LIVE! From City Lights show

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.

Podcasts:

 Tommy Orange | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 50:36

Tommy Orange reading from There There, published by Alfred Knopf. Opening statement by San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck. Not since Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary Read More ...

 Scarlett Sabet & Janaka Stucky | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:09:40

Scarlett Sabet & Janaka Stucky reading from new works. Scarlett Sabet is a London based poet and performer. She wrote, directed and starred in her poetic short film Burning which was produced by BAFTA-winning producer Charlie Hanson in 2012. Her Read More ...

 Go Home! Book Release with Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Rachel Khong, Beth Nguyen, and R.O. Kwon | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:23:48

Feminist Press in conjunction with Asian American Writers’ Workshop present a book release party for Go Home!, edited by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan with foreword from Viet Thanh Nguyen, published by The Feminist Press. Opening statement by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan with Read More ...

 Lynne Tillman | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 42:13

Lynne Tillman presents her novel, Men and Apparitions, from Soft Skull Press. Lynne Tillman is a novelist, short story writer, and cultural critic. Her novels are Haunted Houses; Motion Sickness; Cast in Doubt; No Lease on Life, a finalist for Read More ...

 Vegas Tenold | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 50:08

Vegas Tenold discussing his new book Everything You Love Will Burn published by Nation Books. Six years ago, Vegas Tenold embedded himself among the members of three of America’s most ideologically extreme white nationalist groups-the KKK, the National Socialist Movement, Read More ...

 Joseph Lease | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 32:28

Joseph Lease reading from his new poetry collection The Body Ghost from Coffee House Press. Spare, airy, exacting poems whose quietness is often at an ironic counterpoint to their fiery leftist politics. “Promise me the rich can’t sleep,” Joseph Lease Read More ...

 Release Party for HOWL: The Album Box Set | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:02:28

Our release party for the new vinyl box set of Howl and Other Poems from Craft Recordings with Bill Belmont, Dennis McNally, San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck, and more. Craft Recordings, the Catalog division of Concord Music, is pleased Read More ...

 Joyce Carol Oates 4 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 35:54

Joyce Carol Oates reading from her new short-fiction collection Beautiful Days from Harper Collins. The diverse stories of Beautiful Days, Joyce Carol Oates explore the most secret, intimate, and unacknowledged interior lives of characters not unlike ourselves, who assert their Read More ...

 Jenn Pelly and Greil Marcus Discussing The Raincoats | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 51:21

Jenn Pelly in conversation with Greil Marcus about The Raincoats, presented in conjunction with City Lights and the Rock and Roll Book Club of San Francisco, celebrating a new edition in the 33 & 1/3 series, The Raincoats, by Jenn Read More ...

 Michael Hardt and Joshua Clover | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:30:55

Michael Hardt in conversation with Joshua Clover discussing Michael Hardt’s new book Assembly co-authored with Antonio Negri published Oxford University Press. Michael Hardt teaches in the Literature Program at Duke University. He is the author of Gilles Deleuze: an Apprenticeship Read More ...

 The Novel of the Tupinamba Indian by E.F. Granell | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:05:00

City Lights celebrates the publication of The Novel of the Tupinamba Indian (published by City Lights) with translator David Coulter, editor Garrett Caples, and actor Robert Ernst. Written by Galician surrealist artist and communist revolutionary E.F. Granell, The Novel of Read More ...

 sam sax and D.A. Powell | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 46:35

A celebration of the release of sam sax’s poetry collection Madness published by Penguin Books. D.A. Powell opens the reading and then sam sax reads from Madness. In this ­­­powerful debut collection, sam sax explores and explodes the linkages between desire, Read More ...

 David Harvey and Richard A. Walker | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:12:09

David Harvey and Richard A. Walker discussing the subject of David Harvey’s new book Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason from Oxford University Press. In Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason, David Harvey not only provides Read More ...

 Brian “B+” Cross and Jeff Chang | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:06:33

Brian “B+” Cross in conversation with Jeff Chang to celebrate the release of his new book Ghostnotes: Music of the Unplayed, published by University of Texas Press. A magnificent retrospective of the world’s preeminent hip-hop/rap photographer. Ghostnotes offers a unique Read More ...

 Mark Bray | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 51:26

Mark Bray discussing his book Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook from Melville House. In a smart and gripping investigation, historian and former Occupy Wall Street organizer Mark Bray provides a one-of-a-kind look inside the movement, including a detailed survey of its Read More ...

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