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City Lights welcomes Dodie Bellamy and Kevin Killian, joined by special guests Margaret Jenkins, David O. Steinberg, Judy Grahn, Camille Roy, Roberto Bedoya, Gabrielle Daniels, Scott Watson, and Matias Viegener in celebrating the release of Writers Who Love Too Much: Read More ...

City Lights welcomes James Nolan to celebrate the release of his new book, Flight Risk: Memoirs of a New Orleans Bad Boy, from University Press of Mississippi. Flight Risk takes off as a page-turning narrative with deep roots and a Read More ...

City Lights welcomes Damon Krukowski to discuss his new book, The New Analog: Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital World, from The New Press. Joining him is City Lights Publisher/Executive Director, Elaine Katzenberger. What John Berger did to ways of Read More ...

City Lights celebrates a new crime anthology from Akashic Books, Oakland Noir, with Nick Petrulakis, Jamie DeWolf, Eddie Muller & Jerry Thompson. California’s noir quotient continues to rise with Oakland Noir, which reveals all the dark complexities of this prominent city. Read More ...

City Lights welcomes erica lewis, reading from her new poetry collection, mary wants to be a superwoman, published by Third Man Books and Rita Bullwinkel, reading from her forthcoming work, Belly Up, (forthcoming from A Strange Object in May of Read More ...

City Lights welcomes Omar El Akkad in conversation with Micheline Aharonian Marcom to discuss & read from his acclaimed new novel, American War, published by Knopf. An audacious and powerful debut novel. a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, Read More ...

City Lights presents Clark Coolidge reading from his poetry and celebrating the release of Selected Poems: 1962-1985 from Station Hill Press, edited by Larry Fagin. Clark Coolidge is a revered figure in the world of American and world experimental poetry. Read More ...

City Lights welcomes Dean Rader in celebrating the release of his new collection of poetry, Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry from Copper Canyon Press. Wikipedia articles are never finalized. In Dean Rader’s energized and inventive new book, the poet considers identity Read More ...

The Poetry Society of America and City Lights Bookstore present SYRIA — Because We Come From Everything: The Poetics of Migration, a poetry reading and discussion as part of the Poetry Coalition’s 2017 programming with Jonathan Curiel, Jack Hirschman, and Read More ...

City Lights presents Elif Batuman who discusses her new novel, The Idiot, published by Penguin Press. A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself. The year is 1995, and email Read More ...