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  • October 2023

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5:30 pm

The Sugar Pine Foundation Presents Call of the Forest: The Forgotten Wisdom of Trees

September 26 @ 5:30 pm

The Sugar Pine Foundation Presents Call of the Forest: The Forgotten Wisdom of Trees

In a theatrical feature and 1-hour television documentary, we follow visionary scientist, conservationist and author, Diana Beresford-Kroeger, on her journey to the most beautiful forests of the northern hemisphere. From the sacred sugi and cedar forests of Japan, the ancient Raheen Wood of Ireland, the walnut and redwood trees of America, to the great boreal […]

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6:00 pm

Karen Cook-Bell in conversation with Nikki M. Taylor

September 27 @ 6:00 pm

Karen Cook-Bell in conversation with Nikki M. Taylor

Karen Cook-Bell in conversation with Nikki M. Taylor Price: Free (Registration Required)   City Lights and Cambridge University Press celebrate the publication of two new books: Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America – by Karen Cook-Bell and Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women’s Lethal Resistance – by […]

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2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Bruce Borgos, The Bitter Past – Reading & Signing

September 30 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Bruce Borgos, The Bitter Past – Reading & Signing

Join us for a reading of author Bruce Borgos's newest book, The Bitter Past. In the tradition of Craig Johnson and C. J. Box, Bruce Borgos's The Bitter Past begins a compelling series set in the high desert of Nevada featuring Sheriff Porter Beck… Porter Beck is the sheriff in the high desert of Nevada, […]

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6:00 pm

Lisa Teasley

October 2 @ 6:00 pm

Lisa Teasley

Lisa Teasley in conversation with Steven Reigns City Lights celebrates the publication of Fluid: Stories By Lisa Teasley Published by Cune Press Fluid is a fascinating collage of short stories exploring a kaleidoscope of intriguing characters with vastly differing perspectives, as they navigate their lives within society’s most challenging contemporary issues. Lisa Teasley is the author […]

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6:00 pm

FROM HOWL TO NOW: BOOK BANS IN THE U.S.

October 3 @ 6:00 pm

FROM HOWL TO NOW: BOOK BANS IN THE U.S.

City Lights in conjunction with PEN America present FROM HOWL TO NOW: BOOK BANS IN THE U.S. Moderated by Ipek Burnett with appearances by Nic Stone, Becky Calzada, Leela Hensler, and Summer Lopez. During Banned Books Week, City Lights and PEN America bring together authors, librarians, and student activists to discuss the alarming rise in […]

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TWW Workshop

October 3 @ 6:00 pm Recurring

TWW Workshop

The TWW workshops are free and open to the public. Writers of all genres and anyone who appreciates the written word are welcome. Work is submitted a week prior to workshop (Tuesday), and a workshop notice is emailed (Thursday/Friday). The pieces to be critiqued can then be dowloaded and read. We critique a maximum of […]

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12:00 pm Recurring

For The Protection of All Beings: An inquiry into advancing technologies and their consequences and possibilities

October 7 @ 12:00 pm Recurring

For The Protection of All Beings: An inquiry into advancing technologies and their consequences and possibilities

City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, Goethe Institut San Francisco, MIT Press, and Centre for International Security Studies at University of Sydney present For The Protection of All Beings: An inquiry into advancing technologies and their consequences and possibilities Saturday, October 7 and Sunday October 8, 2023. Events will be both virtual and onsite between 12 […]

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7:00 pm Recurring

For The Protection of All Beings: An inquiry into advancing technologies and their consequences and possibilities

October 8 @ 7:00 pm Recurring

For The Protection of All Beings: An inquiry into advancing technologies and their consequences and possibilities

City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, Goethe Institut San Francisco, MIT Press, and Centre for International Security Studies at University of Sydney present For The Protection of All Beings: An inquiry into advancing technologies and their consequences and possibilities Saturday, October 7 and Sunday October 8, 2023. Events will be both virtual and onsite between 12 […]

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6:00 pm

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

October 9 @ 6:00 pm

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz discusses her newly published book An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (the 10th Anniversary Edition) By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Published by Beacon Press City Lights and Beacon Press celebrate the 10th Anniversary Edition of the first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples. An Indigenous Peoples’ History […]

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6:00 pm

Justin Torres in conversation with Jonathan Escoffery

October 10 @ 6:00 pm

Justin Torres in conversation with Jonathan Escoffery

City Lights and Litquake celebrate the publication of Justin Torres’s new novel Blackouts Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories—personal and collective. This event is part of the Litquake 2023 Festival. To learn more visit: https://www.litquake.org/ Out in the desert in a place called […]

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6:00 pm

Dylan C Penningroth in conversation with Richard Ford

October 11 @ 6:00 pm

Dylan C Penningroth in conversation with Richard Ford

City Lights and Liveright Books celebrate the publication of Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights By Dylan C Penningroth published by Liveright Books A prize-winning scholar draws on astonishing new research to demonstrate how Black people used the law to their advantage long before the Civil Rights Movement. The familiar story […]

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1:00 pm

City Lights Historic Talk

October 14 @ 1:00 pm

City Lights Historic Talk

City Lights celebrates its 70th Year! Have you ever wondered about the origins of City Lights? Did you know there were two court cases in addition to the famous HOWL trial? Ever wonder how Lawrence Ferlinghetti became a pacifist, and how that was reflected at City Lights? Learn about these historical events and other intriguing […]

2:00 pm

Phoebe Wagner, A Shot of Gin – Reading & Signing

October 14 @ 2:00 pm

Phoebe Wagner, A Shot of Gin – Reading & Signing

Join us for a reading & signing of author Phoebe Wagner's newest book, A Shot of Gin. In A Shot of Gin, Juniper "Gin" Cain is pretty sure she's mostly human. Working security for the vampire-owned All Saints Casino, Gin's got an edge on the other employees: vampires can't drink her blood, making her perfect […]

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6:00 pm

Celebrating Necessary Alternatives: An Evening with The 3rd Thing

October 16 @ 6:00 pm

Celebrating Necessary Alternatives: An Evening with The 3rd Thing

Celebrating Necessary Alternatives: An Evening with The 3rd Thing Join The 3rd Thing in virtual space to celebrate the emergence of this innovative press’s latest genre-bending offerings. City Lights hosts an evening of short readings, screenings and oracular activation, featuring Alissa Hattman author of Sift, Summer J. Hart author of Boomhouse, Carlos Sirah and Diane […]

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12:00 pm

Ayana Mathis

October 17 @ 12:00 pm

Ayana Mathis

Ayana Mathis reads from The Unsettled: a novel published by Alfred A Knopf From the best-selling author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, a searing multi-generational novel—set in the 1980s in racially and politically turbulent Philadelphia and in the tiny town of Bonaparte, Alabama. This is a story about a mother fighting for her sanity […]

6:00 pm

John Freeman & Friends

October 17 @ 6:00 pm

John Freeman & Friends

City Lights and Litquake celebrate John Freeman’s final issue of “Freeman’s” journal Freeman’s: Conclusions published by Grove Atlantic With John Freeman and friends (TBA) This event is part of the Litquake 2023 Festival. To learn more visit: https://www.litquake.org/ Over the course of ten years, Freeman’s has introduced the English-speaking world to countless writers of international […]

6:00 pm Recurring

TWW Workshop

October 17 @ 6:00 pm Recurring

TWW Workshop

The TWW workshops are free and open to the public. Writers of all genres and anyone who appreciates the written word are welcome. Work is submitted a week prior to workshop (Tuesday), and a workshop notice is emailed (Thursday/Friday). The pieces to be critiqued can then be dowloaded and read. We critique a maximum of […]

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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Friends of the Library Book Club

October 18 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Friends of the Library Book Club

On the third Wednesday of every month, open to all.  The October selection is Dinners with Ruth:  A Memoir on the Power of Friendships by Nina Totenberg. 

6:00 pm

A Noir Soiree with Jonathan Lethem

October 18 @ 6:00 pm

A Noir Soiree with Jonathan Lethem

A Noir Soiree with Jonathan Lethem Join us in celebrating the publication of his new novel Brooklyn Crime Novel Published by Ecco Books (an imprint of Harper-Collins) This event will take place at an undisclosed location. Tickets available via Litquake (TBA). Once purchased, you will be directed to the front-counter at City Lights where a […]

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6:00 pm

mimi tempestt

October 19 @ 6:00 pm

mimi tempestt

Join us for the launch of a new City Lights published book! the delicacy of embracing spirals by mimi tempestt One of Publisher’s Weekly’s Most Anticipated Poetry Books for Fall 2023! Incendiary, lyrical poems of liberation from the phantasm of Black womanhood. “mimi tempestt writes like a third testament in which God (or our understanding) […]

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5:00 pm

The Adventures of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West

October 24 @ 5:00 pm

The Adventures of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West

An illustrated talk presented by Steve Robison, founder and printer of Tahoe Letterpress.  In addition to the presentation which begins at 5pm, participants can enjoy a display of an 1800s era antique letterpress type and engravings that came from the Territorial Enterprise newspaper in Virginia City and take home prints of some of the engravings.  […]

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6:00 pm

Alta Journal’s Issue 25 / David L. Ulin’s “Thirteen Question Method” Celebration

October 25 @ 6:00 pm

Alta Journal’s Issue 25 / David L. Ulin’s “Thirteen Question Method” Celebration

Celebrate Alta Journal’s Issue 25 and the publication David L. Ulin’s Thirteen Question Method published by Outpost19 Books   City Lights will be hosting Alta Journal to toast the release of its 25th issue, which is dedicated to writers and writing in the Golden State. The evening will double as a book launch party for […]

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6:00 pm

Found in Translation: Adventures in Language

October 26 @ 6:00 pm

Found in Translation: Adventures in Language

Moderated by Olivia E. Sears, with Gabriela Alemán, Dick Cluster, Gillian Conoloy, Elaine Katzenberger, Emilie Moorehouse, and Mark Schafer. City Lights was conceived as an international project. From the very beginning, from Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s own translations of Jacques Prévert , and on to some of the exciting authors City Lights publishes today, the world in […]

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12:00 pm - 3:00 pm

HUB 5 Fall Harvest Fest – (outside, weather permitting)

October 27 @ 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm

HUB 5 Fall Harvest Fest – (outside, weather permitting)

Check out local community resources for the whole family while enjoying crafts, games and a pie drawing.  Our FOL will have a table with free books for kids.

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6:00 pm Recurring

TWW Workshop

October 31 @ 6:00 pm Recurring

TWW Workshop

The TWW workshops are free and open to the public. Writers of all genres and anyone who appreciates the written word are welcome. Work is submitted a week prior to workshop (Tuesday), and a workshop notice is emailed (Thursday/Friday). The pieces to be critiqued can then be dowloaded and read. We critique a maximum of […]

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September 26
September 26 @ 5:30 pm

The Sugar Pine Foundation Presents Call of the Forest: The Forgotten Wisdom of Trees

September 27
September 27 @ 6:00 pm

Karen Cook-Bell in conversation with Nikki M. Taylor

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September 30
September 30 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Bruce Borgos, The Bitter Past – Reading & Signing

October 2
October 2 @ 6:00 pm

Lisa Teasley

October 3
October 3 @ 6:00 pm

FROM HOWL TO NOW: BOOK BANS IN THE U.S.

October 3 @ 6:00 pm Recurring

TWW Workshop

October 7
October 7 @ 12:00 pm Recurring

For The Protection of All Beings: An inquiry into advancing technologies and their consequences and possibilities

October 8
October 8 @ 7:00 pm Recurring

For The Protection of All Beings: An inquiry into advancing technologies and their consequences and possibilities

October 2
October 2 @ 6:00 pm

Lisa Teasley

October 3
October 3 @ 6:00 pm

FROM HOWL TO NOW: BOOK BANS IN THE U.S.

October 3 @ 6:00 pm Recurring

TWW Workshop

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October 7
October 7 @ 12:00 pm Recurring

For The Protection of All Beings: An inquiry into advancing technologies and their consequences and possibilities

October 8
October 8 @ 7:00 pm Recurring

For The Protection of All Beings: An inquiry into advancing technologies and their consequences and possibilities

October 9
October 9 @ 6:00 pm

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

October 10
October 10 @ 6:00 pm

Justin Torres in conversation with Jonathan Escoffery

October 11
October 11 @ 6:00 pm

Dylan C Penningroth in conversation with Richard Ford

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October 14
October 14 @ 1:00 pm

City Lights Historic Talk

October 14 @ 2:00 pm

Phoebe Wagner, A Shot of Gin – Reading & Signing

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October 16
October 16 @ 6:00 pm

Celebrating Necessary Alternatives: An Evening with The 3rd Thing

October 17
October 17 @ 12:00 pm

Ayana Mathis

October 17 @ 6:00 pm

John Freeman & Friends

October 17 @ 6:00 pm Recurring

TWW Workshop

October 18
October 18 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Friends of the Library Book Club

October 18 @ 6:00 pm

A Noir Soiree with Jonathan Lethem

October 19
October 19 @ 6:00 pm

mimi tempestt

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October 24
October 24 @ 5:00 pm

The Adventures of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West

October 25
October 25 @ 6:00 pm

Alta Journal’s Issue 25 / David L. Ulin’s “Thirteen Question Method” Celebration

October 26
October 26 @ 6:00 pm

Found in Translation: Adventures in Language

October 27
October 27 @ 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm

HUB 5 Fall Harvest Fest – (outside, weather permitting)

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October 31
October 31 @ 6:00 pm Recurring

TWW Workshop

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