
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers City Lights thanks YOU, and will see you next year, and tomorrow.

A contest based on The Peep Diaries, by Hal Niedzviecki Hal Niedzviecki starts off The Peep Diaries by noting that Webster's 2008 word of the year was "Overshare." Now the new Oxford American Dictionary has made "Unfriend" the word of 2009...

City Lights Booksellers & Publishers Helen Weaver on the power of collective, positive human thought
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“What if I told you that a thought. . .any tiny idea that forms in your mind. . .actually has mass? What if I told you that a thought is an actual thing, a measurable entity, with measurable mass? A minuscule mass, of course, but mass nonetheless. What are the implications?. . . .

City Lights Booksellers & Publishers Zinn's message to Obama, from a speech given on WW2: "We've always gone somewhere else to fight our wars, so we've not really learned about it's horror..."
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Howard Zinn talks about his new documentary, based on his book A People's History of the United States, called the People Speak. And David Strathairn reads a chilling excerpt from Zinn's Voices of a People's History.

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"The last Bohemian. A
cofounder of City Lights Bookstore. Publisher of Allen Ginsberg's Howl—and defendant in the
obscenity trial that ensued. Author of A
Coney Island of the Mind. His audience treats him like a rock star.
Because he is one." Congrats, LF!
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Fearless, inventive, persistent, beautiful, or just plain badass—here are some of the living authors who shake us awake, challenge our ideas of who we are, embolden our actions, and, above all, inspire us to live life more fully and creatively. ...

City Lights Booksellers & Publishers A unique selection of handmade broadsides available at citylights.com! We especially love the work of Shivastan Publishing, which features broadsides printed on handmade lokta paper from Kathmandu andcelebrates the work of many wonderful poets.
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Signed and numbered limited edition broadside by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. 14 3/4' by 22' with bottom deckel. Rives BFK French mold handmade paper in cream.

City Lights Booksellers & Publishers Donate $5.00 to the Center for the Art of Translation and you could win translator-signed copies of Roberto Bolano’s 2666 and Gunter Grass’s The Tin Drum, plus a copy of the newest Two Lines anthology, Wherever I Lie Is Your Bed.
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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers Win a copy of World Ball Notebook by sending in a psychic question about the secrets of life!
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Sesshu Foster is the unofficial poet laureate of East Los Angeles, but only because such a position refuses officialdom. The author of critically acclaimed novel Atomik Aztex, City Lights also released ...

City Lights Booksellers & Publishers Tonight at City Lights: Ralph Metzner discusses his infamous & revolutionary "experimenting" with Timothy Leary & Ram Dass. 7pm. Be there now.
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An evening of spirited discussion exploring Ralp Metzner's newly released conversational memoir. The Birth of a Psychedelic Culture is an in-depth examination of the legacy of the 1960's by the two ...

City Lights Booksellers & Publishers City Lights wishes that all your holiday parties are hummus free and include at least one person not dressed in black . . .

City Lights Booksellers & Publishers Intimate revelations of Helen Weaver's relationship with Jack Kerouac in this great review in the Chronicle:
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One Sunday morning in 1956, the doorbell rang in a third-floor walkup in Greenwich Village. The occupants of the apartment were two bright, attractive women in their mid-20s, both named Helen. The H's ...

City Lights Booksellers & Publishers Interested in mental states of intensified sensory perception? Tomorrow night at City Lights, Ralph Metzner and friends take you there . . . 7pm.
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An evening of spirited discussion exploring Ralp Metzner's newly released conversational memoir. The Birth of a Psychedelic Culture is an in-depth examination of the legacy of the 1960's by the two ...

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Don't miss Howard Zinn's documentary "The People Speak" this Sunday, Dec. 13 on the History
channel at 8 PM/7 Central
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Everyone famous and liberal lines up to speak from ‘A People's History of the United States.’



















