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Editor Seth Perlow Discussing The Corrected Centennial Edition of Tender...
The Modern Language Association’s Committee on Scholarly Editions just awarded Tender Buttons: The Corrected Centennial Edition its seal designating it an MLA Approved Edition. Congratulations to...
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LIVE at City Lights! Book Party for Dia Felix!
We were proud to celebrate the release of Nochita by Dia Felix here at City Lights! Nochita is the latest novel in the City Lights/Sister Spit series, edited by Michelle Tea! Enjoy this night of...
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Author Dia Felix Discussing Her New Novel Nochita at City Lights
We were proud to talk to Dia Felix about her debut novel, Nochita. She discussed how her childhood molded the narrative and also about her collaborations with the Sister Spit group. Nochita is the...
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Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay discusses her new book, Bad Feminist, at City Lights Book Store. Bad Feminist is a collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism from one of the most-watched young cultural...
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Women In Public Book Party
City Lights celebrated the release of Women In Public, No. 13 in the City Lights Spotlight Poetry Series, on March 10, 2015 where Elaine Kahn was joined by Ali Warren, author of Here Comes the Warm...
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Interview with Elaine Kahn
Elaine Kahn discusses her new book, Women in Public, and reads two poems in an interview with City Lights. In Women in Public, the debut full-length collection by poet/musician Elaine Kahn, personal...
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Rad American Women A to Z Book Party!
City Lights, Radar Productions, Mutha Magazine, and Raising a Reader Bay Area were thrilled to celebrate the publication of their first kid’s book on March 28, 2015 at City Lights Bookstore. Author...
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Amber Tamblyn
Amber Tamblyn discusses her new book, Dark Sparkler, introduced by Jack Hirschman live at City Lights. from Harper-Perennial The lives of more than twenty-five actresses lost before their time—from...
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Emily Schultz
Emily Schultz reads from her new book The Blondes with special appearances by Joyland Magazine alumni Ruth Galm and Rachel Khong. During a still hot autumn in New York City, a rabies-like illness...
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PEACHES
http://www.citylightspodcast.com/episodes/PEACHES_052015.mp3 | Open Player in New Window PEACHES, joined by Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens in conversation, celebrates the release of What Else Is in...
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An Interview with City Lights/Sister Spit Editor Michelle Tea
Michelle Tea, co-founder of the literary roadshow Sister Spit and editor of the new City Lights/Sister Spit imprint, sat down with City Lights staffer Jolene Torr to discuss the inaugural book in the...
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Chris Kraus celebrates Summer of Hate at City Lights Bookstore
Chris Kraus came to City Lights Bookstore to celebrate the release of Summer of Hate (Semiotext(e) Books). Waking up from the chilling high of a dangerous sex game, art world insider Catt Dunlop...
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Susan Steinberg reading from her new fiction collection Spectacle
On January 16, 2013, Susan Steinberg came to City Lights Bookstore to celebrate the release of her new fiction collection Spectacle: Stories (Graywolf Press). From the innovative author of Hydroplane...
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An Interview with Ali Liebegott, Author of “Cha-Ching!” and “The Beautifully...
Last week, author Ali Liebegott came into City Lights to chat with City Lights Publicity Associate, Jolene Torr, about her newest books Cha-Ching! and The Beautifully Worthless (both published by City...
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An evening in solidarity with PUSSY RIOT!
City Lights and The Feminist Press present An evening in solidarity with PUSSY RIOT! celebrating the release of the new book: Pussy Riot! A Punk Prayer for Freedom (The Feminist Press). Readings,...
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Arthur Kroker discussing Body Drift
On December 5, 2012, Arthur Kroker came to City Lights Bookstore to discuss his new book, Body Drift: Butler Hayles Haraway (University of Minnesota Press). Philosopher, cultural critic, educator, and...
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Sister Spit takes City Lights by Storm
On Wednesday, October 24, 2012, City Lights Bookstore celebrated the release of Sister Spit: Writing, Rants and Reminiscence from the Road (City Lights Books), hosted by Michelle Tea. Featuring...
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Yokohama Threeway: An Interview with Beth Lisick
Writer, performer and independent film actress, Beth Lisick has made a career of opening her life to her readers in all of its messy, smart hilarity, but the stories in Yokohama Threeway and Other...
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Tender Buttons: A Gertrude Stein Celebration
On Wednesday, April 23 at the San Francisco Public Library, Main Branch, editor Seth Perlow, poet and scholar Juliana Spahr, biographer Renate Stendahl and poet and author Michelle Tea discussed City...
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Jewelle Gomez
http://www.citylightspodcast.com/episodes/JewelleGomez_041316.mp3 | Open Player in New Window Award-winning author Jewelle Gomez returns to City Lights in honor of the Expanded 25th Anniversary Edition...
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Nayomi Munaweera Returns
http://www.citylightspodcast.com/episodes/NayomiMunaweera_021816.mp3 | Open Player in New Window In celebration of her second novel, What Lies Between Us (from St. Martins Press), author Nayomi...
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Donna J. Haraway
City Lights Bookstore welcomes Donna J. Haraway in discussing the subject of her new book, Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene from Duke University Press. In the midst of spiraling...
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Exist Otherwise: The Life and Works of Claude Cahun
City Lights welcomes Jennifer L. Shaw in conversation with Kit Schluter discussing the subject of the new book published by Reaktion Books Exist Otherwise: The Life and Works of Claude Cahun by...
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Zoe Quinn
Zoe Quinn discussing her book Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate from Public Affairs Books with special guest Anita Sarkeesian....
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Barbara Jane Reyes 2
Barbara Jane Reyes celebrating the release of her new poetry collection, City Lights Spotlight Series No. 16, Invocation To Daughters. David Brazil opens the reading with poems from his book in the...
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Joyce Carol Oates 4
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...
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Go Home! Book Release with Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Rachel Khong, Beth Nguyen,...
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...
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Carmen Giménez Smith
Carmen Giménez Smith celebrating the release of Cruel Futures, City Lights Spotlight Series No. 17. Opening reading by Barbara Jane Reyes. Introduction by series editor, Garrett Caples Cruel Futures,...
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Gabriela Alemán with Mauro Javier Cardenas and Dick Cluster
City Lights presents Gabriela Alemán, speaking alongside special guests Mauro Javier Cardenas and Dick Cluster to celebrate the release of her newest book Poso Wells. Opening statement by City Lights...
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Léonora Miano
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...
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John Freeman, Jaime Cortez, and Rebecca Solnit
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...
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