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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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Nochita
Dia Felix
Book Party for Dia Felix
City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco Thursday, March 13, 2014, 7:00 P.M.
celebrating the release of
Nochita
by Dia Felix
the latest novel in the City Lights/Sister Spit series, edited by Michelle Tea!
with special guest Camille Roy!
San Francisco, CA: Elbo Room
It's the kick-off for the Sister Spit 2014 tour!
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Made to Break
D. Foy
D. Foy & Josh Mohr
City Lights Bookstore. 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco Tuesday, March 11, 2014, 7:00 p.m.
D. Foy celebrates the release of his new novel
Made To Break
from 2 Dollar Radio
Nochita
Dia Felix
Book Party for Dia Felix
City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco Thursday, March 13, 2014, 7:00 P.M.
celebrating the release of
Nochita
by Dia Felix
the latest novel in the City Lights/Sister Spit series, edited by Michelle Tea!
with special guest Camille Roy!
Exploring themes from Aphex Twin - An Evening with Marc Weidenbaum & Friends
City Lights Bookstore. 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, March 20, 2014, 7:00 p.m.
Discussion / Concert celebrating
the new 33 1/3 edition Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Volume II
with Marielle Jakobsons, Jared Smith, and subnaught
The Bohemians
Ben Tarnoff
Ben Tarnoff
City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco Tuesday, April 1, 2014, 7:00 P.M.
discussing his new book
The Bohemians: Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American Literature
from Penguin Press
Poetry Reading - Raina J. León, Alexandra Mattraw, and Kevin Simmonds
City Lights Bookstore. 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, April 8, 2014, 7:00 P.M.
Leslie Jamison
City Lights Bookstore. 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, April 10, 2014, 7:00 p.m.
reading from her new essay collection
The Empathy Exams
from Graywolf Press
Matthew Zapruder
City Lights Bookstore. 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, April 15, 2014, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of his new poetry collection
Sunbear
from Copper Canyon Press
Kevin Young
City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, 94133
Wednesday, April 16, 2014, 7:00 P.M.
reading from his exquisite new collection of poetry
BOOK OF HOURS
from Alfred A. Knopf
Kaya Press 20th Anniversary Celebration
City Lights Bookstore. 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, April 17, 2014, 7:00 p.m.
with Sesshu Foster, Gene Oishi, Amarnath Ravva, and Shailja Patel
Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics 40th Anniversary Party
City Lights Bookstore. 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Sunday, April 20, 2014, 5:00 p.m.
join City Lights and JKS faculty and friends in an afternoon celebration
Sixteen Rivers Press @ City Lights
City Lights Bookstore. 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, April 22, 2014, 7:00 p.m.
with poetry readings by Beverly Burch & Murray Silverstein
An evening with Tony Serra
City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94133
Thursday, April 24, 2014, 7:00 P.M.
celebrating the release of
Tony Serra: The Green, Yellow and Purple Years in the Life of a Radical Lawyer
from Grizzly Peak Press
Tess Taylor and DA Powell
City Lights Bookstore. 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Monday, April 28, 2014, 7:00 p.m.
City Lights in conjunction with Zyzzyva present
and evening of poetry
Hosted by Oscar Villalon, Managing Editor, Zyzzyva
Left Curve Night at City Lights
City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94133
Tuesday, April 29, 2014, 7:00 P.M.
celebrating Issue No. 38
with presentations by numerous contributors
Kate Gale, Douglas Kearney, and Peggy Shumaker
City Lights Bookstore. 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Monday, May 5, 2014, 7:00 p.m.
Fridays @ Enrico's: A Tribute to Don Carpenter
The Book Club of California, 312 Sutter Street, Suite 500 (cross street Grant) San Francisco, CA 94108
Tuesday, May 6, 2014, 7:00 P.M. Admission Free
with Peter Coyote, Curt Gentry, Louis B. Jones, Anne Lamott, and Jane Vandenburgh
Hosted by Peter Maravelis/City Lights
Ken Knabb discussing the work of Guy Debord
City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, 94133
Tuesday, May 13, 2014, 7:00 P.M.
celebrating Ken Knabb's new translation of
Society of the Spectacle
by Guy Debord
Gabrielle Selz
City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, 94133
Thursday, May 15, 2014, 7:00 P.M.
discussing the release of her new memoir
Unstill Life: A Daughter's Memoir of Art and Love in the Age Of Abstraction
from W W Norton
Howard Norman
City Lights Bookstore. 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, May 20, 2014, 7:00 p.m.
reading from
Next Life Might Be Kinder
from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Chris Felver
City Lights Bookstore. 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, May 22, 2014, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of
American Jukebox
from University of Indiana Press
Eli Horowitz, Matthew Derby, and Kevin Moffett
City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, 94133
Tuesday, June 17, 2014, 7:00 P.M.
discussing their new novel
The Silent History
from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux
Peter Orlovsky, a Life in Words: Intimate Chronicles of a Beat Writer
City Lights Bookstore. 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, June 18, 2014, 7:00 p.m.
with Bill Morgan, Joanne Kyger, and Michael McClure
Adam Wilson & Lucy Corin
City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, 94133
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of Adam Wilson's new short story collection
What's Important Is Feeling
from Harper Perennial
Haiti Glass
Lenelle Moïse
Book Party for Lenelle Moïse
City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco Tuesday, September 16, 2014, 7:00 P.M.
celebrating the release of
Haiti Glass
by Lenelle Moïse
The latest poetry collection in the City Lights/Sister Spit series, edited by Michelle Tea!
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