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City Lights Publications
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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.
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I Must Resist
Bayard Rustin's Life in Letters
Bayard Rustin, Julian Bond, Michael G Long
Hot off the press: Bayard Rustin's life story told in his own words through his intimate correspondence, published on the centennial of his birth.
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Crusade 2.0
The West's Resurgent War on Islam
John Feffer
Why anti-Muslim sentiment is on the rise in the U.S. and Europe, and what can be done to stop it.
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Making the Future
Occupations, Interventions, Empire and Resistance
Noam Chomsky
Short, forceful commentaries on U.S. politics, from the economic crisis to Obama's strategies in Afghanistan and around the world.
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Redefining Black Power
Reflections on the State of Black America
Joanne Griffith
Conversations with black leaders and activists exploring current African American political and cultural life.
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Dear White America
Letter to a New Minority
Tim Wise
Just out: Wise addresses whites' anxiety about cultural shifts displacing their power and privilege, and offers ideas on how to move forward.
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Citizen
Aaron Shurin
In Citizen, Shurin has collected vibrant new poems that are, by turns, romantic, visceral, edgy, and unabashedly beautiful.
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At Sea
A Poem for Pablo Neruda
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
EXCLUSIVELY AVAILABLE AT CITY LIGHTS!
Exquisite handmade letterpress edition of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's new poem, "At Sea".
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Los Angeles Stories
Ry Cooder
Available Now: World-famous musician Ry Cooder publishes his first collection of stories.
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Ether
Ben Ehrenreich
An Earth-bound god whose powers are reduced to petty acts of destruction attempts to reclaim his lost seat in the heavens.
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Paper Conspiracies
Susan Daitch
The keys to a historic trap are discovered in a cache of forgeries and crumbling film stock.
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Waifs and Strays
Micah Ballard
From the bayous of Louisiana to the pavements of San Francisco, Micah Ballard rounds up his haunting waifs and strays.
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More Notes of a Dirty Old Man
The Uncollected Columns
Charles Bukowski, David Stephen Calonne
Sequel to his most famous book, "More Notes of a Dirty Old Man" features rare Bukowski columns unseen in decades.
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Mushrooms, Myth & Mithras
The Drug Cult that Civilized Europe
Carl Ruck, Mark Alwin Hoffman, José Alfredo González Celdrán
A fascinating tour of the mushroom-centered mystery religions which have profoundly influenced Western civilization
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When I Was a Poet
Pocket Poets Number 60
David Meltzer
An autobiographical masterpiece by a prominent Beat poet, who Ferlinghetti has deemed "one of the greats."
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