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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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Invocation to Daughters
Barbara Jane Reyes
Barbara Jane Reyes
City Lights Booksellers, San Francisco Tuesday, November 7th 2017, 7:00PM
celebrating the release of
City Lights Spotlight Series No. 16, Invocation To Daughters.
Reading together with David Brazil.
The Novel of the Tupinamba Indian
E.F. Granell
Eugenio F. Granell Tribute
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco Tuesday, December 12, 2017, 7:00 p.m.
with David Coulter and Garett Caples
celebrating the release of
The Novel of the Tupinamba Indian
by Eugenio F. Granell
published by City Lights Books
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The Cuban Club
Barry Gifford
Barry Gifford
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco Tuesday, October 24, 2017, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of
The Cuban Club: Stories
from Seven Stories Press
Breaking the Spell
Chris Robé
Chris Robé
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco Sunday, October 29, 2017, 5:00 p.m.
discussing his newly released book
Breaking the Spell: A History of Anarchist Filmmakers, Videotape Guerrillas, and Digital Ninjas
from PM Press
Here in Berlin
Cristina García
Cristina García
City Light Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco Wednesday, November 1, 2017, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of
Here In Berlin: A Novel
from Counterpoint Press
Micheline Aharonian Marcom in conversation with Rikki Ducornet
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, November 2nd, 2017, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of
The Brick House
from AWST Press
Invocation to Daughters
Barbara Jane Reyes
Barbara Jane Reyes
City Lights Booksellers, San Francisco Tuesday, November 7th 2017, 7:00PM
celebrating the release of
City Lights Spotlight Series No. 16, Invocation To Daughters.
Reading together with David Brazil.
The House of Government
Yuri Slezkine
Mechanics' Institute Library, 57 Post St San Francisco, CA 94104, Admission $10.00, Members Free Wednesday, November 8, 2017, 6:00 p.m.
in conversation with Bertrand M. Patenaude
celebrating the release of
The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution
from Princeton University Press
Who Reads Poetry? Views from Poetry Magazine
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, November 9, 2017, 7:00 p.m.
with Don Share, editor of Poetry Magazine, and Fred Sasaki, Poetry's art director joined by friends
David Meltzer Memorial Tribute
Humanities Auditorium, HUM 133, San Francisco State University, entrance near Tapia Drive, just off Holloway Avenue
Sunday November 12, 2017, 3–5pm
with Garrett Caples, Steve Dickison, Clark Coolidge, George Herms, Jack Hirschman, Marina Lazarra, Michael McClure, Julie Rogers, Jerome Rothenberg, Sunnylyn Thibodeaux. on video: Diane di Prima and Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Technicians of the Sacred
Jerome Rothenberg
Jerome Rothenberg
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco Monday, November 13, 2017, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of
Technicians of the Sacred, Third Edition: A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania, Revised and Expanded, 50th Anniversary
published by UC Press
The King is Always Above the People
Daniel Alarcón
Daniel Alarcón
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco Wednesday, November 15, 2017, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of
The King Is Always Above the People: Stories
published by Riverhead Books
Antifa
Mark Bray
Mark Bray
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco Thursday, November 16, 2017, 7:30 p.m.
discussing the subject of his new book
Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook
from Melville House
Viking Economics
George Lakey
George Lakey
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, 261 Columbus Ave. San Francisco, CA 94133 Sunday, November 19, 2017, 5:00 p.m.
presenting a talk titled
A NATION DIVIDED: What can we learn from the Nordics?
Mentored by a Madman
A.J. Lees
A.J. Lees on William S. Burroughs
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco Tuesday, November 28, 2017, 7:00 p.m.
discussing his newly released book
Mentored By A Madman: The William Burroughs Experiment
published by Notting Hill Editions, distributed by New York Review Books
*Logic ISSUE 3: JUSTICE Launch Party @ The Canessa Gallery
Canessa Gallery, 708 Montgomery St, San Francisco, CA 94111
Saturday, December 2, 2017, 6 pm.
Hosted by Ben Tarnoff with Angèle Christin, Sam Greenspan, and Gillian Terzis
Cuz
Danielle Allen
Danielle Allen
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco Monday, December 4, 2017, 7:00 p.m.
discussing her new book
Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A.
from Liveright Books ( a division of W.W. Norton)
Madness
Sam Sax
Sam Sax & D.A. Powell
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco Thursday, December 7, 2017, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of Sam Sax's new poetry collection
MADNESS
published by Penguin Books
Ithuriel's Spear @ City Lights
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, 261 Columbus Ave. San Francisco, CA 94133
Sunday, December 10, 2017, 5:00 p.m.
with new releases from
Hilton Obenzinger and Tony Robles (poetry), and Richard Schwarzenberger (short stories) and special guest appearance by Sin Sorocco
The Novel of the Tupinamba Indian
E.F. Granell
Eugenio F. Granell Tribute
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco Tuesday, December 12, 2017, 7:00 p.m.
with David Coulter and Garett Caples
celebrating the release of
The Novel of the Tupinamba Indian
by Eugenio F. Granell
published by City Lights Books
theMystery.doc
Matthew McIntosh
Matthew McIntosh
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco Wednesday, December 13, 2017, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of
theMystery.doc
published by Grove Press
Assembly
Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri
Michael Hardt in conversation with Joshua Clover
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco Thursday, December 14, 2017, 7:00 p.m.
discussing the subject of Michael Hardt's new book
Assembly
Co-authored with Antonio Negri
from Oxford University Press
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