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City Lights Readings and Events
City Lights Events are sponsored by the City Lights Foundation
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City Lights hosts weekly events with authors from across the publishing world. Though we may once again be open for business, due to health restrictions and social distancing, we are unable to bring together groupings of people inside the store. As a result, we've moved our events online. Click on the listings below to learn more about our virtual calendar, and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter for regular updates.
We hope to someday resume our live calendar when conditions allow.
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reVisions: Decoding Technological Bias
This is a festival of virtual events and workshops. Consult links to attend.
June 10-18, 2021
Join City Lights, the Goethe-Institut San Francisco, and Gray Area for reVisions, a week-long festival exploring how technological bias shapes our cultural realities.
Culture Strike
Laura Raicovich
Laura Raicovich in conversation with Malkia Devich-Cyril
This is a virtual event which will be held on the Zoom platform. Click the link in the event description for info. Thursday, June 17, 2021, 6:00 p.m. PT / 8:00 p.m. ET
discussing her new book
CULTURE STRIKE: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest
published by Verso Books
Black Ocean @ City Lights
This is a virtual event which will be held on the Zoom platform. Click the link in the event description for info.
Sunday, June 20, 2021, 3:00 p.m. PT / 6:00 p.m. ET
with Carrie Olivia Adams, Hedgie Choi, Nathan Hoks, and Zachary Schomburg
Benjamin Hedin in conversation with James Wood
This is a virtual event which will be held on the Zoom platform. Click the link in the event description for info.
Tuesday, June 22, 2021, 6:00 p.m. PT / 9:00 p.m. ET
celebrating Ben Hedin's new novel
Under The Spell
published by Northwestern University Press
Doug Henderson in conversation with K.M. Soehnlein
This is a virtual event which will be held on the Zoom platform. Click the link in the event description for info.
Thursday, June 24, 2021, 6:00 p.m. Pacific / 9:00 p.m. Eastern
discussing
The Cleveland Heights LGBTQ Sci-Fi and Fantasy Role Playing Club
published by University of Iowa Press
Honey Mine
Camille Roy
Camille Roy in conversation with Eileen Myles
Event will be held on Zoom. Click the link in the event description for info. Tuesday, June 29, 2021, 6:00 p.m. PT / 9:00 p.m. ET
celebrating the book release of Camille Roy's new short fiction collection
Honey Mine
published by Nightboat Books
Kate Zambreno in conversation with T Fleischmann
This is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform.
Wednesday, June 30, 2021, 6:00 pm PST / 9:00 p.m. EDT
discussing
To Write as if Already Dead
published by Columbia University Press
Dana Spiotta in conversation with Mona Awad
This is a virtual event which will be held on the Zoom platform. Click the link in the event description for info.
Thursday, July 8, 2021, 6:00 p.m. PT / 9:00 p.m. ET
reading from her new novel
Wayward
published by Alfred Knopf
Joel Harrison with Henry Kaiser and Nels Cline
This is a virtual event to be held on the Crowdcast platform. Click the link in the event listing for info.
Wednesday, July 14, 6:00 p.m. Pacific / 9:00 p.m. Eastern
celebrating the book launch for
Guitar Talk: Conversations with Visionary Players
from Terra Nova Press/The MIT Press
Matt Bell with Cecil Castellucci and Brian Evenson
Event will be held on Zoom. Click the link in the event description for info.
Thursday, July 15, 2021, 6:00 p.m. PT / 9:00 p.m. ET
celebrating the launch of Matt Bell's new novel
Appleseed: a novel
published by Harper Collins
LOGIC MAGAZINE: FREER FUTURES
This is a virtual event which will be held on the Zoom platform. Click the link in the event description for info.
Saturday, July 17, 2021, 1:00 p.m. PT / 4:00 p.m. ET
Omar El Akkad in conversaton with Tim O'Connell
This is a virtual event which will be held on the Zoom platform. Click the link in the event description for info.
Tuesday, July 27, 2021, 6:00 p.m. PT / 9:00 p.m. ET
reading from his new novel
What Strange Paradise
published by Alfred Knopf
Matthew Specktor in conversation with Adam Pfahler
This is a virtual event which will be held on the Zoom platform. Click the link in the event description for info.
Wednesday, July 28, 2021, 6:00 p.m. PT / 9:00 ET
discussing
Always Crashing in the Same Car: On Art, Crisis, and Los Angeles, California
published by Tin House
Rupa Marya and Raj Patel
This is a virtual event which will be held on the Zoom platform. Click the link in the event description for info.
Tuesday, August 3, 2021, 6:00 p.m. PT / 9:00 p.m. ET
celebrating the launch of their new book
Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice
published by Farrar Strauss Giroux
Brian Evenson in conversation with Sarah Rose Etter
This is a virtual event which will be held on the Zoom platform. Click the link in the event description for info.
Wednesday, August 4, 2021, 6:00 p.m. PT / 9:00 p.m. ET
reading from
The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell
published by Coffee House Press
Marc Ribot in conversation with Elliott Sharp
This is a virtual event which will be held on the Zoom platform. Click the link in the event description for info.
Saturday August 7, 2021, 12:00 p.m. Pacific , 3:00 p.m. Eastern
celebrating the launch of Mark Ribot's new book
Unstrung: Rants and Stories of a Noise Guitarist
published by Akashic Books
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
This is a virtual event which will be held on the Zoom platform. Click the link in the event description for info.
Tuesday, August 10, 2021, 6:00 pm PT / 9:00 p.m. ET
reading from
American Estrangement
published by W.W. Norton
Benjamin Gucciardi with Eduardo C. Corral
This is a virtual event which will be held on the Zoom platform. Click the link in the event description for info.
Wednesday, August 11, 2021, 6:00 pm PT / 9:00 p.m. ET
Launch Party for Benjamin Gucciardi's new poetry collection
West Portal
published by University of Utah Press
Jaime Cortez in conversation with Rebecca Solnit
This is a virtual event which will be held on the Zoom platform. Click the link in the event description for info.
Tuesday, August 17, 2021, 6:00 p.m. PT / 9:00 p.m. ET
celebrating Jaime Cortez's debut short fiction collection
Gordo
published by Grove Atlantic
Maurice Carlos Ruffin
This is a virtual event which will be held on the Zoom platform. Click the link in the event description for info.
Thursday, August 19, 2021, 6:00 p.m. PT / 9:00 p.m. ET
reading from
The Ones Who Don't Say They Love You: Stories
published by One World
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz in conversation with Alejandro Murguía
This is a virtual event which will be held on the Zoom platform. Click the link in the event description for info.
Tuesday, August 24, 2021, 6:00 p.m. PT / 9:00 p.m. ET
discussing Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's
Not A Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion
published by Beacon Press
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