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City Lights Readings and Events
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City Lights hosts weekly events with new authors from across the publishing world. With our store closed until further notice, we're finding new ways to adapt and move our events online. Click on the listings below to learn more, and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter for regular updates. And please consider supporting our events authors by buying their book from our Bookshop list.
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No Fascist USA!
Hilary Moore, James Tracy
James Tracy, Hilary Moore, and Walidah Imarisha
Event will be held virtually on the Crowdcast platform. Consult event listing for more info. Sunday, May 24, 2020, 1:00 p.m. PST
celebrating the release of
No Fascist USA! The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today's Movements
published by City Lights Books
Maurice Carlos Ruffin in conversation with Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
Will be held on Crowdcast. Click the link in the event description for info.
Tuesday, May 26, 2020, 6:00 p.m. PST
Maurice Carlos Ruffin reading from
We Cast A Shadow
published by One World
Frank Wilderson III in conversation with Justin Desmangles
Event will be held on Zoom. Click the link in the event description for info.
Thursday, May 28, 2020, 6:00 p.m. PST
discussing the subject of his new book
Afropessimism
published by Liveright Books / W.W. Norton
Robert Mailer Anderson & Friends
Event will be held on Zoom. Click the link in the event description for info.
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2020, 6:00 p.m. PST
celebrating his new graphic novel
Windows on the World
published by Fantagraphics Books
Co-authored with Zack Anderson and Jon Sack
Ali Araghi in conversation with Laleh Khadivi
Event will be held virtually on the Crowdcast platform. Consult event listing for more info.
Wednesday June 3, 2020, 6:00 p.m. PST
Ali Araghi celebrating his new novel
The Immortals of Tehran
published by Melville House
Jennifer Worley
Event will be held on Zoom. Click the link in the event description for info.
Tuesday, June 9, 2020, 6:00 p.m. PST
Book Release Party for
Neon Girls: A Stripper's Education in Protest and Power
from Harper Collins
Ainissa Ramirez
Will be held on Crowdcast. Click the link in the event description for info.
Tuesday, June 16, 2020, 6:00 p.m. PST
discussing the subject of her new book
The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
from The MIT Press
Greil Marcus
Event will be held virtually on the Crowdcast platform. Consult event listing for more info.
Thursday, June 18, 2020, 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST
discussing the subject of his new book
Under the Red White and Blue: Patriotism, Disenchantment and the Stubborn Myth of the Great Gatsby
published by Yale University Press
Cynthia Kaufman
Event will be held on Zoom. Click the link in the event description for info.
Wednesday, June 24, 2020, 6:00 p.m. PST
discussing the subject of her new book
Challenging Power: Democracy and Accountability in a Fractured World
published by Bloomsbury Books
John Freeman with DA Powell
Event will be held on Zoom. Click the link in the event description for info.
Thursday, June 25, 2020, 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST
John Freeman celebrates the release of his new collection of poetry
The Park
published by Copper Canyon Press
Ben Ehrenreich
Will be held on Crowdcast. Click the link in the event description for info.
Tuesday, July 7, 2020, 6:00 PST
celebrating his new book
Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time
from Counterpoint Press
Leslie Kern
Event will be held virtually on the Crowdcast platform. Consult event listing for more info.
Thursday, July 9, 2020, 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST
discussing the subject of her new book
Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World
from Verso Books
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