae - published by Oregon State University Press
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Karen Finley
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, November 13, 2018, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of
Grabbing Pussy
by Karen Finley
published by OR Books
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Celebrating the life and work of Lucia Berlin
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, November 14, 2018, 7:00 p.m.
with David Berlin, Lydia Kiesling, Rachel Khong, Jim Nisbet, and Robin Sloan
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Daniel Levin Becker on the Oulipo
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, November 15, 2018, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of
All That is Evident is Suspect
published by McSweeney's
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Bill Berkson Tribute
San Francisco Art Institute, 800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, 94133
Saturday, November 17, 2018, 4:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of
Since When: A Memoir In Pieces
By Bill Berkson
published by Coffee House Press
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Jeffrey Yang
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, November 27, 2018, 7:00 p.m.
reading from new poetry and a new book:
Hey Marfa: poems
published by Graywolf Press
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Kevin Killian
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, November 28, 2018, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of
Fascination: Memoirs
from Semiotexte
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Eric Karpeles on Józef Czapski
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, November 29, 2018, 7:00 p.m.
in conversation with Cynthia Haven
celebrating the release of three new books
from New York Review Books
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Norma Cole with Steve Dickison: An Omnidawn Party
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, December 4, 2018, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of two new books of poetry
Fate News by Norma Cole and Inside Song by Steve Dickison
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George Lakey
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, December 5, 2018, 7:00 p.m.
discussing the subject of his new book
How We Win: A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning
from Melville House
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Chaya Bhuvaneswar in conversation with Louise Aronson
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, December 6, 2018, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating Chaya Bhuvaneswar's new book
White Dancing Elephants
from Dzanc Books
co-sponsored by UCSF Medical Humanities and City Lights
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Roman Muradov
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, December 11, 2018, 7:00 p.m.
presenting a polyphonic play of interconnected stories
from the new book
Vanishing Act
from Fantagraphics Books
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Marcia Douglas: Natural Herstory Remix
City Light Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, December 12, 2018, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of
The Marvellous Equations of the Dread
published by New Directions Books
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Michael Wall in conversation with Jonathon Keats
Bar Fluxus, 18 Harlan Place, San Francisco, CA 94108, admission free, must be 21 and over
Sunday, December 16, 2018, 5 p.m.
discussing
Alien Life, Antimatter, and Human Space Travel
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