Tara Jepsen in conversation with discussing Tara Jepsen’s new novel Like a Dog published by City Lights Books! Tara Jepsen is a writer and actor living in Los Angeles, California. She’s appeared in Emmy-winning series Transparent. She and longtime collaborator Read More ...

Barry Gifford celebrates the release of The Cuban Club: Stories from Seven Stories Press. A masterpiece of mood and setting, character and remembrance, The Cuban Club is Barry Gifford’s ultimate coming-of-age story told as sixty-four linked tales, a creation myth of the Read More ...

Eileen Myles celebrates the release of Afterglow (a dog memoir) from Grove Press. Starting from the emptiness following Rosie’s death, Afterglow (a dog memoir) launches a heartfelt and fabulist investigation into the true nature of the bond between pet and Read More ...

David Graeber discussing the subject of his new book Bullshit Jobs from Simon and Schuster. Graeber explores one of society’s most vexing and deeply felt concerns, indicting among other villains a particular strain of finance capitalism that betrays ideals shared Read More ...

Simeon Marsalis reading from As Lie Is to Grin: A Novel from Catapult Press. David, the narrator of Simeon Marsalis’s singular first novel, is a freshman at the University of Vermont who is struggling to define himself against the white Read More ...

Jessica Bruder discussing her book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century, published by W.W. Norton. From the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon’s CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a Read More ...

City Lights presents LOGIC Magazine release party-TECH IN THE AGE OF TRUMP. Co-presented with Litquake. Hosted by Moira Weigel, with Ben Tarnoff, Lee Fang, Kim-Mai Cutler, and Caroline O’Donovan. LOGIC, a new magazine about technology, will host a panel Read More ...

Juan González in conversation with John Avalos at City Lights discussing González’s new book, Reclaiming Gotham: Bill de Blasio and the Movement to End America’s Tale of Two Cities, from The New Press. Juan González is one of this country’s Read More ...

Adam Greenfield discussing the subject of his new book Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life from Verso Books, a field manual to the technologies that are transforming our lives. Previously a rock critic, bike messenger and psychological operations specialist Read More ...

Veronica Scott Esposito in conversation with Micheline Aharonian Marcom celebrating the release of The Doubles, published by Civil Coping Mechanisms. Part memoir-through-film, part inquiry into the effect art has on our lives, Veronica Scott Esposito’s The Doubles is a passionate, Read More ...