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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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Maxine Gordon on the life and legacy of Jazz legend Dexter Gordon
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, February 26, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of
Sophisticated Giant:The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon
published by University of California Press
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Lloyd Kahn
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, February 27, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of his new book:
Driftwood Shacks: Anonymous Architecture Along the California Coast
from Shelter Publications
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LOGIC Turns Two
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, March 5, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
Host: Jim Fingal, with special guests Megan Rose Dickey, Alexis C. Madrigal, Fred Turner, Ellen Ullman, and Julia Carrie Wong
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Irvine Welsh in conversation with Alan Black
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, March 6, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of
Dead Men's Trousers
by Irvine Welsh
published by Melville House
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Carolyn Burke in conversation with Oscar Villalon
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, March 7, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating her new book
Foursome:Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Strand, Rebecca Salsbury
published by Alfred Knopf
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Nina Revoyr
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, March 12, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
reading from her latest novel
A Student of History
from Akashic Books
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Ali Liebegott with special guests: Dodie Bellamy and Kevin Killian
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, March 13, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
reading from
The Summer of Dead Birds
published by Feminist Press
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Sally Wen Mao
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, March 14, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
reading and in conversation with Jennifer S. Cheng
celebrating the release of
Oculus: Poems
published by Graywolf Press
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Ferlinghetti at 100 / SFPL Reading celebrating Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Birthday
Koret Auditorium, Main Branch, San Francisco Public Library, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco
Sunday, March 17, 2019, 1:00 p.m.
In honor of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's 100th birthday the San Francisco Public Library will celebrate with a poetry extravaganza
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Ferlinghetti at 100/ Book Release Party for LITTLE BOY
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, March 21, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti's new novel is celebrated with readings from selected passages
with appearances by Maxine Hong Kingston, Michael Krasny, Armistead Maupin, Joyce Carol Oates, Julien Poirier, Andrew Sean Greer, and Shobha Rao
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Ferlinghetti at 100 / Film Screening of Chris Felver's "FERLINGHETTI"
Roxie Theater, 3117 16th Street, San Francisco, tickets at: www.roxie.com
Saturday, March 23, 2019, 1:30 p.m.
Chris Felver's moving portrait of Lawrence Ferlinghetti followed by an interview with the filmmaker
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Ferlinghetti at 100 / Open House Birthday Party
City Lights Booksellers, Cafe Zoetrope, Vesuvio Cafe, Canessa Gallery
Sunday, March 24th, 1:00PM - 5:00PM
Join us in celebrating Lawrence Ferlinghetti's 100th Birthday
with a day of readings, reminiscences and joy at City Lights,
along with neighborhood events at the Canessa Gallery, Vesuvio's, and Café Zoetrope.
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Ferlinghetti at 100 / The People v. Ferlinghetti : The Fight to Publish Allen Ginsberg's Howl
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, March 26, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
with Ronald K. L. Collins and David M. Skover
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Ruby Ray
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, March 28, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of
Ruby Ray: Kalifornia Kool / Photographs 1976-1982
published by Trapart
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Unnamed Press @ City Lights with Rheea Mukherjee & Adam Nemett
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, April 2, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
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Lynn Breedlove
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, April 3, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
reading from their new book
45 Thought Crimes
from Manic D Press
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Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Monday Apri 8 2019, 7:00 p.m.
Please join us as the team from Creative Chaos films this event for their upcoming documentary about gun culture in the United States! Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz will discuss her acclaimed book Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment.
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, April 10, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
reading from
Minutes of Glory and Other Stories
published by The New Press
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Timothy Hampton
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, April 11, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
discussing
Bob Dylan's Poetics: How the Songs Work
from Zone Books
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Oliver Nachtwey in conversation with Adrian Daub
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, April 17, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
discussing the subject of Oliver Nachtwey's new book
Germany's Hidden Crisis
from Verso Books
copresented with the Goethe Institut
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Damon Krukowski
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, April 18, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
discussing the subject of his new book
Ways of Hearing
published by MIT Press
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Darius James
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Sunday, April 21, 2019, 5:00 p.m.
celebrating the eagerly awaited re-release of his seminal novel
Negrophobia: An Urban Parable
published by New York Review Books
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Ed Bok Lee
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, April 24, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
reading from
Mitochondrial Night: Poems
from Coffee House Press
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Neda Atanasoski in conversation with Kalindi Vora
City Light Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, April 25, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
discussing the subject of their new book
Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures
published by Duke University Press
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Grace Schulman
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Monday, April 29, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
discussing the subject of her book
Strange Paradise: Portrait of a Marriage
published by Turtle Point Press
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Foucault in California
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, April 30, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
Heather Dundas in conversation with David Wade
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Chia-Chia Lin
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, May 7, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of her new novel
The Unpassing
published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Andrew Ross
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, May 8, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
discussing the subject of his new book
Stone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel
published by Verso Books
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Jo Lendle
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Sunday, May 12, 2019, 5:00 p.m.
reading from and speaking about
All the Land
published by Seagull Books
copresented by Goethe Institut San Francisco
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Saskia Vogel
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, May 15, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of her new novel
Permission
published by Coach House Books
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Namwali Serpell in conversation with Ismail Muhammad
City Lights Bookseller, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, May 16, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
reading from and discussing her new novel
The Old Drift
from Hogarth Books
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Max Porter
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, May 21, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of
Lanny: a novel
from Graywolf Press
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Finn Brunton
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, June 4, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
discussing the subject of his new book
Digital Cash: The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency
from Princeton University Press
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Allan Peterson
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, June 11, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
reading poetry from
This Luminous: New and Selected Poems
from Panhandler Books
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Erik Davis
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, June 13, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
discussing the subject of his new book
High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies
from MIT Press
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Punk Rock Is Cool for the End of the World: Poems and Notebooks of Ed Smith
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, June 19, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
with David Trinidad, Amy Gerstler, D.A. Powell, Kevin Killian, Dodie Bellamy, Randall Mann, and Roberto Bedoya
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Louise Aronson
City Light Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, June 26, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
discussing the subject of her new book
Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life
from Bloomsbury Books
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Elliot Sharp
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, June 27, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of
IrRational Music
from Terra Nova Books
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