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City Lights Readings and Events
City Lights hosts weekly events with authors from across the publishing world. Though we may once again be open for business, due to health restrictions and social distancing, we are unable to bring together groupings of people inside the store. As a result, we've moved our events online. Click on the listings below to learn more about our virtual calendar, and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter for regular updates. We hope to someday resume our live calendar when conditions allow.
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Build Bridges, Not Walls
Todd Miller
Todd Miller in conversation with Nick Estes
Event will be held on Zoom. Click the link in the event description for info. Thursday, April 8, 2021, 6 p.m. PT / 9 p.m. ET
Todd Miller and Nick Estes in conversation discussing
Build Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders
Published by City Lights Books
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Liner Notes For The Revolution
Daphne Brooks
Daphne A. Brooks in conversation with Ann Powers
This is a virtual event which will be held on the Zoom platform. Click the link in the event description for info. Wednesday, February 24, 2021, 6:00 p.m. PT / 9:00 p.m. ET
discussing the new book by Daphne A. Brooks
Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound
published by Belknap Press / Harvard University Press
Verge
Lidia Yuknavitch
Lidia Yuknavitch in conversation with Lance Olsen
This is a virtual event which will be held on the Zoom platform. Thursday, February 25, 2021, 6:00 p.m. PT / 9:00 p.m. ET
reading from their work and talking about literature.
Lidia Yuknavitch celebrates the paperback release of
Verge: stories
Published by Riverhead Books
Viet Thanh Nguyen in conversation with Laila Lalami
This is a virtual event which will be held on an internet streaming platform to be announced. Tuesday, March 2, 2021, 7pm PST / 10pm EDT
Bay Area Book Festival in conjunction with City Lights and Grove Atlantic Press
celebrate the release of Viet Thanh Nguyen's new novel
The Committed
published by Grove Atlantic Press
Courtney Zoffness with Rita Bullwinkel and Mat Johnson
This is a virtual event which will be held on the Zoom platform. Click the link in the event description for info. Wednesday, March 3, 2021, 6:00 p.m. PT / 9:00 p.m. ET
celebrating the publication of Courtney Zoffness' new memoir
Spilt Milk
published by McSweeney's
Joshua Mohr in conversation with Lidia Yuknavitch
This is a virtual event which will be held on the Zoom platform. Click the link in the event description for info. Tuesday, March 9, 2021, 6:00 p.m. PT / 9:00 p.m. ET
celebrating the launch of Joshua Mohr's new book
Model Citizen: a memoir
published by MCD/FSG
Kim Addonizio & Friends
This is a virtual event which will be held on the Zoom platform. Click the link in the event description for info. Tuesday March 16, 2021, 6:00 p.m. PT/ 9:00 p.m. ET
celebrating the launch of her new collection
Now We're Getting Somewhere: Poems
published by W.W. Norton
Patricia Engel joined by Roberto Lovato, Jean Guerrero, Juliana Delgado Lopera
This is a virtual event which will be held on the Zoom platform. Click the link in the event description for info. Thursday, March 18, 2021, 6:00 p.m. PT / 9:00 p.m. ET
celebrating the launch of her new novel
Infinite Country
published by Simon and Schuster
Pola Oloixarac in conversation with John Freeman
This is a virtual event which will be held on the Zoom platform. Click the link in the event description for info. Saturday, March 20, 2021, 12:00 p.m. PT / 3:00 p.m. ET
reading and discussing her new novel
MONA
Translated by Adam Morris, published by Farrar Straus Giroux
David Thomson in conversation with Jonathan Kiefer
This is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. Tuesday, March 23, 2021, 6:00 p.m. PT / 9:00 p.m. ET
celebrating the book launch of
A Light In The Dark: A History of Movie Directors
published by Alfred Knopf
Jillian C York in conversation with Ben Tarnoff
This is a virtual event which will be held on the Zoom platform. Click the link in the event description for info. Saturday, April 3, 2021, 12:00 p.m. PT / 3:00 p.m. ET
discussing Jillian York's new book
Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism
published by Verso Books
Hoa Nguyen with Garrett Caples
This is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. Tuesday, April 6, 2021, 6:00 p.m. PT / 9:00 p.m. ET
Hoa Nguyen reads from her new poetry collection
A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure
published by Wave Books
Rachel Kushner in conversation with Dana Spiotta
This is a virtual event to be held on Zoom. Presented by City Lights, Litquake, and Scribner Books Wednesday, April 7, 2021, 6:00 p.m. PT / 9 p.m. ET
celebrating the launch of Rachel Kushner's
The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020
published by Scribner
Build Bridges, Not Walls
Todd Miller
Todd Miller in conversation with Nick Estes
Event will be held on Zoom. Click the link in the event description for info. Thursday, April 8, 2021, 6 p.m. PT / 9 p.m. ET
Todd Miller and Nick Estes in conversation discussing
Build Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders
Published by City Lights Books
Jesse McCarthy
This is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. Tuesday, April 13, 2021, 6:00 p.m. PT / 9:00 p.m. ET
discussing his new book
Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul: Essays
published by Liveright Books/W.W. Norton
Willie Vlautin in conversation with Megan Abbott
This is a virtual event which will be held on the Zoom platform. Click the link in the event description for info. Wednesday, April 14, 2021, 6:00 p.m. PT / 9:00 p.m. ET
discussing Willie Vlautin's new book
The Night Always Comes
published by Harper Collins
Courttia Newland in conversation with Naomi Jackson and Victor LaValle
This is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. Saturday, April 17, 2021, 12:00 p.m. Noon PT / 3:00 p.m. ET
discussing Courttia Newland's newly published novel
A River Called Time
from Akashic Books
Marie Mutsuki Mockett
This is a virtual event which will be held on the Zoom platform. Click the link in the event description for info. Wednesday, April 21, 2021, 6:00 p.m. PT / 9:00 p.m. ET
discussing her new book
American Harvest: God, Country, and Farming in the Heartland
published by Graywolf Press
Mira Sethi
This is a virtual event which will be held on the Zoom platform. Click the link in the event description for info. Thursday, April 22, 2021, 6:00 p.m. PT / 9:00 p.m. ET
reading from her new fiction collection
Are You Enjoying?
published by Alfred Knopf
Kate Durbin and Alex Dimitrov
This is a virtual event which will be held on the Zoom platform. Click the link in the event description for info. Thursday, May 6, 2021, 6:00 p.m. PT / 9:00 p.m. ET
celebrating the launch of Kate Durbin's poetry collection
HOARDERS
published by Wave Books
Michael McClure Memorial Tribute
Event will be held on Zoom. Click the link in the event description for info. Sunday, May 9th, 3:00 p.m. PT / 6:00 p.m. ET
A memorial tribute to
Michael McClure
with readings and remembrances
Francisco Goldman in conversation with Valeria Luiselli
This is a virtual event which will be held on the Zoom platform. Click the link in the event description for info. Tuesday, May 11, 2021, 6:00 p.m. PT / 9:00 p.m. ET
discussing his new book
Monkey Boy: a novel
published by Grove Atlantic Press
Cynthia Kaufman in conversation with Francesca Caparas
This is a virtual event which will be held on the Zoom platform. Click the link in the event description for info. Tuesday, May 25, 2021, 6:00 p.m. PT / 9:00 p.m. ET
discussing Cynthia Kaufman's new book
The Sea Is Rising and So Are We: A Climate Justice Handbook
published by PM Press
Benjamin Hedin
This is a virtual event which will be held on the Zoom platform. Click the link in the event description for info. Tuesday, June 22, 2021, 6:00 p.m. PT / 9:00 p.m. ET
reading from his new novel
Under The Spell
published by Northwestern University Press
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