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City Lights Readings and Events
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Our weekly reading series at the bookstore features new authors from across the publishing world. Across the nation, our authors are constantly on tour. Below are short listings for both events at the store, and authors on the road. For more information, click onto the event title.
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and then we became
devorah major
devorah major
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco Wednesday, November 16, 2016, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of her new book of poetry
and then we became
published by City Lights Books
Berkeley, CA: Morrison Library in Doe Library, UC Berkeley Campus
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Birth of a Dream Weaver
Ngugi Wa'Thiong'O
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco Monday, September 26, 2016, 7:00 p.m.
reading from and discussing his new book
Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer's Awakening
from The New Press
ZYZZYVA No. 107
ZYZZYVA Fall 2016 Issue Celebration
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco Tuesday, September 27, 2016, 7:00 p.m.
Hosted by Managing Editor Oscar Villalon.
Featuring contributors Christopher Adamson, Heather Altfeld, Ann Cummins, Lori Ostlund, and Austen Leah Rosenfeld
Staying with the Trouble
Donna J. Haraway
Donna J. Haraway
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco Wednesday, September 28, 2016, 7:00 p.m.
discussing the subject of her new book
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
from Duke University Press
Spooked
Nicholas Schou
HOT BOOKS Inaugural Party
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco Thursday, September 29, 2016, 7:00 p.m.
City Lights celebrates an exciting new publishing venture
Hosted by David Talbot
with Rebecca Gordon, Nicholas Schou, and Alexander Zaitchik
Buck Studies
Douglas Kearney
Douglas Kearney
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco Sunday, October 2, 2016, 5:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of
Buck Studies
from Fence Books
The Angel of History
Rabih Alameddine
Rabih Alameddine
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco Tuesday, October 4, 2016, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of
The Angel of History
from Atlantic Monthly Press
Shelter in Place
Alexander Maksik
Alexander Maksik
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco Wednesday, October 5, 2016, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of
Shelter in Place
from Europa Editions
Dwelling
Aliki Barnstone
The Barnstones @ City Lights
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco Thursday, October 6, 2016, 7:00 p.m.
A rare evening with the entire Barnstone clan: Aliki, Tony, and Willis. They will be reading excerpts from both new and old poetry and prose.
The Reactive
Masande Ntshanga
An evening with Masande Ntshanga
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco Wednesday, October 12, 2016, 6:00 p.m.
reading from his acclaimed new novel
The Reactive
from Two Dollar Radio
LitQuakes Barbary Coast Awards
Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness Ave. San Francisco, CA 94102
Thursday, October 13th, 8:00PM
honoring
Maxine Hong Kingston, Alejandro Murguía, Jewelle Gomez, Michael Krasny, City Lights' own Paul Yamazaki, Justin Chin, & more.
WORD/JAZZ with Chinaka Hodge & Friends
Doc's Lab, 124 Columbus Ave San Francisco, CA, 94133 (Admission: $20)
Fri, October 14, 2016 Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
with Chinaka Hodge, devorah major, RyanNicole and the Broun Fellinis
Breaking Through Power
Ralph Nader
Tuesday, October 18th, 7pm!!!
at City Lights Bookstore
celebrating the release of
Breaking Through Power: It's Easier Than We Think,
published by City Lights Books. Introduced by Matt Gonzalez.
Monday, September 26th - Thursday, September 29th
Washington DC: Carnegie Institution & Constitution Hall
A Spare Life
Lidija Dimkovska
An evening with Lidija Dimkovska
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco Wednesday, October 19, 2016, 7:00 p.m.
reading from her new novel
A Spare Life
published by Two Lines Press
Never Look an American in the Eye
Okey Ndibe
Okey Ndibe
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco Thursday, October 20, 2016, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of
Never Look An American In The Eye: A Memoir of Flying Turtles, Colonial Ghosts, and the Making of a Nigerian American
from Soho Press
23/7
Keramet Reiter
Keramet Reiter
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco Tuesday, October 25, 2016, 7:00 p.m.
discussing her new book
23/7: Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Long-Term Solitary Confinement
from Yale University Press
Co-sponsored by Uncommon Law
Lost Profiles
Philippe Soupault
Lost Profiles: A Parisian Dada Salon
San Francisco, CA: Mechanics' Institute Library Wednesday, November 9th, 6:00PM
Release Party for Lost Profiles: Memoirs of Cubism, Dada, and Surrealism, by Philippe Soupault, published by City Lights Books. With editor Garett Caples, translator and poet Alan Bernheimer
Dadaglobe Reconstructed
Tristan Tzara
Dada World Fair 2016
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco Tuesday, November 1 through Saturday, November 12, 2016
A 100th anniversary celebration of DADA
with film screenings, installations, lectures, roundtables, and performances
David Sax
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco Tuesday, November 15, 2016, 7:00 p.m.
discussing his new book
The Revenge of the Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter
from Public Affairs Books
and then we became
devorah major
devorah major
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco Wednesday, November 16, 2016, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of her new book of poetry
and then we became
published by City Lights Books
Mephistos and Other Poems
Michael McClure
Michael McClure
City Lights Thursday, November 17, 2016, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of his new collection of poetry
Mephistos and Other Poems
published by City Lights!
Wild Man: A Discussion of the Life and Death of Jack London (1876-1916)
Canessa Gallery, 708 Montgomery Street @ Washington,
San Francisco, CA 94111 Tuesday, November 22, 2016, 7:00 p.m.
with Jonah Raskin, Susan Nuernberg, Geoffrey Dunn and Tarnel Abbott, Jack London's great granddaughter
Eavan Boland with Ari Banias
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco Tuesday, November 29, 2016, 7:00 p.m.
Celebrating the release of two new books of poetry
both published by W.W. Norton
Freeman's 2
John Freeman
John Freeman
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco Wednesday, November 30, 2016, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of
Freeman's: Family: The Best New Writing on Family
published by Grove Press
Larry Bogad on Tactical Performance
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco Thursday, December 1, 2016, 7:00 p.m.
The Syracuse Codex
Jim Nisbet
Jim Nisbet
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco Tuesday, December 6, 2016, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the paperback release of
The Syracuse Codex
published by The Overlook Press
Rebecca Solnit
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco Wednesday, December 7, 2016, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of
Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas
from University of California Press
Sarah Jaffe
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco Wednesday, December 14, 2016, 7:00 p.m.
discussing her new book
Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt
from Public Affairs Books
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