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Herbert Marcuse, Philosopher of Utopia
Nick Thorkelson, Paul Buhle, Andrew T. Lamas
Philosopher of Utopia: Celebrating the New Graphic Biography of Herbert Marcuse
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco Tuesday, April 16, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
Nick Thorkelson, Andrew T. Lamas, and a special guest TBD
discussing the new book
Herbert Marcuse, Philosopher of Utopia: A Graphic Biography
by Nick Thorkelson & published by City Lights Books
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Maxine Gordon on the life and legacy of Jazz legend Dexter Gordon
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, February 26, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of
Sophisticated Giant:The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon
published by University of California Press
Lloyd Kahn
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, February 27, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of his new book:
Driftwood Shacks: Anonymous Architecture Along the California Coast
from Shelter Publications
LOGIC Turns Two
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, March 5, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
Host: Jim Fingal, with special guests Megan Rose Dickey, Alexis C. Madrigal, Fred Turner, Ellen Ullman, and Julia Carrie Wong
Irvine Welsh in conversation with Alan Black
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, March 6, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of
Dead Men's Trousers
by Irvine Welsh
published by Melville House
Carolyn Burke in conversation with Oscar Villalon
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, March 7, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating her new book
Foursome:Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Strand, Rebecca Salsbury
published by Alfred Knopf
Nina Revoyr
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, March 12, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
reading from her latest novel
A Student of History
from Akashic Books
Ali Liebegott with special guests: Dodie Bellamy and Kevin Killian
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, March 13, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
reading from
The Summer of Dead Birds
published by Feminist Press
Sally Wen Mao
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, March 14, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
reading and in conversation with Jennifer S. Cheng
celebrating the release of
Oculus: Poems
published by Graywolf Press
Ferlinghetti at 100 / SFPL Reading celebrating Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Birthday
Koret Auditorium, Main Branch, San Francisco Public Library, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco
Sunday, March 17, 2019, 1:00 p.m.
In honor of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's 100th birthday the San Francisco Public Library will celebrate with a poetry extravaganza
Ferlinghetti at 100/ Book Release Party for LITTLE BOY
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, March 21, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti's new novel is celebrated with readings from selected passages
with appearances by Maxine Hong Kingston, Michael Krasny, Armistead Maupin, Joyce Carol Oates, Julien Poirier, Andrew Sean Greer, and Shobha Rao
Ferlinghetti at 100 / Film Screening of Chris Felver's "FERLINGHETTI"
Roxie Theater, 3117 16th Street, San Francisco, tickets at: www.roxie.com
Saturday, March 23, 2019, 1:30 p.m.
Chris Felver's moving portrait of Lawrence Ferlinghetti followed by an interview with the filmmaker
Ferlinghetti at 100 / Open House Birthday Party
City Lights Booksellers, Cafe Zoetrope, Vesuvio Cafe, Canessa Gallery
Sunday, March 24th, 1:00PM - 5:00PM
Join us in celebrating Lawrence Ferlinghetti's 100th Birthday
with a day of readings, reminiscences and joy at City Lights,
along with neighborhood events at the Canessa Gallery, Vesuvio's, and Café Zoetrope.
Ferlinghetti at 100 / The People v. Ferlinghetti : The Fight to Publish Allen Ginsberg's Howl
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, March 26, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
with Ronald K. L. Collins and David M. Skover
Ruby Ray
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, March 28, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of
Ruby Ray: Kalifornia Kool / Photographs 1976-1982
published by Trapart
Unnamed Press @ City Lights with Rheea Mukherjee & Adam Nemett
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, April 2, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
Lynn Breedlove
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, April 3, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
reading from their new book
45 Thought Crimes
from Manic D Press
Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Monday Apri 8 2019, 7:00 p.m.
Please join us as the team from Creative Chaos films this event for their upcoming documentary about gun culture in the United States! Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz will discuss her acclaimed book Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, April 10, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
reading from
Minutes of Glory and Other Stories
published by The New Press
Timothy Hampton
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, April 11, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
discussing
Bob Dylan's Poetics: How the Songs Work
from Zone Books
Herbert Marcuse, Philosopher of Utopia
Nick Thorkelson, Paul Buhle, Andrew T. Lamas
Philosopher of Utopia: Celebrating the New Graphic Biography of Herbert Marcuse
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco Tuesday, April 16, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
Nick Thorkelson, Andrew T. Lamas, and a special guest TBD
discussing the new book
Herbert Marcuse, Philosopher of Utopia: A Graphic Biography
by Nick Thorkelson & published by City Lights Books
Oliver Nachtwey in conversation with Adrian Daub
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, April 17, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
discussing the subject of Oliver Nachtwey's new book
Germany's Hidden Crisis
from Verso Books
copresented with the Goethe Institut
Damon Krukowski
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, April 18, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
discussing the subject of his new book
Ways of Hearing
published by MIT Press
Darius James
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Sunday, April 21, 2019, 5:00 p.m.
celebrating the eagerly awaited re-release of his seminal novel
Negrophobia: An Urban Parable
published by New York Review Books
Ed Bok Lee
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, April 24, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
reading from
Mitochondrial Night: Poems
from Coffee House Press
Neda Atanasoski in conversation with Kalindi Vora
City Light Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, April 25, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
discussing the subject of their new book
Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures
published by Duke University Press
Grace Schulman
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Monday, April 29, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
discussing the subject of her book
Strange Paradise: Portrait of a Marriage
published by Turtle Point Press
Foucault in California
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, April 30, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
Heather Dundas in conversation with David Wade
Chia-Chia Lin
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, May 7, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of her new novel
The Unpassing
published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Andrew Ross
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, May 8, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
discussing the subject of his new book
Stone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel
published by Verso Books
Jo Lendle
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Sunday, May 12, 2019, 5:00 p.m.
reading from and speaking about
All the Land
published by Seagull Books
copresented by Goethe Institut San Francisco
Saskia Vogel
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, May 15, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of her new novel
Permission
published by Coach House Books
Namwali Serpell in conversation with Ismail Muhammad
City Lights Bookseller, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, May 16, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
reading from and discussing her new novel
The Old Drift
from Hogarth Books
Max Porter
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, May 21, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of
Lanny: a novel
from Graywolf Press
Finn Brunton
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, June 4, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
discussing the subject of his new book
Digital Cash: The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency
from Princeton University Press
Allan Peterson
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, June 11, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
reading poetry from
This Luminous: New and Selected Poems
from Panhandler Books
Erik Davis
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, June 13, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
discussing the subject of his new book
High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies
from MIT Press
Punk Rock Is Cool for the End of the World: Poems and Notebooks of Ed Smith
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, June 19, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
with David Trinidad, Amy Gerstler, D.A. Powell, Kevin Killian, Dodie Bellamy, Randall Mann, and Roberto Bedoya
Louise Aronson
City Light Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, June 26, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
discussing the subject of her new book
Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life
from Bloomsbury Books
Elliot Sharp
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, June 27, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of
IrRational Music
from Terra Nova Books
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