LIVE! From City Lights
Summary: LIVE! From City Lights broadcasts readings, interviews, and events from City Lights Booksellers and Publishers in San Francisco. Most of the bookstore events in the store (and some off-site) are recorded. We also feature interviews with City Lights authors.
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George Albon celebrates the release of his book, Lyric Multiples: Aspiration, Practice, Immanence, Migration (published by Nightboat), in conversation with Maxwell Shanley. Lyric Multiples comprises four essays written over the last decade. The subject is poetry but the essays range over Read More ...
Juliana Spahr discusses her book, Du Bois’s Telegram: Literary Resistance and State Containment, published by Harvard University Press. In 1956 W. E. B. Du Bois was denied a passport to attend the Présence Africaine Congress of Black Writers and Artists Read More ...
Adam Hochschild discusses the subject of his new book, Lessons from a Dark Time and Other Essays, published by University of California Press. Adam Hochschild is a journalist and author who has written on issues of human rights and social Read More ...
City Lights presents Donald Nicholson-Smith and James Brook discussing the life and work of the seminal French crime writer, Jean-Patrick Manchette, celebrating the recent release of Ivory Pearl, published by New York Review Books. Jean-Patrick Manchette (1942–1995) was a genre-redefining Read More ...
V. Vale and Mindaugis Bagdon in conversation with City Lights events director Peter Maravelis discussing William S. Burroughs’ “The Revised Boy Scout Manual” An Electronic Revolution, edited by Geoffrey D. Smith and John M. Bennett with an afterward by V. Read More ...
City Lights celebrates the release of Preserving Fire: Selected Prose by Philip Lamantia, edited by City Lights’s own Garrett Caples and published by Wave Books. Readings by Will Alexander, Micah Ballard, James Brook, Chris Carosi, Steve Fama, Brian Lucas, and Read More ...
John Freeman in conversation with Jaime Cortez and Rebecca Solnit, celebrating the release of FREEMAN’S LITERARY JOURNAL: POWER ISSUE, published by Grove Press. Co-presented by Litquake. From the voices of protestors to the encroachment of a new fascism, everywhere we Read More ...
The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University and New York Review Books in conjunction with City Lights present an afternoon with Darius James celebrating the eagerly awaited re-release of his seminal novel Negrophobia: An Urban Parable, introduction by Amy Read More ...
City Lights Books celebrates the release of Six by Ten: Stories from Solitary (published by Haymarket Books) with book editors Mateo Hoke and Taylor Pendergrass, and special guests Alexa Gelbard and Mohammed “Mike” Ali. Six by Ten explores the mental, Read More ...
City Lights welcomes multi-media conceptual artist, writer and activist John Sims to celebrate the release of his video poem chapbook, A Blazing Grace and the AfroDixieRemixes: The San Francisco Session. Joined by Terry Blackhawk, Sylvia L. Blalock, Drew Dellinger, and Read More ...
Léonora Miano in conversation with City Lights events coordinator Peter Maravelis celebrating the release of her book, Season of the Shadow, published by Seagull Press. Co-presented by the Cultural Services of the Consul General of France. This powerful novel presents Read More ...
Forrest Gander and Jonathan Santlofer celebrate the release of their two books: Be With, by Forrest Gander, published by New Directions & The Widower’s Notebook: A Memoir by Jonathon Santlofer, published by Penguin. Conversation moderated by Susan Steinberg. A conversation Read More ...
City Lights presents Ken Knabb, leading translator of Guy Debord and the Situationist International, discussing the situationists’ key influence on the nationwide May 1968 revolt in France, and how that astonishing social eruption remains relevant to our present-day world. Ken Read More ...
City Lights welcomes Margaret Randall celebrating the release of Time’s Language: Selected Poems (1959-2018) from Wings Press. Opening statement by Kate Hedin, publisher at Wings Press. Margaret Randall is a feminist poet, writer, photographer and social activist. Born in New Read More ...
Ingrid Rojas Contreras celebrating the release of her debut novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree, published by Doubleday. Joining her to read from the book are special guests Nancy Jooyoun Kim, Juliana Delgado Lopera, and Baruch Porras-Hernandez. A mesmerizing debut Read More ...
