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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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