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- West Fest 40th Anniversary of ...
San Francisco, CA: Golden Gate Park
Sunday, October 25 at 9:00am - Dine and Spill
Banff Calgary International Writers...
Sunday, October 18 at 12:00pm - Bookparty for "A Bomb in Every...
Vesuvio Cafe
Wednesday, September 23 at 7:00pm - Book Party for American Romanc...
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Tuesday, September 22 at 7:30pm - Paul Krassner at Skylight Book...
1818 N. Vermont Ave. L.A., CA
Tuesday, September 15 at 7:30pm - Tommi Avicolli Mecca at Pegasu...
Pegasus Books Downtown
Thursday, August 20 at 7:30pm - Tommi Avicolli Mecca and Gay L...
Books Inc. (Castro)
Friday, July 24 at 7:30pm - Censoring You: The Limits of W...
Blue Room, The Commonwealth Club
Thursday, July 16 at 6:30pm - Paul Krassner at City Lights i...
City Lights Bookstore
Wednesday, July 15 at 7:00pm - A Book Party for Rebecca Brown!
Bailey Coy Books
Thursday, July 9 at 7:00pm
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- The price of normal: Who, exactly, does gay marriage benefit? 2:29pm Jun 25
- Smash the Church, Smash the State is HOT off the Press! 2:11pm Jun 25
- Rethinking Oprah and her legacy 12:34pm Jun 25
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi at City Lights on Tuesday, 7pm!
Wherever There's a Fight, How Runaway Slaves, Suffragists, Immigrants, Strikers and Poets Shaped Civ
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Wherever There's a Fight captures the sweeping story of how freedom and equality have grown in California, from the gold rush right up to the precarious post-9/11 era. The book tells the stories of the brave individuals who have stood up for their...
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers Congratulations to Sesshu Foster on winning the Asian American Writers Workshop's Poetry award for World Ball Notebook (http://bit.ly/3y4ohg)! Award presentation and Cocktail Reception the Powerhouse Arena in NY on 11/14, 6pm.
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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers New Jack Kerouac documentary "One Fast Move" . . . have you seen it yet? What did you think? Let us know . . . comes out in DVD land tomorrow.
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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers Kevin Killian, author of Impossible Princess, reads at Michelle Tea's Radar Reading Series tomorrow night! SF Main Library. 6pm FREE!
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Impossible Princess. Impossible Princess is a book John Rechy's or Dennis Cooper's characters would read
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers If he hadn't become a writer, Thomas Glave would have been an architect: http://bit.ly/2vnK9m
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The Torturer's Wife. Profound portraits of the traumas of war, the ravages of homophobia, and the triumph of desire.
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers Hal takes status updates to the next level by calling friends to tell them he's making a sandwich. The results:
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Last week, director Sally brought the film crew over the house to film a scene she’d come up with. The plan was to record me making a sandwich. No big deal
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers Tomorrow: An Evening with Bruce Benderson, Kevin Killian, & Dodie Bellamy @ SF Camerawork in the Mission, 6:30 pm. Should be a good one! More details here: http://bit.ly/1NKVIN
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Impossible Princess. Impossible Princess is a book John Rechy's or Dennis Cooper's characters would read
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers Top 10 Arts Books of the Year, Booklist: SHOOT AN IRAQI by Wafaa Bilal. "A staggering memoir by immigrant Iraqi artist Bilal, who staged a performance piece, during which online participants used a computer-controlled paintball gun to 'shoot an Iraqi.'"
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Shoot An Iraqi. An award-winning Iraqi artist's life story and the impact of his highly provocative interactive art piece
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers San Francisco! Ferlinghetti opening at Krevsky Gallery TONIGHT! 5:30 - 7:30pm
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George Krevsky Gallery represents contemporary artists including Lawrence Ferlinghetti, .
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers "Invading armies have no rights, they have responsibilities"- Noam Chomsky on the war in Afghanistan. Watch his interview on the BBC: http://bit.ly/3qjwcm
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers Howard Zinn on Air America today: "We have to decide not to be a military superpower."
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Jack Kerouac and Don Draper separated at birth? I think so.
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Good Blonde. In these uncollected writings Jack Kerouac portrays himself in his life. He hitches a ride to San Francisco with a blonde, goes on the road with photographer Robert Frank, rides bus through the Northwest and Montana, records the blues of an old Negro...
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers City Lights recommends that you read "The Adderall Diaries" by Stephen Elliott
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A listing of current favorites, recommended by the bookstore staff. Check back for new recommendations each month as we bring you the best of what we're reading. Browse by title, author or staff member!
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Our customers have good taste.
CITY LIGHTS BOOKSTORE BESTSELLERS (HARDCOVERS) IN OCTOBER
1. Poetry as Insurgent Art by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (New Directions)
2. War Dances: Stories by Sherman Alexie (Grove)
3. The Beats: A Graphic History by Harvey Pekar (FSG)
4. Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne (Penguin/Viking)
5. You're A Ge...nius All the Time by Jack Kerouac (Chronicle)
6. Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon (Harper Collins)
7. 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School by Matthew Frederick (MIT)
8. Thelonious Monk by Robin Kelley (Simon/Free Press)
9. Street Art San Francisco by Annice Jacoby (Abrams)
10. Zeitoun by Dave Eggers (McSweeney's)
CITY LIGHTS BOOKSTORE BESTSELLERS (PAPERBACKS) IN OCTOBER
1. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami (Random/Knopf)
2. Bang Ditto by Amber Tamblyn (Manic D)
3. Shoplifting from American Apparel by Tao Lin (Melville House)
4. Best American Non-required Reading edited by Dave Eggers (Houghton Mifflin)
5. Beauty Salon by Mario Bellatin (City Lights)
6. 2666 by Roberto Bolano (St Martin's)
7. A Mercy by Toni Morrison (Random/Knopf)
8. The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell (Prenguin/Riverhead)
9. Alive in Necropolis by Doug Dorst (Penguin/Riverhead)
10. The Awakener by Helen Weaver (City Lights)Read More
CITY LIGHTS BOOKSTORE BESTSELLERS (HARDCOVERS) IN OCTOBER
1. Poetry as Insurgent Art by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (New Directions)
2. War Dances: Stories by Sherman Alexie (Grove)
3. The Beats: A Graphic History by Harvey Pekar (FSG)
4. Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne (Penguin/Viking)
5. You're A Ge...nius All the Time by Jack Kerouac (Chronicle)
6. Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon (Harper Collins)
7. 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School by Matthew Frederick (MIT)
8. Thelonious Monk by Robin Kelley (Simon/Free Press)
9. Street Art San Francisco by Annice Jacoby (Abrams)
10. Zeitoun by Dave Eggers (McSweeney's)
CITY LIGHTS BOOKSTORE BESTSELLERS (PAPERBACKS) IN OCTOBER
1. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami (Random/Knopf)
2. Bang Ditto by Amber Tamblyn (Manic D)
3. Shoplifting from American Apparel by Tao Lin (Melville House)
4. Best American Non-required Reading edited by Dave Eggers (Houghton Mifflin)
5. Beauty Salon by Mario Bellatin (City Lights)
6. 2666 by Roberto Bolano (St Martin's)
7. A Mercy by Toni Morrison (Random/Knopf)
8. The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell (Prenguin/Riverhead)
9. Alive in Necropolis by Doug Dorst (Penguin/Riverhead)
10. The Awakener by Helen Weaver (City Lights)Read More
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A literary meeting place since 1953, City Lights is a landmark general bookstore, internationally known for its expert selection of books and for its commitment to free intellectual inquiry. Here you can ...
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers Part 2 of Letter to a Young Poet (Anselm Berrigan) http://bit.ly/44hX0
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Free Cell. The second volume in the City Lights Spotlight series—experimental poems by innovative New York poet and former St. Mark's Poetry Project director
