celebrating two new books
Origin of the German Trauerspiel, by Walter Benjamin, (Tr. Howard Eiland)
and
Notes on Literature, Film, and Jazz, by Howard Eiland, published by Spuyten Duyvil
Dennis Baron
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, February 18, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
discussing the subject of his new book
What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She
Published by Liveright
William T. Vollmann
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, February 20, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
reading from his new novel
The Lucky Star: A Novel
published by Viking/Penguin
John Sayles
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Monday, February 24, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
reading from his new novel
Yellow Earth
from Haymarket Books
Megan Fernandes with Sam Sax
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, February 25, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
reading from her new collection of poetry
Good Boys
published by Tin House Books
Dodie Bellamy and Anthony Huberman in conversation
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, February 27, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of
Dodie Bellamy Is on Our Mind
Edited by Jeanne Gerrity and Anthony Huberman
published by Semiotext(e) Books, distributed by The MIT Press
Javad Djavahery
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, March 4, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
reading from his new novel
My Part of Her
translated by Emma Ramadan, published by Restless Books
Lloyd Kahn
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbua Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, March 5, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
Slideshow/Talk celebrating the release of
The Half Acre Homestead: 46 Years of Building and Gardening
from Shelter Publications
Nomadic Press @ City Lights
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, March 10, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
with Tureeda Mikell, Josiah Luis Alderete, Ayodele Nzinga, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Genny Lim, James Cagney, Dr. James P. (Jimmy) Garrett, music by Azuah
Shana Redmond
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday March 11, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
discussing the subject of her new book
Everything Man: The Form and Function of Paul Robeson
from Duke University Press
William J. Drummond
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, March 17, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
discussing the subject of his new book
Prison Truth: The Story of the San Quentin News
from University of California Press
Lisa Robertson
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, March 18, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
reading from
The Baudelaire Fractal
published by Coach House Books
Chris Carlsson
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, March 19, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of
Hidden San Francisco: A Guide to Lost Landscapes, Unsung Heroes and Radical Histories
from Pluto Press
No Fascist USA!
Hilary Moore, James Tracy
Hilary Moore & James Tracy
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, March 24, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of
No Fascist USA! The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today's Movements
published by City Lights Books
Alexandra Mattraw with Tiff Dressen and Maw Shein Win
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, March 25, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of Alexandra Mattraw's new poetry collection
We fell into Weather
from Cultural Society
Robert Glück
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, March 26, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the new edition of
Margery Kempe
by Robert Glück, introduction by Colm Tóibín
published by New York Review Books
Archive 48 Release Party: The Earthly Days of Jose Revueltas
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, March 31, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
Binational publisher Archive 48, dedicated to Mexican and U.S. literature, launches its U.S. wing with the first-ever English translation of an important work by José Revueltas. Join us to celebrate its release.
Beth Lisick
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, April 1, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of
Edie On The Green Screen: A Novel
published by 7.13 Books
Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, April 2, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of
The Mountains Sing
from Workman Publishing Company
Melville House @ City Lights
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, April 9, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
Malcolm Harris in conversation with Curtis White, moderated by Jenny Odell
Wendy Liu
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, April 15, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
discussing the subject of her new book
Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism
from Repeater Books
Ilya Kaminski and Tess Taylor
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, April 16, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of two new books from Tess Taylor
Rift Zone:poems and Last West
Frank Wilderson III
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, April 21, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
discussing the subject of his new book
Afropessimism
published by Liveright Books / W.W. Norton
Maurice Carlos Ruffin in conversation with Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Sunday, April 26, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
Maurice Carlos Ruffin reading from
We Cast A Shadow
published by One World
Little Hill
Alli Warren
Alli Warren
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, April 28, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of
Little Hill
published by City Lights Books
Ainissa Ramirez
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Sunday, May 3, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
discussing the subject of her new book
The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
from The MIT Press
Alia Volz in conversation with Paul Yamazaki
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San francisco
Tuesday May 5, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
discussing the subject of Alia Volz's new book
Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco
Karen Tei Yamashita
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, May 6, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of her new short fiction collection
Sansei and Sensibility
published by Coffee House Press
Margaret Randall in conversation with Garrett Caples
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, May 7, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
discussing the subject of Margaret Randall's new book
I Never Left Home: Poet, Feminist, Revolutionary
from Duke University Press
Berkeley Noir with Jerry Thompson and Owen Hill
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, May 12, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of the the new crime fiction anthology
Berkeley Noir
published by Akashic Books
Jennifer Worley
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, June 9, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
Book Release Party for
Neon Girls: A Stripper's Education in Protest and Power
from Harper Collins
Facing You
Uche Nduka
Uche Nduka
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, June 25, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of
Facing You (City Lights Spotlight Series No. 19
published by City Lights Books
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