LIVE! From City Lights

Zoe Quinn discussing her book Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate from Public Affairs Books with special guest Anita Sarkeesian. Crash Override offers an up-close look inside the Read More ...

Josh Weil reading from his new novelThe Age of Perpetual Light from Grove Press. Brilliantly hewn and piercingly observant, these are tales that speak to the all-too-human desire for advancement and the struggle of wounded hearts to find a salve, Read More ...

Matthew Zapruder in conversation with Oscar Villalon (executive editor Zyzzyva Magazine) celebrating the release of Why Poetry from Ecco Press. In Why Poetry, award-winning poet Matthew Zapruder takes on what it is that poetry—and poetry alone—can do. Zapruder argues that Read More ...

Karen Tei Yamashita celebrating the release of her new book Letters to Memory from Coffee House Press. Letters to Memory is an excursion through the Japanese internment using archival materials from the Yamashita family as well as a series of epistolary Read More ...

Tongo Eisen-Martin performs poems from his new book, Heaven Is All Goodbyes, joined by Tanea Lunsford Lynx and Q.R. Hand. “The tesseraic language of Tongo Eisen Martin’s Heaven Is All Goodbyes brings a new, shared articulation to the intricacies and Read More ...

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz discussing her new book, Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment, from City Lights Publishers. Co-sponsored by Democratic Socialists of America. Loaded is a deeply researched—and deeply disturbing—history of guns and gun laws in the United States, Read More ...

Daniel Kane discusses his new book “Do You Have a Band?”: Poetry and Punk Rock in New York City from Columbia University Press. In “Do You Have a Band?”, Daniel Kane reads deeply across poetry and punk music to capture Read More ...

Ryan Gattis returns to City Lights, this time reading from his new novel Safe published by MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux. About Safe: Ricky ‘Ghost’ Mendoza, Jr. is trying to be good. In recovery and working as a freelance safecracker for Read More ...

John Nichols discusses Horsemen of the Trumpocalypse: A Field Guide to the Most Dangerous People in America from Nation Books, an essential examination of the the dirty dealers and defenders of the indefensible who are “making America great again.” John Read More ...

Dream Colonies, Painterlands, and the Intersection of Curating with Creation: Bruce Conner meets Walter Hopps. Anastasia Aukeman, author of Welcome to Painterland: Bruce Conner and the Rat Bastard Protective Association meets Deborah Treisman, co-author with Walter Hopps and Anne Doran Read More ...