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Viet Thanh Nguyen, Thi Bui, and Meron Hadero celebrate the new anthology The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives, edited by Viet Thanh Nguyen, from Abrams Image. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen (The Sympathizer), and contributors Thi Bui (The Best Read More ...

William Middleton in conversation with City Lights’ Paul Yamazaki discussing the subject of his new book Double Vision: The Unerring Eye of Art World Avatars Dominique and John de Menil published by Alfred Knopf. (recorded in the City Lights Publishing Read More ...

R.O. Kwon in conversation with Oscar Villalon (managing editor of ZYZZYVA) celebrating her debut novel, The Incendiaries, published by Riverhead. Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2018 by the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, Elle, Time, Parade, Vanity Fair, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, PBS, Read More ...

Curtis White reading from his new novel Lacking Character, published by Melville House. The man Paul Auster called “a master of bewitchments” and a founder of the Fiction Collective returns to the novel after twenty years. In the spirit of “transcendental buffoonery,” Read More ...

Sesshu Foster reads from City of the Future & Max Yeh reads from Stolen Oranges, both published by Kaya Press. Founded in 1994, Kaya Press has established itself as the premier publisher of cutting-edge Asian and Pacific Islander diasporic writers Read More ...

Jenny Xie reading from her award-winning poetry collection Eye Level, published by Graywolf Press, Winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, selected by Juan Felipe Herrera. Jennifer S. Cheng reading from Moon: Letters, Maps, Poems Read More ...

Matthew Dickman celebrates the release of the poetry collection Wonderland from W.W. Norton and Emily Strelow celebrates the release of her debut novel The Wild Birds from Rare Bird Lit. Matthew Dickman is the author of All-American Poem (American Poetry Read More ...

Carmen Giménez Smith celebrating the release of Cruel Futures, City Lights Spotlight Series No. 17. Opening reading by Barbara Jane Reyes. Introduction by series editor, Garrett Caples Cruel Futures, the fifth collection from Latinx feminista Carmen Giménez Smith, is a Read More ...

Omnidawn Press presents David Koehn celebrating the release of Compendium: Donald Justice’s Prosody Syllabus and Robert Hass reading from his A Little Book on Form: An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry (published by Ecco). Following the presentation of Read More ...

Richard A. Walker celebrates his book Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area from PM Press. This sweeping account of the Bay Area in the age of the tech Read More ...