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5 Questions with Carmen Boullosa
Today’s 5 Questions features one of Mexico’s leading novelists, Carmen Boullosa, whose work has been lauded on several continents. The late Roberto Bolaño has referred to Boullosa as “Mexico’s best...
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Twenty Prose Poems by Baudelaire and The Unknown Poe
A curious fact about American literary history is that Edgar Allan Poe‘s works became popular throughout Europe long before anyone in the states recognized Poe’s talent. This recognition was largely...
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5 Questions with Caryl Phillips
This week we are pleased to have novelist Caryl Phillips visiting City Lights Bookstore this Wednesday. He’ll be reading from his new book, The Lost Child: A Novel (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux), and...
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5 Questions with Ryan Gattis
At City Lights Books this Wednesday, Ryan Gattis will be reading from his acclaimed new novel All Involved (Ecco). He answers our 5 questions are below. Event: Wednesday, April 15 @ 7PM at City Lights...
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5 Questions with Eli Horowitz
This Tuesday we welcome Eli Horowitz back to City Lights Books, this time to discuss and read from his new novel, The New World (from FSG and co-authored with Chris Adrian). His answers to our 5...
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5 Questions with Viet Thanh Nguyen
This Thursday City Lights Bookstore welcomes Viet Thanh Nguyen, who will be reading from his acclaimed debut novel, The Sympathizer, a book T.C. Boyle says is “destined to become a classic.” Viet took...
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5 Questions with Jim Nisbet
We are proud to have Jim Nisbet back at City Lights this Thursday. It will be a celebration of the paperback release of Nisbet’s latest book of masterful, hard-boiled fiction, The Price of the Ticket...
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5 Questions with Emily Schultz
We are proud to welcome this Wednesday to City Lights Bookstore Emily Schultz, author of the acclaimed The Blondes: A Novel (from Thomas Dunne Books). Schultz’s new work has been praised by the likes...
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Rebecca Brown Interviewed on MOSS
Northwestern Queer-lit extraordinaire and author of 7 City Lights books, Rebecca Brown, has been working in Seattle since the 80’s (and rent was under $500). Since then she has made her presence in the...
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Bay Area Author, Joshua Mohr, reads from All This Life
Phoenix to SF Mission transplant Joshua Mohr has a bone to pick with tech. His book All This Life released 7/14/15 through Soft Skull, an imprint of Counterpoint Press, follows the trajectory of seven...
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Events at City Lights Bookstore, September 2015
Our Fall event season at City Lights Bookstore kicks off this September. As always, there is a mixture of fiction and poetry, noir and nonfiction, local authors and visitors on their nationwide book...
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Subterranean SF: Hard-boiled Writing with an Edge Turns Five
The Subterranean SF “speakeasy style” reading series turn 5 years old this year – City Lights interviewed Peter Maravelis, City Lights events director and founder of the series, about its mysterious...
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5 Questions with Vu Tran
City Lights is excited to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the Subterranean SF Reading Series with Vu Tran, author of Dragonfish: A Novel (published by W.W. Norton). Vu took some time to answer our 5...
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5 Questions with Everyone Has Their Reasons Author Joseph Matthews
Our Fall event season rolls on this Tuesday, as City Lights welcomes Joseph Matthews who will be reading from his new novel, Everyone Has Their Reasons (PM Press). Joseph took the time to answer our 5...
View ArticleJewelle Gomez Reads “U Is for Ursula K. Le Guin” from Rad American Women A-Z
This week for the “Rad Women Read Rad American Women A-Z” series, Jewelle Gomez talks lesbian vampire erotica and being unafraid to make yourself the center of your own universe. Jewelle chose to read...
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5 Questions with John Freeman, Editor of Freeman’s Journal
5 Questions, where we peer into the very souls of visiting authors to City Lights Bookstore, continues today with John Freeman who is here tonight celebrating the first issue of his new literary...
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5 Questions with Matt Bell, Author of Scrapper
We round out a big week of events at City Lights with the return of author Matt Bell to our bookstore. He’ll be reading from his new novel, Scrapper, published by Soho Press. Event: Thursday, October...
View ArticleRad Women Read Rad American Women A-Z: MariNaomi Reads “M Is for Maya Lin”
This week we got to hang out with the very cool, very funny artist and graphic novelist MariNaomi at City Lights for our Rad Women Read from Rad American Women A-Z series. Watch to find out how Maya...
View ArticleRad Women Read Rad American Women A-Z: Shanthi Sekaran Reads “B Is for Billie...
Author Shanthi Sekharan came to the publishing offices to read about Billie Jean King, one of the best tennis players of all time with 39 Grand Slam titles. In this reading, however, Shanthi emphasizes...
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5 Questions with Sara Majka, Author of Cities I’ve Never Lived In
On February 25th, authors Sara Majka and Naomi Williams are in conversation with Yiyun Li at City Lights Bookstore. Majka and Williams are both celebrating the release of their new books. Majka is the...
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