Yunte Huang in conversation with Charles Bernstein A discussion centering on Chinese Whispers: Toward a Transpacific Poetics by Yunte Huang published by the University of Chicago Press Chinese Whispers examines multiple contact zones between the Anglophone and Sinophone worlds, investigating how poetry both enables and complicates the transpacific production of meaning. In this new book, […]

Douglas Kearney reads from “Optic Subwoof” published by Wave Books Optic Subwoof is a collection of talks that poet and National Book Award finalist Douglas Kearney presented for the Bagley Wright Lecture Series in 2020 and 2021. As kinetic on the page as they are in person, these lectures offer an urgent critique of the […]

City Lights celebrates the publication of Is This How You Eat a Watermelon? by Zein El-Amine published by Radix Media Is This How You Eat a Watermelon? invites readers into a world where love, war, and trauma collide with the desire to consume life—or be consumed by it. Here, a dozen boarding school students find […]

Sam Lipsyte reading from No One Left to Come Looking for You: A Novel published by Simon & Schuster A darkly comic mystery by the author of Hark and The Ask set in the vibrant music scene of early 1990s New York City. Manhattan’s East Village, 1993. Dive bars, DIY music venues, shady weirdos, and […]