LIVE! From City Lights

City Lights welcomes Camille T. Dungy discussing her new book Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History, published by W.W. Norton. An award-winning poet debuts in prose with a stunningly graceful and honest exploration of race, motherhood, Read More ...

City Lights welcomes Melvin A. Goodman discussing Whistleblower at the CIA: An Insider’s Account of the Politics of Intelligence published by City Lights Books. Melvin Goodman’s long career as a respected intelligence analyst at the CIA, specializing in US/Soviet relations, Read More ...

City Lights welcomes Achy Obejas reading from her new short story collection The Tower of the Antilles from Akashic Books. The Cubans in Achy Obejas’s story collection The Tower of the Antilles are haunted by an island: the island they Read More ...

City Lights welcomes Kit Schluter in conversation with Garrett Caples exploring the work of Marcel Schwob on the occasion of the release of The King in the Golden Mask by Marcel Schwob, (translated by Kit Schluter) published by Read More ...

City Lights presents Alex Dimitrov reading from his new book of poetry, Together and by Ourselves from Copper Canyon Press and Randall Mann reading from his new book, Proprietary: Poems from Persea Press. About Together and by Ourselves and Proprietary: Read More ...

City Lights welcomes Jennifer L. Shaw in conversation with Kit Schluter discussing the subject of the new book published by Reaktion Books Exist Otherwise: The Life and Works of Claude Cahun by Jennifer L. Shaw. In the turmoil of the Read More ...

City Lights welcomes Mark Hull. He discusses his new book, Masquerade: Treason, the Holocaust, and an Irish Impostor, co-authored with Vera Moynes, from the University of Oklahoma Press. Phyllis Ursula James. Nora O’Mara. Róisín Ní Mhéara. Like her name, the Read More ...

City Lights welcomes David Brazil as he celebrates the release of Holy Ghost (City Lights Spotlight No. 15), published by City Lights Books. David is joined by Julien Poirier. Garrett Caples, the Series editor, introduces the evening. The third full-length Read More ...

China Miéville discusses the subject of his new book, October: The Story of the Russian Revolution, from Verso Books. China Miéville has long been inspired by the ideals of the Russian Revolution and here, on the centenary of the revolution, Read More ...

City Lights welcomes Gordon Ball, reading from his new short story collection, On Tokyo’s Edge, from Red Mountain Press. Gordon Ball is a poet, photographer, filmmaker, professor of English, and master storyteller. For 28 years he took informal photographs of poet Read More ...