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. Our 2021 calendar will be posted soon.

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Derek McCormack and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore This is a virtual event which will be held on the Zoom platform. Click the link in the event description for info. Thursday, December 3, 2020, 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EDT A Semiotexte Books Double Bill with two razor-sharp writers of fiction		Sun Ra's Chicago: Afrofuturism and the City This is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. Wednesday, December 9, 2020, 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 EDT William Sites in conversation with John Corbett

Elif Shafak with Ipek Burnett This is a virtual event which will be held on the Zoom platform. Click the link in the event description for info. Saturday, December 19, 2020, 12:00 p.m. (Noon-time) PST Elif Shafak reading and discussing her new novel 10 minutes 38 seconds in This Strange World published by Bloomsbury Books