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Léonora Miano in conversation with City Lights events coordinator Peter Maravelis celebrating the release of her book, Season of the Shadow, published by Seagull Press. Co-presented by the Cultural Services of the Consul General of France. This powerful novel presents Read More ...

Forrest Gander and Jonathan Santlofer celebrate the release of their two books: Be With, by Forrest Gander, published by New Directions & The Widower’s Notebook: A Memoir by Jonathon Santlofer, published by Penguin. Conversation moderated by Susan Steinberg. A conversation Read More ...

City Lights presents Ken Knabb, leading translator of Guy Debord and the Situationist International, discussing the situationists’ key influence on the nationwide May 1968 revolt in France, and how that astonishing social eruption remains relevant to our present-day world. Ken Read More ...

City Lights welcomes Margaret Randall celebrating the release of Time’s Language: Selected Poems (1959-2018) from Wings Press. Opening statement by Kate Hedin, publisher at Wings Press. Margaret Randall is a feminist poet, writer, photographer and social activist. Born in New Read More ...

Ingrid Rojas Contreras celebrating the release of her debut novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree, published by Doubleday. Joining her to read from the book are special guests Nancy Jooyoun Kim,  Juliana Delgado Lopera, and Baruch Porras-Hernandez. A mesmerizing debut Read More ...

City Lights presents Tosh Berman, author of TOSH: Growing Up In Wallace Berman’s World, in conversation with Natalia Mount, chief curator at Pro Arts Gallery in Oakland, CA. Tosh Berman is a Los Angeles-based writer, poet, and avant-garde publisher, notably Read More ...

Ana Raquel Minian discussing the subject of her new book Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration from Harvard University Press. Ana Raquel Minian is Assistant Professor of History and of Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford Read More ...

Richard Rhodes discussing the subject of his new book ENERGY: A Human History, published by Simon and Schuster. Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes reveals the fascinating history behind energy transitions over time—wood to coal to oil Read More ...

City Lights presents Gabriela Alemán, speaking alongside special guests Mauro Javier Cardenas and Dick Cluster to celebrate the release of her newest book Poso Wells. Opening statement by City Lights Publisher/Executive Director Elaine Katzenberger. Poso Wells is published by City Read More ...

Daegan Miller discussing the subject of his book This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent from University of Chicago Press. Working in a tradition that stretches from Thoreau to Rebecca Solnit, Miller offers nothing less than a new Read More ...