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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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Fall 2017 Events
City Lights will take a break from events
from July 1st until September 6th when the calendar
will resume again
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John Nichols
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, September 6, 2017, 7:00 p.m.
discussing
Horsemen of the Trumpocalypse: A Field Guide to the Most Dangerous People in America
from Nation Books
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Ellen Ullman
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, September 7, 2017, 7:00 p.m.
discussing her new book
Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology
published by MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Jarett Kobek presents
Location: Undisclosed, Admission: Free, Invitations available via City Lights beginning on 8/28/17
Monday, September 11, 2017, 7:00 p.m.
The Soft & Cuddly Medicine Show
a live action game at an undisclosed location
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Ryan Gattis
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, September 12, 2017, 7:00 p.m.
reading from his new novel
Safe
published by MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Daniel Kane
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, September 13, 2017, 7:00 p.m.
discussing his new book
"Do You Have a Band?": Poetry and Punk Rock in New York City
from Columbia University Press
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Tongo Eisen-Martin
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco Thursday, September 14th, 2017, 8:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of
Number 61 in the Pocket Poets Series
Heaven Is All Goodbyes published by City Lights Books.
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Once and Future Planet: Plants, Water, and People.
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Sunday, September 17, 2017, 5:00 p.m.
with Red Hen Press authors Florencia Ramirez, Pope Brock, and Karen Gettert Shoemaker
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Karen Tei Yamashita
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, September 19, 2017, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of her new book
Letters to Memory
from Coffee House Press
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Brontez Purnell
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, September 20, 2017, 7:00 p.m.
author of
Since I Laid My Burden Down: An uninhibited exploration of growing up gay in 1980s Alabama
from Feminist Press
with a special appearance by The Younger Lovers
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Francis Ford Coppola
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, September 21, 2017, 7:00 p.m.
a reception and signing celebrating the release of
Live Cinema and Its Techniques
by Francis Ford Coppola
published by Liveright Publishing
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Matthew Zapruder
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, September 26, 2017, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of
Why Poetry
from Ecco Press
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Josh Weil
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, September 27, 2017, 7:00 p.m.
reading from his new novel
The Age of Perpetual Light
from Grove Press
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Zoe Quinn
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, September 28, 2017, 7:00 p.m.
discussing
Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate
from Public Affairs Books
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Scott Esposito in conversation with Micheline Aharonian Marcom
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Sunday, October 1, 2017, 5:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of
The Doubles
by Scott Esposito
published by Civil Coping Mechanisms
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Nathaniel Tarn
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, 261 Columbus Ave. San Francisco, CA
Tuesday, October 3, 2017, 7:00 p.m.
reading from his new collection of poetry
Gondwana
from New Directions Publishing
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Adam Greenfield
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco, CA
Wednesday October 4th, 2017, 7:00 p.m.
discussing the subject of his new book
Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life
from Verso Books
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Juan González in conversation with John Avalos
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, CA, Admission is Free
Thursday, October 5, 2017, 7:00 p.m.
Presented by City Lights in conjunction with Renaissance Journalism and The New Press
Reclaiming Gotham: Bill de Blasio and the Movement to End America's Tale of Two Cities
from The New Press
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The Infinite Man: A Celebration of Pablo Neruda
Swedish American Hall, 2174 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94114 Monday, October 9, 2017, 7:00PM
Litquake and City Lights present on the occasion of LITQUAKE 2017
"Infinite Man: A Pablo Neruda Celebration"
with Mark Eisner, Jessica Powell, Forrest Gande
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LOGIC Magazine Release Party-TECH IN THE AGE OF TRUMP
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, October 12, 2017, 7:00 p.m.
Litquake and City Lights present on the occasion of LITQUAKE 2017
A LOGIC MAGAZINE Release Party: TECH IN THE AGE OF TRUMP
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Jessica Bruder
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Sunday, October 15, 2017, 5:00 p.m.
discussing the subject of her new book
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
published by W.W. Norton
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Eileen Myles
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Monday, October 16, 2017, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of
Afterglow (a dog memoir)
from Grove Press
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Barry Gifford
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, October 24, 2017, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of
The Cuban Club: Stories
from Seven Stories Press
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Chris Robé
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Sunday, October 29, 2017, 5:00 p.m.
discussing his newly released book
Breaking the Spell: A History of Anarchist Filmmakers, Videotape Guerrillas, and Digital Ninjas
from PM Press
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Cristina García
City Light Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, November 1, 2017, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of
Here In Berlin: A Novel
from Counterpoint Press
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Barbara Jane Reyes
City Lights Booksellers, San Francisco Tuesday, November 7th 2017, 7:00PM
celebrating the release of
City Lights Spotlight Series No. 16, Invocation To Daughters.
Reading together with David Brazil.
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Yuri Slezkine
Mechanics' Institute Library, 57 Post St San Francisco, CA 94104, Admission $10.00, Members Free
Wednesday, November 8, 2017, 6:00 p.m.
discussing his new book
The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution
from Princeton University Press
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Who Reads Poetry? Views from Poetry Magazine
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, November 9, 2017, 7:00 p.m.
with Don Share, editor of Poetry Magazine, and Fred Sasaki, Poetry's art director joined by friends
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Jerome Rothenberg
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Monday, November 13, 2017, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of
Technicians of the Sacred, Third Edition: A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania, Revised and Expanded, 50th Anniversary
published by University of California
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Daniel Alarcón
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, November 15, 2017, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of
The King Is Always Above the People: Stories
published by Riverhead Books
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Mark Bray
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, November 16, 2017, 7:30 p.m.
discussing the subject of his new book
Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook
from Melville House
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George Lakey
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, 261 Columbus Ave. San Francisco, CA 94133
Sunday, November 19, 2017, 5:00 p.m.
presenting a talk titled
A NATION DIVIDED: What can we learn from the Nordics?
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A.J. Lees on William S. Burroughs
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, November 28, 2017, 7:00 p.m.
discussing his newly released book
Mentored By A Madman: The William Burroughs Experiment
published by Notting Hill Editions, distributed by New York Review Books
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Brian "B+" Cross
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, November 30, 2017, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of
Ghostnotes: Music of the Unplayed
published by Univerity of Texas Press
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Danielle Allen
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Monday, December 4, 2017, 7:00 p.m.
discussing her new book
Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A.
from Liveright Books ( a division of W.W. Norton)
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David Harvey
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, December 6, 2017, 7:00 p.m.
discussing the subject of his new book
Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason
from Oxford University Press
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Sam Sax & D.A. Powell
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, December 7, 2017, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of Sam Sax's new poetry collection
MADNESS
published by Penguin Books
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Ithuriel's Spear @ City Lights
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, 261 Columbus Ave. San Francisco, CA 94133
Sunday, December 10, 2017, 5:00 p.m.
with new releases from
Hilton Obenzinger and Tony Robles (poetry), and Richard Schwarzenberger (short stories) and special guest appearance by Sin Sorocco
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Eugenio F. Granell Tribute
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, December 12, 2017, 7:00 p.m.
with David Coulter and Garett Caples
celebrating the release of
The Novel of the Tupinamba Indian
by Eugenio F. Granell
published by City Lights Books
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Michael Hardt in conversation with Joshua Clover
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, December 14, 2017, 7:00 p.m.
discussing the subject of Michael Hardt's new book
Assembly
Co-authored with Antonio Negri
from Oxford University Press
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