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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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The Event Season continues in September 2018......
City Lights will take a break from events for the months of July and August. We will resume events in September.
Ingrid Rojas Contreras
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, Sept 5, 2018, 7pm
celebrating the release of her debut novel
Fruit of the Drunken Tree
from Random House
Vanessa Hua
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, Sept 6, 2018, 7pm
celebrating the release of
A River of Stars
published by Ballentine Books
R.O. Kwon
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, Sept 11, 2018, 7pm
celebrating the release of
The Incendiaries
from Riverhead Books
The Situationists and May 1968: An Evening with Ken Knabb
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, Sept 13, 2018, 7pm
A discussion exploring the situationists' key influence on the nationwide May 1968 revolt in France
Margaret Randall
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, Sept 18, 2018, 7pm
celebrating the release of
Time's Language: Collected Poems
from Wings Press
Peter Phillips
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
discussing the subject of his new book
Giants: The Global Power Elite
By Peter Phillips
Introduction by William I. Robinson
published by Seven Stories Press
Forrest Gander in conversation with Jonathan Santlofer (moderated by Susan Steinberg)
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018, 7pm
celebrating two new books:
Be With - by Forrest Gander - from New Directions
Widows Notebook - by Jonathan Santlofer - from Penguin
Eileen Truax in conversation with Lauren Markham (moderated by Ian Gordon)
Mechanics' Institute Library, 57 Post Street, San Francisco, CA 94104 (Admission : Public $10.00, Members FREE
Tuesday, September 25, 6:30 pm
discussing the subject of
We Build the Wall: How the US Keeps Out Asylum Seekers from Mexico, Central America and Beyond
by Eileen Truax
(from Verso Books)
Preti Taneja
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2018, 7 pm
reading from her new debut novel
We That Are Young
published by Alfred Knopf
Léonora Miano
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018, 7 p.m
City Lights in conjunction with the Cultural Services of the Consul General of France in San Francisco and Seagull Press present
Léonora Miano
in a special appearance
Voices of Witness @ City Lights
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, October 9, 2018, 7 pm
celebrating the release of
Six By Ten: Stories From Solitary Confinement
published by Haymarket Books
John Freeman in conversation with Rebecca Solnit
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018, 7:30 pm
celebrating the release of
Freeman's Literary Journal: POWER Issue
published by Grove Press
This event cosponsored by LITQUAKE
In Situ: Guy Debord, Raoul Vaneigem, and the Situationist Moment
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, October 24, 2018, 7 pm
with Donald Nicholson Smith with Anselm Jappe
Toward a Calculus of Transgression: Appreciating Jean Patrick-Manchette
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Sunday, October 28, 2018, 5:00 pm
Donald Nicholson-Smith and James Brook discuss the life and work of the seminal genre-bending writer
Juliana Spahr
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, October 30, 2018, 7pm
discussing the subject of her new book
De Bois' Telegram : Literary Resistance and State Containment
published by Harvard U. Press
The Residents
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, October 31, 2018, 7 pm
signing copies of their new book
The Brickeaters
published by Feral House
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