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City Lights Publications In addition to our world-renowned bookstore, City Lights is a publishing company, offering 12-20 new titles each year and an extensive backlist of quality fiction and nonfiction titles. Founded by Lawrence Ferlinghetti in 1955, with nearly 200 books in print, City Lights publishes cutting-edge fiction, poetry, memoirs, literary translations and books on vital social and political issues. Here you'll find a selection of our most recent books and some we'd like to feature, and also a complete listing of our books, searchable by author and title. For more information on City Lights Publishers, see our Publisher's Home page.

<<< 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 >>>     sort list by author | publication date Haiti Glass Lenelle Moïse Winner of the 2015 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award: With rhythmic poetry and intimate prose, Haiti Glass offers an unflinching look at disaster, desire, and death-defying love. The Haunted House Rebecca Brown Rebecca Brown's novel explores how a woman’s life is affected by growing up in an alcoholic family. Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? Mumia Abu-Jamal "A must-read for anyone interested in social justice and inequalities, social movements, the criminal justice system, and African American history. An excellent companion to Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow and Ava DuVernay's documentary '13th'."—Library Journal, Starred Review Head Above Water Stefano Bortolussi Italian writer Cardo Maraini is a cauldron of contradictions. Plagued by guilt over the drowning of his younger brother, he is strangely terrified by life. When the Norwegian woman he loves becomes pregnant, he plunges into a comically disastrous... The Heart of Whiteness Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege Robert Jensen As devastating as the physical destruction brought by Katrina has been, it may turn out that one of the hurricane's most enduring legacies is the way it made visible the effect of racial and class disparities on who lived and who died, who escaped... The Heart's Desire A Novel Nahid Rachlin Jennifer Sahary, an American artist, and her husband Karim, a professor and Iranian immigrant, make an extended visit to Teheran shortly after the Iran-Iraq War, encountering unforeseen dangers and sexual temptations that change the course of their... Heaven and Other Poems Jack Kerouac Donald Allen, the late great editor of the Evergreen Review at Grove Press and editor of the seminal anthology, The New American Poetry, first met Jack Kerouac in 1956 when he and Allen Ginsberg came to visit at his West Village apartment... Heaven Is All Goodbyes Pocket Poets Series No. 61 Tongo Eisen-Martin "This is resistance as sound."—Claudia Rankine Hectic Ethics Francisco Hinojosa Unlike many Latin American writers whose work has been published in the United States, Francisco Hinojosa does not rely on magical realism, exotic recipes or cultural nostalgia. Rather, his stories convey a mercilessly sardonic view of family and... Hello, I'm Special How Individuality Became the New Conformity Hal Niedzviecki Hal Niedzviecki has a blunt message for the army of tattoo and piercing enthusiasts, bloggers, skateboard warriors, and anyone else walking around with the smug certainty that they are one of a kind: Individuality is the new conformity. Here Come the Warm Jets City Lights Spotlight No. 10 Alli Warren "Warren's first book of poems is highly self-reflective, interestingly interrogative, and a lot of fun."—Booklist The Historic Unfulfilled Promise Howard Zinn First-ever collection of Howard Zinn's articles from The Progressive (1980–2009) offer timeless analysis and advocacy for freedom, democracy, and social change in the United States. History as Mystery Michael Parenti Essays on how history's victors distort and suppress the documentary record in order to perpetuate their power and privilege, and how historians are influenced by the professional and class environment in which they work."Michael Parenti, always... Holy Ghost City Lights Spotlight No. 15 David Brazil Anarcho-socialism meets Christian mysticism in an Occupy veteran's avant-garde poems. <<< 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 >>>