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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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Vikram Chandra
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco
Thursday, September 4, 2014, 7:00 P.M.
discussing
Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, The Code of Beauty
from Graywolf Press
Thousand Times Broken
Henri Michaux
Book Party for Thousand Times Broken
City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco Wednesday, September 10th, 2014, 7:00pm
Celebrating the release of
Thousand Times Broken: Three Books
by Henri Michaux, translated from the French by Gilian Conoley.
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!
The Moor's Account
Laila Lalami
Laila Lalami
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco Wednesday, September 17, 2014, 7:00 P.M.
reading from
The Moor's Account
from Pantheon Books
Our Lady of the Nile
Scholastique Mukasonga
An evening with Scholastique Mukasonga
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco Thursday, September 18, 2014, 7:00 P.M.
with opening statements by Jill Schoolman (Archipelago Books)
celebrating the release of
Our Lady of the Nile
translated by Melanie Mauthner
published by Archipelago Books
Nayomi Munaweera
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco
Monday, September 22, 2014, 7:00 P.M.
reading from
Island of a Thousand Mirrors
from St. Martin's Press
Les Claypool & Larry LaLonde celebrate the release of "Primus: Over the Electric Grapevine: Insight into Primus and the World of Les Claypool"
Rickett's Lab, 124-140 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, 94133
Tuesday, September 23, 2014, 7:00 P.M.
presented by City Lights inconjunction with Akashic Books & Rickett's Lab
MariNaomi
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco
Wednesday, September 24, 2014, 7:00 P.M.
celebrating the release of
Dragon's Breath and Other True Stories'
published jointly by 2D Cloud and Uncivilized Books
An evening with Roxane Gay
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco
Thursday, September 25, 2014, 7:00 P.M.
discussing her new book
The Bad Feminist
from Harper Perennial
Wave Books Party!
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco
Tuesday, September 30, 2014, 7:00 P.M
Hosted by Matthew Zapruder with Garrett Caples, Anthony McCann, Hoa Nguyen, Cedar Sigo, & Rachel Zucker
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco
Wednesday, October 1, 2014, 7:00 P.M.
discussing her new book
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
from Beacon Press
Richard Kenvin on Surf Craft
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco
Tuesday, October 7, 2014, 7:00 P.M.
celebrating the release of the new book
Surf Craft: Design and the Culture of Board Riding
from The MIT Press
Man Alive
Thomas Page McBee
Book Party for Thomas Page McBee
City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco Thursday, October 9th, 2014, 7:00pm
Celebrating the release of
Man Alive by Thomas Page McBee
The latest memoir in the City Lights/Sister Spit series, edited by Michelle Tea.
Subterranean SF/Harboiled Fiction with an Edge presents The Litanies of Noir: A Talk Show
Undisclosed Location, by invitation only
Tuesday, October 14, 2014, 7:30 p.m.cocktails, 8:00 p.m.event
hosted by Peter Maravelis (editor of San Francisco Noir)
with guests Eddie Muller, David Talbot, Ben Tarnoff
Music by Mr. Lucky and the Cocktail Party
Here On The Edge: World War II, Conscientious Objectors on the Oregon Coast, and Seeds of the Sixties
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, October 15, 2014, 7:00 P.M.
City Lights in conjunction with LITQUAKE present a discussion with
Steve McQuiddy, Vladimir Dupre, and Steve Dickison (of The Poetry Center at SFSU)
James Lenfestey
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco
Monday, October 20, 2014, 7:00 P.M.
reading from
Seeking the Cave
A Pilgrimage To Cold Mountain
from Milkweed Editions
Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco
Tuesday, October 21, 2014, 7:00P.M.
Hosted by Jennifer De Leon
with Yalitza Ferreras, Erika Martinez, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Blanca Torres
Baffler Party !!!!!!!
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco
Wednesday, October 22, 2014, 7:00 P.M.
with Tom Frank and John Summers
celebrating the release of
No Future For You: Salvos from The Baffler
Gerald Nicosia
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, October 28, 2014, 7:00 p.m.
discussing his new book
Night Train to Shanghai
from Grizzly Peak Press
The esctatic writing of Qiu Miaojin: Ari Larissa Heinrich in conversation with Scott Esposito
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, October 29, 2014, 7:00 P.M.
City Lights in conjunction with NYRB Books present an evening of discussion about an uncommon writer
Haunted Reflections: Walter Benjamin in San Francisco
Various Locations, San Francisco
Wednesday, November 5 through Sunday, November 9, 2014
A week-long celebration of the life and work of one of the twentieth centuries great thinkers
Subterranean SF Reading Series presents...Katie Gilmartin's "Blackmail, My Love"
Thursday, November 13, 2014, 8:00 P.M., Location: Undisclosed (by invite only)
An evening of storytelling delving into the darker side of San Francisco's 1950's Queer Underground
Freedom Voices Press Celebrates 25 Years
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, November 18, 2014, 7:00 P.M.
with Margot Pepper, Paul Boden, and J. Douglas Allen-Taylor
An evening with Ed Piskor
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, November 20, 2014, 7:00 P.M.
celebrating the release of
Hip Hop Family Tree Vol. 1-2: 1975-1983 Gift Box Set
from Fantagraphics
Bill Berkson
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, December 2, 2014, 7:00 P.M.
reading from his new poetry collection
Expect Delays
from Coffee House Press
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