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.

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
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An evening with Terry Castle City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco Tuesday, February 9, 2010, 7:30 P.M. celebrating the release of The Professor and Other Writings published by HarperCollins		Eileen Myles and Maggie Nelson City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco Wednesday, February 10, 2010, 7:00 P.M. EVENT CANCELLED

Jaron Lanier City Lights Bookstore Tuesday, February 16, 2010, 7:00 P.M. celebrating the release of You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto published by Knopf		Ash Wednesday with Annie La Ganga and Bill Cotter City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco Wednesday, February 17, 2010, 7:00 P.M. special guest appearance by Dave Eggers

An evening with Danielle Ofri City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco Tuesday, February 23, 2010, 7:00 P.M. discussing the subject of her new book Medicine in Translation: Journeys with My Patients published by Beacon Press		Elif Batuman City Lights Bookstore Wednesday, February 24, 2010, 7:00 P.M. celebrating the release of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the people who read them published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Tony Dushane City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 7:00 P.M. reading from Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk published by Soft Skull Press		Sharon Dubiago City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 7:00 P.M. reading from My Father's Love, Portrait of the Poet as a Young Girl from Wild Ocean Press

Thursday, March 11, 2010, 7:00 P.M. City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco discussing Shoot An Iraqi: Art, Life and Resistance Under the Gun published by City Lights Books		Dennis Cooper, Mark Gluth, and James Greer City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco Tuesday, March 16, 2010, 7:00 P.M. celebrating the Little House On The Bowery Series published by Akashic Books

New Lit Gen: READ IT, WRITE IT, TEACH IT City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco Thursday, March 18, 2010, 7:00 P.M. Small Press Distribution & City Lights celebrate Small Press Month		Culture Is Our Weapon: Making Music & Changing Lives in Rio De Janerio City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 7:00 P.M. with Damian Platt, Jessica Galeria, and Jeffrey Duncan-Andrade

Sam Lipsyte @ Tosca Cafe Tosca Cafe, 242 Columbus Ave., San Francisco Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 7:30 P.M. a wine and cheese reception for The Ask: a novel published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux		Peter Nathaniel Malae City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco Thursday, March 25, 2010, 7:00 P.M. reading from What We Are published by Grove Press

Subterranean SF: Harboiled Fiction with an Edge Undisclosed Location Thursday, April 1, 2010, 7:30 P.M. with Domenic Stansberry and Kelli Stanley hosted by Peter Maravelis		Tuesday, April 6, 2010, 7:00 P.M. City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco

Stephen Kessler & Suzanne Jill Levine City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco Thursday, April 8, 2010, 7:00 P.M. celebrating the work of Jorge Luis Borges		Daniel Alarcón City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco Tuesday, April 13, 2010, 7:00 P.M. discussing THE SECRET MIRACLE: The Novelist's Handbook published by Henry Holt

Jim Nisbet City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco Thursday, April 15, 2010, 7:00 P.M. celebrating the release of Windward Passage published by Overlook Press		An evening with Richard O. Moore (introduced by Brenda Hillman) Tuesday, April 20, 2010, 7:00 P.M. celebrating the release of Writing The Silences published by University of California Press

Mark Danner City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco Thursday, April 22, 2010, 7:00 P.M. discussing Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War published by Nation Books		Left Curve Journal Release Party City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco Thursday, April 29, 2010, 7:00 P.M. oin editor Csaba Polony, Poet Laureate Jack Hirschman, and several contributors for an evening of readings

Kate Durbin, Cara Benson, and Sarah Louise Green City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco Tuesday, May 11, 2010, 7:00 P.M. celebrating Chris Abani's Black Goat Poetry Series from Akashic Books		What's In A Name: Meditations Upon the New Testament City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco Thursday, May 13, 2010, 7:00 P.M. with Willis Barnstone & Don Lattin

Celebration for Charles Bukowski's Absence of the Hero City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco Wednesday, May 19, 2010, 7:00 P.M. David Calonne & friends discuss the work of Charles Bukowski		Maile Chapman and Tiphanie Yanique City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco Thursday, May 20, 2010, 7:00 P.M. reading from their new works of fiction published by Graywolf Press

Andrew Joron City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco Wednesday, June 16, 2010, 7:00 P.M. reading from Trance Archive:New and Selected Poems published by City Lights