Ousmane K. Power-Greene reading from The Confessions of Matthew Strong: A Novel published by The Other Press A wildly original, incendiary story about race, redemption, the dangerous imbalances that continue to destabilize society, and speaking out for what’s right. One could argue the story begins the night Allegra Douglass is awarded Distinguished Chair in Philosophy […]

On the eve before the national elections, Mother Jones reporter Becca Andrews reviews the impact of the repeal of Roe v Wade and offers an up-to-date status. City Lights is pleased to spotlight Becca’s new book No Choice: The Destruction of Roe v. Wade and the Fight to Protect a Fundamental American Right published by […]

City Lights celebrates the publication of Lady Director: Adventures in Hollywood, Television and Beyond by Joyce Chopra published by City Lights Books An intimate account of a seminal filmmaker’s development–as a creator and as a woman–both in art and in life. Hailed by the New Yorker as “a crucial forebear of generations,” award-winning director Joyce […]

by Judith Butler published by Columbia University Press The pandemic compels us to ask fundamental questions about our place in the world: the many ways humans rely on one another, how we vitally and sometimes fatally breathe the same air, share the surfaces of the earth, and exist in proximity to other porous creatures in […]

City Lights Books celebrate the publication of “Divine Blue Light (for John Coltrane): Pocket Poets Series No. 63”   From Will Alexander, finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, a new collection of poems from the intersection between surrealism and afro-futurism, where Césaire meets Sun Ra. Divine Blue Light further affirms Alexander’s status as […]

Anna Badkhen discusses her new book with Tongo Eisen Martin “Bright Unbearable Reality: Essays” published by New York Review Books Called a “chronicler of a world on the move” by The New York Review of Books, Anna Badkhen seeks what separates and binds us at a time when one in seven people has left their […]

Join us for the launch of Bruce Rettig's book, REFRACTION, along with a celebration of Tahoe Writers Works' authors. In addition to the book launch, many of TWW's authors will be reading, including Jennifer Ouashnick, Gantt Miller, Bridey Heidel, Patricia Okacza, Marie Johnson and Lisa Kirkman. Enjoy an evening of good company, excellent writing, and […]

Dr. Clarence Lusane in conversation with Justin Desmangles City Lights celebrates the publication of Twenty Dollars and Change: Harriet Tubman and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice By Clarence Lusane Foreword by: Kali Holloway published by City Lights Books Twenty Dollars and Change places Harriet Tubman’s life and legacy in a long tradition of resistance, […]

Courtney Faye Taylor in conversation with Chantz Erolin City Lights celebrates the publication of Concentrate: poem published by Graywolf Press In her virtuosic debut, Courtney Faye Taylor explores the under-told history of the murder of Latasha Harlins—a fifteen-year-old Black girl killed by a Korean shop owner, Soon Ja Du, after being falsely accused of shoplifting […]

Eileen Myles discussing their new book Pathetic Literature by Eileen Myles published by Grove Atlantic “Literature is pathetic.” So claims Eileen Myles in their bold and bracing introduction to Pathetic Literature, an exuberant collection of pieces ranging from poetry to drama to prose to something in between, all of which explore those so-called “pathetic” or […]