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City Lights celebrates the publication of The Novel of the Tupinamba Indian (published by City Lights) with translator David Coulter, editor Garrett Caples, and actor Robert Ernst. Written by Galician surrealist artist and communist revolutionary E.F. Granell, The Novel of Read More ...

A celebration of the release of sam sax’s poetry collection Madness published by Penguin Books. D.A. Powell opens the reading and then sam sax reads from Madness. In this ­­­powerful debut collection, sam sax explores and explodes the linkages between desire, Read More ...

David Harvey and Richard A. Walker discussing the subject of David Harvey’s new book Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason from Oxford University Press. In Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason, David Harvey not only provides Read More ...

Brian “B+” Cross in conversation with Jeff Chang to celebrate the release of his new book Ghostnotes: Music of the Unplayed, published by University of Texas Press. A magnificent retrospective of the world’s preeminent hip-hop/rap photographer. Ghostnotes offers a unique Read More ...

Mark Bray discussing his book Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook from Melville House. In a smart and gripping investigation, historian and former Occupy Wall Street organizer Mark Bray provides a one-of-a-kind look inside the movement, including a detailed survey of its Read More ...

Jerome Rothenberg and friends celebrating the release of Technicians of the Sacred, Third Edition: A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania, Revised and Expanded, 50th Anniversary Edition, edited by Jerome Rothenberg, published by University of California Read More ...

City Lights welcomes Don Share, editor of Poetry Magazine, and the book Who Reads Poetry? 50 Views from Poetry Magazine published by University of Chicago. This anthology of the best of the magazine’s View from Here feature brings in non-poets Read More ...

Barbara Jane Reyes celebrating the release of her new poetry collection, City Lights Spotlight Series No. 16, Invocation To Daughters. David Brazil opens the reading with poems from his book in the Spotlight Series, Holy Ghost. The fifth collection from Read More ...

Micheline Aharonian Marcom in conversation with Rikki Ducornet celebrating the release of The Brick House by Micheline Aharonian Marcom from AWST Press. The Brick House is an illuminated book about a house where people go to dream. It is a book Read More ...

Cristina García celebrating the release of Here In Berlin: A Novel from Counterpoint Press. Here in Berlin is a portrait of a city through snapshots, an excavation of the stories and ghosts of contemporary Berlin—its complex, troubled past still pulsing Read More ...