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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. 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 Events 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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 Check out our new podcast series, "Live From City Lights"-- broadcasting events, interviews, and reviews from City Lights Books & Publishers.
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Vikram Chandra
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco
Thursday, September 4, 2014, 7:00 P.M.
discussing
Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, The Code of Beauty
from Graywolf Press
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Book Party for Thousand Times Broken
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books Wednesday, September 10th, 2014, 7:00pm
Celebrating the release of
Thousand Times Broken: Three Books
by Henri Michaux, translated from the French by Gilian Conoley.
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Book Party for Lenelle Moïse
City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco Tuesday, September 16, 2014, 7:00 P.M.
celebrating the release of
Haiti Glass
by Lenelle Moïse
The latest poetry collection in the City Lights/Sister Spit series, edited by Michelle Tea!
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Laila Lalami
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco Wednesday, September 17, 2014, 7:00 P.M.
reading from
The Moor's Account
from Pantheon Books
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An evening with Scholastique Mukasonga
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco Thursday, September 18, 2014, 7:00 P.M.
with opening statements by Jill Schoolman (Archipelago Press)
celebrating the release of
Our Lady of the Nile
translated by Melanie Mauthner
published by Archipelago Press
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Nayomi Munaweera
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco
Monday, September 22, 2014, 7:00 P.M.
reading from
Island of a Thousand Mirrors
from St. Martin's Press
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MariNaomi
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco
Wednesday, September 24, 2014, 7:00 P.M.
celebrating the release of
Dragon's Breath and Other True Stories'
published jointly by 2D Cloud and Uncivilized Books
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An evening with Roxane Gay
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco
Thursday, September 25, 2014, 7:00 P.M.
discussing her new book
The Bad Feminist
from Harper Perennial
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Wave Books Party!
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco
Tuesday, September 30, 2014, 7:00 P.M
Hosted by Matthew Zapruder with Garrett Caples, Anthony McCann, Hoa Nguyen, Cedar Sigo, & Rachel Zucker
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Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco
Wednesday, October 1, 2014, 7:00 P.M.
discussing her new book
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
from Beacon Press
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Richard Kenvin on Surf Craft
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco
Tuesday, October 7, 2014, 7:00 P.M.
celebrating the release of the new book
Surf Craft: Design and the Culture of Board Riding
from The MIT Press
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Book Party for Mylene Fernández-Pintado
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco
Wednesday, October 8. 2014, 7:00 P.M.
celebrating the release of
A Corner of the World
Translated by Dick Cluster
Published by City Lights Publishers
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Book Party for Thomas Page McBee
City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco Thursday, October 9th, 2014, 7:00pm
Celebrating the release of
Man Alive by Thomas Page McBee
The latest memoir in the City Lights/Sister Spit series, edited by Michelle Tea.
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James Lenfestey
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco
Monday, October 20, 2014, 7:00 P.M.
reading from
Seeking the Cave
A Pilgrimage To Cold Mountain
from Milkweed Editions
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Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco
Tuesday, October 21, 2014, 7:00P.M.
Hosted by Jennifer De Leon
with Yalitza Ferreras, Erika Martinez, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Blanca Torres
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Baffler Party !!!!!!!
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco
Wednesday, October 22, 2014, 7:00 P.M.
with Tom Frank and John Summers
celebrating the release of
No Future For You: Salvos from The Baffler
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Haunted Reflections: Walter Benjamin in San Francisco
Various Locations, San Francisco
Wednesday, November 5 through Sunday, November 9, 2014
A week-long celebration of the life and work of one of the twentieth centuries great thinkers
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Subterranean SF Reading Series presents...Katie Gilmartin's "Blackmail, My Love"
Thursday, November 13, 2014, 8:00 P.M., Location: Undisclosed (by invite only)
An evening of storytelling delving into the darker side of San Francisco's 1950's Queer Underground
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