LIVE! From City Lights

Author Ayize Jama-Everett was at City Lights in our Poetry Room for a celebration of the release of Ayize’s two newest books: Entropy of Bones and The Liminal War, published by Small Beer Press. Ayize Jama-Everett was born in 1974 Read More ...

In this episode of LIVE! from City Lights, author Joseph Matthews reads from his new novel Everyone Has Their Reasons, published by PM Press. At a time when the issues of identity, immigration, and class remain both universally  important and Read More ...

City Lights teams up with the Film Noir Foundation and NYRB Books to present author Leonard Gardner in conversation with Eddie Muller, celebrating the re-release of the literary classic Fat City. Fat City is a vivid novel of allegiance and Read More ...

David Talbot joins City Lights for a reading and discussion of his new work, The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government from HarperCollins. America’s greatest untold story: the United States’ rise to world Read More ...

Join City Lights and the Book Club of California in an event that is described by editor Stephen Emerson as a “homecoming” for the late short-story writer Lucia Berlin, an evening celebrating Lucia’s life, work, and newly published collection A Manual Read More ...

City Lights founder and prolific poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti appears in person to celebrate the release of his long-anticipated new book, Writing Across the Landscape: Travel Journals 1960-2010. Lawrence and editors Giada Diano and Matthew Gleeson read choice excepts from this Read More ...

David Calonne celebrates the release of Henry Miller (Critical Lives) from Reaktion Books, describing his relationship with Miller’s work and the exhaustive critical study presented in the book. As an author, Henry Miller (1891–1980) was infamous for his explicit descriptions Read More ...

Author Benjamin Hedin sits down with City Lights to talk about how he became involved in the civil rights movement, the successes and shortcomings of the Black Lives Matter movement, and his new book with City Lights, In Search of Read More ...

City Lights teamed up with Radio Silence and author Benjamin Hedin to celebrate the release of Hedin’s newest book, In Search of the Movement: The Struggle for Civil Rights Then and Now. At the event, Benjamin Hedin shares excerpts and comments Read More ...

A special evening of word and song celebrating the new book with Banning Eyre discussing the life and music of Thomas Mapfuno and his new book, Lion Songs: Thomas Mapfumo and the Music That Made Zimbabwe by Banning Eyre from Read More ...

Nate Cardozo, Electric Frontier Foundation, interviews Robert Scheer to discuss Scheer’s new book, They Know Everything About You: How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy from Public Affairs Books. They Know Everything About You is a groundbreaking Read More ...

Keith P. Feldman discusses his new book, A Shadow over Palestine: The Imperial Life of Race in America, at City Lights. Upon signing the first U.S. arms agreement with Israel in 1962, John F. Kennedy assured Golda Meir that the Read More ...

City Lights celebrates the life and work of renowned 20th-century American poet John Wieners with readings from the newly released Stars Seen in Person: Selected Journals by John Wieners (published by City Lights) and Supplication: Selected Poetry of John Wieners Read More ...

PEACHES, joined by Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens in conversation, celebrates the release of What Else Is in the Teaches of Peaches.   What Else Is in the Teaches of Peaches presents a mesmerizing collection of Holger Talinski’s evocative and Read More ...

Master of hardboiled fiction Jim Nisbet returns to City Lights to celebrate the paperback release of The Price of the Ticket. Pauley’s done a few bad things in his life. He’s been around the block quite a few times, spending Read More ...