City Lights is a landmark general bookstore, internationally known for our expert selection of titles and our commitment to free intellectual inquiry.
Founded in 1953 as the nation’s first all-paperback bookstore, we now offer both hardcovers and paperbacks from all of the major publishing houses, along with an impressive range of titles from smaller, specialty publishers. Our shop features an extensive selection of poetry, fiction, translations, politics, history, philosophy, music, spirituality, and more, with a staff whose special interests in many fields contribute to the hand-picked quality of what you see on the shelves.
Events
Saturday, April 27, 2024, 11:00 am PST
Voluptuous Life: A Tribute to the Life and Work of Mel Gordon
City Lights, Morbid Anatomy, and Strange Attractor Press present an afternoon in appreciation of the life and work of Mel Gordon - Moderated by Joanna Ebenstein and Peter Maravelis with Maer Ben-Yisreal, Russell Blackwood, Ati Citron, J. Hoberman, Allison Lovejoy, La Pustra, Mark Pilkington, Jill Tracy, and Christina Ward - In celebration of the posthumous publication of Cabarets of Death: Death, Dance and Dining in Early Twentieth-Century Paris - by Mel Gordon - Edited by Joanna Ebenstein - Published by Strange Attractor Press - Use this link to access the event: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87483690070
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Staff Picks
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Five Little Indians
Michelle Good $18.50 Add to cart -
Motor Spirit: The Long Hunt for the Zodiac
Jarett Kobek $22.50 Add to cart -
How to Find Zodiac
Jarett Kobek $22.50 Add to cart -
Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
Patricia Evangelista $30.00 Add to cart -
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir
Sly Stone $30.00 Add to cart -
A Daydreamy Child Takes a Walk
Gianni Rodari $18.95 Add to cart -
The MANIAC
Benjamin Labatut $28.00 Add to cart -
Economy of the Unlost: (reading Simonides of Keos with Paul Celan) (Revised)
Anne Carson $35.00 Add to cart -
American Prometheus: The Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture Oppenheimer
Kai Bird $25.00 Add to cart -
Forbidden Notebook
Alba de Céspedes $26.00 Add to cart
Featured Titles
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The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx $22.00 Add to cart -
Tropic of Capricorn
Henry Miller $16.00 Add to cart -
July’s People
Nadine Gordimer $17.00 Add to cart -
Into the Beautiful North
Luis Alberto Urrea $16.99 Add to cart -
In the Night Kitchen: A Caldecott Honor Award Winner (Anniversary)
Maurice Sendak $18.95 Add to cart -
Goethe’s Faust
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe $15.00 Add to cart -
Love in the Time of Cholera: Introduction by Nicholas Shakespeare
Gabriel Garcia Marquez $28.00 Add to cart -
The Flowers of Evil: (Les Fleurs Du Mal)
Charles Baudelaire $16.95 Add to cart -
Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Anniversary)
Walt Whitman $18.00 Add to cart -
Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale
Herman Melville $16.00 Add to cart