City Lights Readings and Events

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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National Insecurity
Melvin A. Goodman

Saturday, May 18th, 10:30am
Gaithersburg, MD: Gaithersburg Book Festival

Tuesday, July 30th, 6:30 pm
New York, NY: NY Public Library, Mid-Manhattan branch


The End of San Francisco
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Wednesday, May 22, 7:30 pm
Olympia, WA: Olympia Timberland Library

Thursday, June 6th, 2:30 pm
Seattle, WA: Antioch University Seattle


Sister Spit
Michelle Tea

Tuesday, May 28th, 6:00 pm
Amherst, MA: Food for Thought Books

Wednesday, May 29th, 7:00 pm
Boston, MA: Brookline Booksmith


Winged Shoes and a Shield
Don Bajema

Wednesday, May 29th, 7:30pm
New York, NY: Guerilla Lit Series


A Time of Angels
Homero Aridjis

Thursday, May 30th, 5:30 P.M.
Washington, D.C.: Pórtico Bookstore

Thursday, June 6th, 7:00 P.M.
New York, NY; McNally Jackson




       

Readings at the Bookstore

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Children of the Days
Eduardo Galeano

Eduardo Galeano
City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco, California
Sunday, May 19, 2013, 5:00 P.M.

reading from

Children Of The Days: A Calendar of Human History

from Nation Books



Who Owns the Future?
Jaron Lanier

Jaron Lanier
City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco, California
Tuesday, May 21, 2013, 7:00 P.M.

discussing his new book

Who Owns the Future?

from Simon & Schuster



Mundo Cruel
Luis Negrón

Luis Negron
City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco, CA
Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 7:00 P.M.

reading from

Mundo Cruel

from Seven Stories Press

in conversation with Oscar Villalon, Managing Editor of Zyzzyva



A Questionable Shape
Bennett Sims

Bennett Sims in conversation with Susan Steinberg
City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco, CA
Tuesday, June 18, 2013, 7:00 P.M.

reading from

A Questionable Shape

from 2 Dollar Radio



Alysia Abbott
City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco
Wednesday, June 19, 2013, 7:00 P.M.

discussing the subject of her new book

Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father

from W. W. Norton & Company

event cosponsored by the GLBT Historical Society



CITY LIGHTS AT 60/ Birthday Party & Open House
City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco, CA
Sunday, June 23, 2013, 2:00 P.M. til 5:00 P.M.

City Lights celebrates its 60th orbit around the sun!

Join us for readings, music, and surprises.



Subterranean SF presents Femme Fatale Night
Tuesday, June 25, 2013, doors 7:30 P.M., event 8:00 P.M., at an undisclosed location somewhere in San Francisco

with Cara Black, Daphne Gottlieb, Monica Nolan, Kelli Stanley, and Alia Volz



Matt Bell
City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco
Wednesday, June 26, 2013, 7:00 P.M.

celebrating the release of

In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods

from SoHo Press



Micheline Aharonian Marcom in conversation with Laleh Khadivi
City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco, CA
Thursday, June 27, 2013, 7:00 P.M.

Micheline Marcom reads from

A Brief History of Yes

from Dalkey Archive



Finn Brunton
City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco, CA
Monday, July 1, 2013, 7:00 P.M.

discussing

Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet

from MIT Press (Infrastructures Series)



Loren Glass
City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco, CA
Tuesday, July 2, 2013, 7:00 P.M.

discussing

Counterculture Colophon
Grove Press, the Evergreen Review, and the Incorporation of the Avant-Garde

from Stanford University Press



Laborfest 2013/Carol Tarlen Tribute
City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco, CA
Tuesday, July 9, 2013, 7:00 P.M.

with Aggie Falk, Jack Hirschman, David Joseph, Sarah Menefee, Leslie Simon, and Julia Stein



Dawn Bohulano Mabalon
City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco
Wednesday, July 10, 2013, 7:00 P.M.

celebrating the release of

Little Manila Is in the Heart

from Duke University Press



CITY LIGHTS AT 60/ HOWL LEGACY: The Continuing Battle for Free Expression
Contemporary Jewish Museum, 736 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103, Admission Free
Sunday, July 14, 2013, 3-5pm

Panel Discussion moderated by Peter Maravelis with guest speakers:: Rebecca Farmer (Communication Director, ACLU Northern California) James Wheaton (
First Amendment Project: Founder, Senior Counsel) Mark Rumold (Attorney-EFF)



CITY LIGHTS AT 60/ MANIA-The Story Of The Outraged & Outrageous Lives That Launched A Cultural Revolution
City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco, CA
Wednesday, July 17, 2013, 7:00 P.M.

with Ronald K.L. Collins, David Skover, and Al Bendich