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LIVE! From City Lights
by LIVE! From City Lights
The official podcast for City Lights Publishers & Booksellers in San Francisco. Featuring readings and archives. Hosted by City Lights events coordinator Peter Maravelis.
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Molly Crabapple in conversation with Sam Sax
City Lights celebrates the publication of Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund - by Molly Crabapple, published by One World. You can purchase copies Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund here:...
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Khiara M. Bridges in conversation with Jyesha Wren
City Lights and The MIT Press celebrate the publication of Expecting Inequity: How the Maternal Health Crisis Affects Even the Wealthiest Black Americans – by Khiara M. Bridges, published by The MIT Press. You can purchase copies of Expecting Inequity: How the Maternal Health Crisis Affects Even...
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Launch Party for “Memory Rehearsal”: Eleni Sikelianos in conversation with Matthew Zapruder
Launch Party for “Memory Rehearsal”: Eleni Sikelianos in conversation with Matthew Zapruder by LIVE! From City Lights
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Antonio Moresco tribute with Max Lawton & Sean Thor Conroe
City Lights, the Center For The Art Of Translation and Deep Vellum Books celebrate the publication of The Beginnings – by Antonio Moresco, translated by Max Lawton, published by Deep Vellum. Originally held onsite at City Lights broadcast via Zoom on Monday, April 6, 2026. Hosted by Peter...
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Wayne Koestenbaum in conversation with Tausif Noor
City Lights and FSG Originals celebrate the publication of My Lover, the Rabbi: A Novel – by Wayne Koestenbaum, published by FSG Originals. You can purchase copies of My Lover, the Rabbi: A Novel here: https://citylights.com/general-fiction/my-lover-the-rabbi/ Originally broadcast via Zoom on...
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Dean Rader with Matthew Zapruder
Two acclaimed and beloved poets read from new work! Dean Rader celebrates Notes (The Economy Press), and Matthew Zapruder celebrates How To Continue (The Economy Press). Originally held onsite at City Lights broadcast via Zoom on Thursday, March 26, 2026. Hosted by Peter Maravelis.Made possible…
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Camille T. Dungy in conversation with Tonya M. Foster
City Lights, SFSU Poetry Center, and Wesleyan University Press celebrate the publication of America, A Love Story by Camille T. Dungy, published by Wesleyan University Press. You can purchase copies of America, A Love Story here: https://citylights.com/amer-a-love-story/ Originally broadcast via...
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Marc Francis in conversation with Jesse Ataide
City Lights and Duke University Press celebrate the publication of Curating Deviance: Programming the Queer Film Canon by Marc Francis, published by Duke University Press. You can purchase copies of Curating Deviance: Programming the Queer Film Canon here…
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Unsung Heroines: 35 Women Who Changed the Bay Area
Rae Alexandra and Adrienne Simms celebrate their new book Unsung Heroines: 35 Women Who Changed the Bay Area, published by City Lights. You can purchase copies of Unsung Heroines: 35 Women Who Changed the Bay Area here: https://citylights.com/unsung-heroines35-women-who-changed/ Originally held...
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Jasmin ‘Iolani Hakes in conversation with Susan Kiyo Ito
Jasmin ‘Iolani Hakes reads from her new novel The Pōhaku, published by HarperVia. You can purchase copies of The Pōhaku here: https://citylights.com/pohaku/ Originally held onsite at City Lights and broadcast via Zoom on Thursday, February 12, 2026. Hosted by Peter Maravelis. Made possible by...
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Gil Z. Hochberg in conversation with Alysia Abbott
City Lights and Duke University Press celebrate the publication of My Father, the Messiah: A Memoir – by Gil Z. Hochberg, published by Duke University Press. You can purchase copies of My Father, the Messiah: A Memoir here: https://citylights.com/my-father-the-messiah/ Originally broadcast via…
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John Sayles discussing Crucible
City Lights and Melville House Books celebrate the publication of Crucible – By John Sayles, published by Melville House. You can purchase copies of Crucible here: https://citylights.com/new-fiction-in-hardcover/crucible-3/ Originally held on site and broadcast via Zoom on Wednesday, January 21,...
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El Martillo Press at City Lights
Readings and conversation with Tshaka Campbell, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Paul S. Flores, Margaret Elysia Garcia, and Briana Muñoz, as City Lights celebrates an exceptional indie press. Founded by Matt Sedillo and David A. Romero, El Martillo Press publishes writers whose pens strike the page with…
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Project Censored, State of The Free Press 2026
City Lights, Project Censored, and Seven Stories Press celebrate the publication of State of The Press 2026 – Edited by Mickey Huff, Shealeigh Voitl, and Andy Lee Roth, published by The Censored Press. You can purchase copies of State of the Free Press 2026 at project-censored.org Originally...
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BLIND PERSISTENCE: The History of the Before Columbus Foundation
Baraka Books, the Before Columbus Foundation, and City Lights celebrate the publication of BLIND PERSISTENCE: The History of the Before Columbus Foundation – Edited by Ishmael Reed and Justin Desmangles (with Carla Blank and Tennessee Reed), published by Baraka Books. You can purchase copies of...
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Anne Waldman discussing Mesopotopia
City Lights and the Penguin Poets Series celebrate the publication of Mesopotopia – By Anne Waldman, published by Penguin Books. You can purchase copies of Mesopotopia here: https://citylights.com/mesopotopia/ Originally held at City Lights and broadcast via Zoom on Thursday, December 4, 2025....
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Roddy Bottum in conversation with Brontez Purnell
City Lights and Akashic Books celebrate the publication of The Royal We – by Roddy Bottum, published by Akashic Books. You can purchase copies of The Royal We here: https://citylights.com/royal-we/ Originally held at City Lights and broadcast via Zoom on Thursday, November 20, 2025. Hosted by…
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devorah major discussing “Word Time”
City Lights celebrates the publication of Word Time – by devorah major, published by City Lights Books. You can purchase copies of Word Time here:https://citylights.com/general-poetry/word-time/ Originally held at City Lights and broadcast via Zoom on Thursday, November 7, 2025. Hosted by Peter...
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Suzette Partido discussing “Love Will Save Us, Right?”
Suzette Partido discussing “Love Will Save Us, Right?” by LIVE! From City Lights
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Daniela Rea in conversation with John Gibler
City Lights celebrates the publication of Fruto: Bearing the Burden of Care – by Daniela Rea – Translator: John Gibler – published by City Lights Books. You can purchase copies of Fruto: Bearing the Burden of Care here: https://citylights.com/fruto-bearing-the-burden-of-care/ Originally held at...
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Gabriela Cabezón Cámara in conversation with Achy Obejas
City Lights and Litquake celebrate the publication of We Are Green and Trembling – by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, published by New Directions. You can purchase copies of We Are Green and Trembling from City Lights here: https://citylights.com/we-are-green-trembling/ Originally held at City Lights…
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Joshua Clark Davis in conversation with Daphne Muse.wav
Description: City Lights and Princeton University Press celebrate the publication of Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back – By Joshua Clark Davis – Published by Princeton University Press. You can purchase copies of Police…
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Amanda Uhle in conversation with Vendela Vida
City Lights and Summit Books present Amanda Uhle in conversation with Vendela Vida, celebrating the publication of her memoir Destroy This House, published by Summit Books/Simon & Schuster. You can purchase copies of Destroy This House directly from City Lights here:...
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Gabriela Aleman in conversation with Dick Cluster
City Lights and the Center for the Art of Translation present Gabriela Alemán in conversation with Dick Cluster, celebrating the publication of her new book Smoke, published by City Lights Books. You can purchase copies of Smoke directly from City Lights here:...
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Will Potter discussing Little Red Barns
City Lights presents award-winning investigative journalist Will Potter discussing his new book Little Red Barns: Hiding the Truth, from Farm to Fable, published by City Lights Books. You can purchase copies of Little Red Barns directly from City Lights here:...
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Inés Hernández-Ávila and Molly McGlennen in conversation with Casandra López
City Lights celebrates the publication of Indigenous Poetics, edited by Inés Hernández-Ávila and Molly McGlennen, published by Michigan State University Press. You can purchase copies of Indigenous Poetics directly from City Lights here:...
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Mosab Abu Toha reading from "Forest of Noise: Poems"
Mosab Abu Toha reading from “Forest of Noise: Poems” by Mosab Abu Toha, published by Knopf Publishing Group You can purchase copies of “Forest of Noise: Poems” directly from City Lights here: https://citylights.com/forest-of-noise-poems/ Originally broadcast via Zoom on Monday, November 4, 2024....
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Daniel Borzutzky in conversation with Ricardo Alberto Maldonado
Daniel Borzutzky in conversation with Ricardo Alberto Maldonado, celebrating the publication of "The Murmuring Grief of the Americas" by Daniel Borzutzky, published by Coffee House Press You can purchase copies of "The Murmuring Grief of the Americas" directly from City Lights here:...
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Bushra Rehman in conversation with May-lee Chai
Bushra Rehman in conversation with May-lee Chai, celebrating the publication of "Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion" by Bushra Rehman, published by Flatiron Books. You can purchase copies of "Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion" directly from City Lights here:...
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Chukwuebuka Ibeh in conversation with francesca ekwuyasi
City Lights celebrates the publication of "Blessings," a novel by Chukwuebuka Ibeh, published by Doubleday. Purchase here: https://citylights.com/blessings/ Obiefuna has always been the black sheep of his family—sensitive where his father, Anozie, is pragmatic, a dancer where his brother, Ekene…
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Tarek El-Ariss
Tarek El-Ariss in conversation with Peter Maravelis, celebrating the publication of "Water on Fire: A Memoir of War" by Tarek El-Ariss, published by Other Press. Purchase here: https://citylights.com/middle-east/water-on-fire-memoir-of-war/ "Water on Fire" tells a story of immigration that starts...
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Yanis Varoufakis
City Lights and Melville House present Yanis Varoufakis in conversation with Peter Maravelis, discussing "Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism" by Yanis Varoufakis, published by Melville House. Purchase here: https://citylights.com/topographies/technofeudalism/ Perhaps we were too distracted…
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Joyce Carol Oates in conversation with Steve Wasserman
City Lights and Akashic Books celebrate the publication of "Joyce Carol Oates: Letters to a Biographer," edited by Greg Johnson, published by Akashic Books. Purchase here: https://citylights.com/new-nonfiction-in-hardcover/joyce-carol-oates-letters-to-a-biograp/ This rich compilation of Joyce…
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Jakuta Alikavazovic in conversation with JiaJing Liu
City Lights, Fern Books, Center for the Art of Translation, & Villa Albertine San Francisco celebrate the publication of "Like a Sky Inside" by Jakuta Alikavazovic – translated from the French by Daniel Levin Becker, published by Fern Books. Purchase here:...
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Ana Raquel Minian in conversation with Irma Herrera
Ana Raquel Minian in conversation with Irma Herrera discussing Minian's, "In the Shadow of Liberty: The Invisible History of Immigrant Detention in the United States," published by Viking. Purchase here: https://citylights.com/new-nonfiction-in-hardcover/in-the-shadow-of-liberty-immigrant-det/ In...
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Greg Sarris In Conversation with Blaise Zerega
City Lights, ALTA Journal, & Heyday Books celebrate the publication of "The Forgetters: Stories" by Greg Sarris (Heyday Books). Purchase books by Greg Sarris here: https://citylights.com/?search_type=author&s=Greg+Sarris Celebrated storyteller & tribal leader Greg Sarris offers a contemplative &...
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Wayne Koestenbaum with Tausif Noor
City Lights & Semiotext(e) celebrate the publication of "Stubble Archipelago" by Wayne Koestenbaum with a conversation between the author & Tausif Noor. Purchase here: https://citylights.com/stubble-archipelago/ Wild new adventures in word-infatuated flânerie from a celebrated literary…
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Judith Butler with Maggie Nelson
Judith Butler discusses their new book "Who’s Afraid of Gender?" published by Farrar Straus Giroux. Named a "Most Anticipated Book of 2024" by Time, Elle, Kirkus, Literary Hub, The Millions, & Electric Literature. Purchase book here: https://citylights.com/whos-afraid-of-gender/ Judith Butler…
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Kit Schluter with Garrett Caples
Kit Schluter celebrates the publication of "Cartoons," (City Lights) & Garrett Caples celebrates the publication of "Proses: Incomparable Parables! Fabulous Fables! Cruel Tales!" (Wave Books). Purchase "Cartoons:" https://citylights.com/city-lights-published/cartoons/ Purchase "Proses:"...
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Gil Cuadros Tribute and Book Launch
Celebrate Gil Cuadros with Kevin Martin, Rafael Pérez-Torres, & Amy Scholder. Opening by Greyson Wright & readings by Joseph Cassara & Flavia Elisa Mora. City Lights & the SF LGBT Center celebrate the publication of "My Body Is Paper: Stories and Poems" by Gil Cuadros, edited by Pablo Alvarez,...
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Jordan Elgrably with Sarah AlKahly-Mills
Jordan Elgrably in conversation with Sarah AlKahly-Mills, with readings from both authors. City Lights celebrates the publication of "Stories from the Center of the World: New Middle East Fiction," edited by Jordan Elgrably, published by City Lights Books. You can purchase copies directly from…
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Roberto Harrison With Julien Poirier
City Lights celebrates No.23 in the "Spotlight Poetry Series" Roberto Harrison reads from his work. Introduction by Garrett Caples. Julien Poirier will also be reading from his work. In person event held in City Lights' Poetry Room, hosted by Peter Maravelis. Purchase "Isthmus to Abya Yala" By...
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Bill Ong Hing
City Lights LIVE, Beacon Press, and Refugee Immigrant Transitions celebrate the publication of “Humanizing Immigration: How to Transform Our Racist and Unjust System” by Bill Ong Hing, published by Beacon Press. “Humanizing Immigration” is the first book to argue that immigrant and refugee rights...
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Myriam Gurba
City Lights LIVE! presents Myriam Gurba in conversation with visual artist MariNaomi to celebrate the release of Gurba’s new book “Creep: Accusations and Confessions,” published by Simon and Schuster. A ruthless and razor-sharp essay collection that tackles the pervasive, creeping oppression and...
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Benjamin Weber & Christopher Paul Harris
City Lights LIVE, The New Press, and Princeton University Press celebrate the publication of two new books: “America Purgatory: Prison Imperialism and the Rise of Mass Incarceration” by Benjamin Weber, published by The New Press, and "To Build a Black Future: The Radical Politics of Joy, Pain…
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Found In Translation: Adventures in Language
City Lights LIVE! presents "Found in Translation: Adventures in Language." As part of its 70th Anniversary programming, City Lights celebrates literature in translation with a discussion moderated by Olivia E. Sears, featuring Gabriela Alemán, Dick Cluster, Gillian Conoloy, Elaine Katzenberger,...
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Lynn Lewis and Friends
City Lights LIVE! celebrates the publication of “Women Who Change the World: Stories from the Fight for Social Justice” from City Lights Books, edited by Lynn Lewis, with a conversation between the editor and contributors Hilary Moore and Malkia Devich-Cyril. – Edited by Lynn Lewis – published by...
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Insurgent Beautitudes: The History of a Cultural Center
City Lights LIVE! presents "Insurgent Beatitudes: The History of a Cultural Center,” a conversation between Elaine Katzenberger, Amy Scholder, and Paul Yamazaki, moderated by David L. Ulin. Continuing its 70th anniversary celebratory programming, City Lights Books brings together those who are at...
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mimi tempestt
City Lights LIVE celebrates the publication of “the delicacy of embracing spirals” by mimi tempestt, published by City Lights, with a conversation between the poet and Truong Tran. Incendiary, lyrical poems of liberations from the phantasm of Black womanhood. Wedding fierce, jagged lines to an...
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John Freeman and Friends
City Lights LIVE and Litquake celebrate the final issue of John Freeman’s distinguished journal “Freeman’s: Conclusions,” published by Grove Atlantic, with John Freeman, joined by Jaime Cortez, Elaine Castillo, and Oscar Villaon. Over the course of ten years, “Freeman’s" has introduced the...
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