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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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City Lights Authors on the Road
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Readings at the Bookstoresee more events at City Lights Bookstore >>
Melville House @ City Lights ----EVENT POSTPONED----
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, April 9, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
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Malcolm Harris in conversation with Curtis White, moderated by Jenny Odell
John Gibler ----EVENT POSTPONED----
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, April 14, 2020, 7:00 P.M.
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presents
How a State Lies: Looking at Alternative Models of Impunity
a talk about the ways governments create the illusion of justice while concealing the truth beh
Wendy Liu ----EVENT POSTPONED----
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, April 15, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
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discussing the subject of her new book
Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism
from Repeater Books
Ilya Kaminsky and Tess Taylor ----EVENT POSTPONED----
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, April 16, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
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celebrating the release of two new books from Tess Taylor
Rift Zone:poems and Last West
Peniel E. Joseph ----EVENT POSTPONED----
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Monday April 20, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
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discussing his new book
The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
from Basic Books
Frank Wilderson III ----EVENT POSTPONED----
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, April 21, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
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discussing the subject of his new book
Afropessimism
published by Liveright Books / W.W. Norton
Katherine Silver in conversation with Mauro Javier Cárdenas ----EVENT POSTPONED----
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, April 23, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
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Carlos Onetti meets Julio Ramón Ribeyro in an evening of discussion between a master translator and an award winning novelist
Maurice Carlos Ruffin ----EVENT POSTPONED----
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Sunday, April 26, 2020, 5:00 p.m.
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Maurice Carlos Ruffin reading from
We Cast A Shadow
published by One World
Daniel Denvir ----EVENT POSTPONED----
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Monday, April 27, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
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discussing the subject of his new book
All-American Nativism: How the Bipartisan War on Immigrants Explains Politics as We Know It
published by Verso Books
Ainissa Ramirez - EVENT POSTPONED -
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Sunday, May 3, 2020, 5:00 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 -EVENT POSTPONED-
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
Emerson Whitney -Event Postponed-
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, May 6, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
discussing their new work of prose
Heaven
published by McSweeney's
Karen Tei Yamashita (POSTPONED)
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, May 6, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
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celebrating the release of her new short fiction collection
Sansei and Sensibility
published by Coffee House Press
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Margaret Randall -Event Postponed-
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 -EVENT POSTPONED-
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, May 12, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of their new crime fiction anthology
Berkeley Noir
published by Akashic Books
Killer Apps -EVENT POSTPONED-
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, May 14, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
discussing the subject of their new book
Killer Apps: War, Media, Machine
published by Duke University Press
Cara Black with Jacqueline Winspear -EVENT POSTPONED-
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Tuesday, May 19, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
Two masters of crime fiction discussing the writing of fiction that takes place in World War Two Europe.
Fayette Hauser -EVENT POSTPONED-
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, May 20, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating the release of
THE COCKETTES
published by Process Books/Feral House
Robert Mailer Anderson -EVENT POSTPONED-
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Thursday, May 21, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
celebrating his new graphic novel
Windows on the World
published by Fantagraphics Books
Co-authored with Zack Anderson and Jon Sack
Abdellah Taïa -EVENT POSTPONED-
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, June 3, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
reading from his newly translated novel
A Country for Dying
translated by Emma Ramadan, published by Seven Stories Press
Jennifer Worley -EVENT POSTPONED-
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
Cynthia Kaufman -EVENT POSTPONED-
City Lights Booksellers, 261 Colombus Avenue, San Francisco
Wednesday, June 24, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
discussing the subject of her new book
Challenging Power: Democracy and Accountability in a Fractured World
published by Bloomsbury Books
Facing You
Uche Nduka
Uche Nduka -EVENT POSTPONED-
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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