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City Lights welcomes devorah major, who celebrates the release of her new book of poetry and then we became published by City Lights Books. devorah major is California born, San Francisco raised, granddaughter of immigrants, documented and undocumented, devorah major Read More ...

City Lights welcomes David Sax, who discusses his new book with David Pescovitz, The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter, published by Public Affairs Books. By now, we all know the mythology of the digital revolution: it Read More ...

City Lights celebrates the launch of Molotov Editions’ first two titles: The White Devil by Domenic Stansberry and The Death of Teddy Ballgame by Robert Mailer Anderson. This event includes reading, music, theater, movie stars, regular slobs, writers, ducks, barking dogs, Read More ...

City Lights and Uncommon Law welcome Keramet Reiter in conversation with Keith Wattley of UnCommon Law to discuss 23/7: Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Long-Term Solitary Confinement from Yale University Press. Originally meant to be brief and exceptional, Read More ...

City Lights presents Okey Ndibe, celebrating the release of Never Look an American in the Eye: A Memoir of Flying Turtles, Colonial Ghosts, and the Making of a Nigerian American from Soho Press. Okey Ndibe’s funny, charming, and penetrating memoir Read More ...

City Lights presents Masande Ntshanga reading from his acclaimed new novel The Reactive from Two Dollar Radio. Heralded in the author’s native South Africa as “the hottest novel of the year,” The Reactive is a clear-eyed and compassionate depiction of a Read More ...

City Lights welcomes Rabih Alameddine in celebrating the release of The Angel of History from Atlantic Monthly Press. The incendiary new novel by National Book Award finalist Rabih Alameddine, about an Arab American poet, whose adult life in San Francisco Read More ...

City Lights celebrates the release of Douglas Kearney’s collection of works, Buck Studies, from Fence Books. Douglas reads from the book in the Poetry Room. Poet, performer, librettist, and educator, Douglas Kearney returns to City Lights presenting a performance of Read More ...

City Lights celebrates an exciting new publishing venture! Hosted by David Talbot with Rebecca Gordon, Nicholas Schou, and Alexander Zaitchik. Our body politic has grown sluggish and dull-witted, stuffed with a steady diet of junk media and corporate propaganda. It’s Read More ...

City Lights welcomes Rikki Ducornet, reading from her new novel Brightfellow published by Coffee House Press. A feral boy comes of age on a campus decadent with starched sheets, sweating cocktails, and homemade jams. Stub is the cause of that Read More ...