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November 25 at 10:21am
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::: Happy Thanksgiving from the Woodstock Mountain Poetry Revolution & Shivastan Press! :::
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Notes From The Future Past: Sesshu Foster Reads From His Work
In this episode, poet Sesshu Foster reads from his eclectic World Ball Notebook, recorded at City Lights on April 29, 2009. The first team sport in human history was played with a ball made of stone, on courts that have been found from the Mayan ruins o...f Central America to Arizona. Thus we ...

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November 25 at 5:16am
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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers Paul Krassner for Satirist-Laureate!

The Rag Blog: Paul Krassner : In Praise of Indecency
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/ The Rag Blog / November 24, 2009It’s time our national government at last enshrines its most critical artistic need, that of “Satirist-Laureate.” The first nod must go to the man who ...
November 24 at 5:02pm
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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers BOOKS: THE ORIGINAL PORTABLE READING DEVICES Good one. Header on an ad from Indiana Unv. Press.

November 24 at 1:50pm
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Right above this post on my News Feed is someone shilling for Amazon's "Kindle." Does that qualify as irony?
November 24 at 4:06pm
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November 24 at 4:23pm
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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers Look for it at City Lights on Dec. 8!

Panorama seeks to expand reach of newspapers
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A small group of young writers and artists who work out of the back of a stationery shop in the Mission District - and are dedicated to preserving the printed word - have turned their attention to "old" media: the newspaper.
November 24 at 12:06pm
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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers Jeffrey Haas discusses the assassination of Panther Fred Hampton, next Tuesday, Dec 1, 7pm at City Lights. Free!

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The Assassination of Fred Hampton is Jeffrey Haas's personal account of how he and People's Law Office partner Flint Taylor pursued Fred Hampton's assassins, ultimately prevailing over unlimited government resources and FBI conspiracy. ...
November 24 at 11:03am
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Randi
I wish it were also at Barnes and Nobles in NYC..!!!!!!!
November 24 at 8:53pm
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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers Lisa Gray-Garcia, a Visionary, recognized by Utne Reader http://bit.ly/Nqaj0

Criminal of Poverty, Growing Up Homeless in America
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Criminal of Poverty. A daughter’s struggle to keep her family alive, through poverty, homelessness and incarceration.
November 24 at 10:59am
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John Oliver travels to a NYC bookstore as it braces for the release of Sarah Palin's memoir. Airdate - 11/18/2009
November 24 at 10:56am
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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers New Podcast!

Notes From The Future Past: Sesshu Foster Reads From His Work
In this episode, poet Sesshu Foster reads from his eclectic World Ball Notebook, recorded at City Lights on April 29, 2009. The first team sport in human history was played with a ball made of stone, on courts that have been found from the Mayan ruins of Central America to Arizona. Thus we find a soccer [...]
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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers Suddenly our tiny and rather barren living room was teeming with life. The studious-looking one in the horn-rimmed glasses with the dark curly hair, whom Helen introduced to me as Allen Ginsberg, was obviously the leader. He introduced in turn the beautiful young man with the sad Russian face as his lover, Peter Orlovs...ky; Peter’s tall, silent brother, Lafcadio; and the not very tall but dark and absurdly handsome one, Jack Kerouac. . . .

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Table of Contents & Prologue from The Awakener: A Memoir of Kerouac and the Fifties by Helen Weaver
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November 23 at 4:57pm
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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers David Hilliard talks about Huey Newton's legacy on KPFA's morning show today: http://bit.ly/7yxTMP (starting at 1hr:9min)

To Die for the People
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To Die for the People. A fascinating, first-person account of a historic era in the struggle for black empowerment in America
November 23 at 3:19pm
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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers Zoe Heller and Vendela Vida converse in SF, Weds Dec 2nd, City Arts

City Arts & Lectures
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Zoë Heller is the British author of three novels, Everything You Know, What Was She Thinking: Notes on a Scandal, and, most recently, The Believers. The 2006 film version of Notes on a Scandal starred ...
November 23 at 12:44pm
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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers Anselm Berrigan considers poets, portals, two poles of wheat while in the waiting room . . . http://bit.ly/86K2VF

Free Cell
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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
November 23 at 12:43pm
Randi
Randi
what is the relationship between Anselm and Ted Berrigan?
November 23 at 6:54pm
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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers
Anselm is his son.
November 24 at 11:07am
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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers Did you attend any of the Naked Lunch 50th anniv events this weekend in SF? Tell us about it!

November 23 at 12:38pm
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Harry
Where is that at in Dayton!? Ive gotta head there some time.. im in columbus.
November 24 at 11:33am
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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers
Yes, please, get us the address for the burger/berger joint. Thank you!
November 24 at 5:44pm
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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers Naked Lunch 50th Anniversary Weekend kicks off at 7pm tonight at SFAI Lecture Hall http://bit.ly/1ChIs2

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presentations by Bill Berkson, Diane di Prima, Oliver Harris, Ron Loewinsohn, Jonah Raskin, DJ Spooky, and others, followed by a roundtable discussion.
November 20 at 4:54pm