Michael Iarocci in conversation with Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby
LIVE - City Lights BooksMichael Iarocci in conversation with Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby A discussion focusing upon the book: The Art of Witnessing: Francisco de Goya’s Disasters of War by Michael Iarocci published by University of Toronto Press Widely acknowledged as a major turning point in the history of visual depictions of war, Francisco de Goya’s renowned print series The […]
Adam Shatz
LIVE - City Lights BooksCity Lights and Verso Books celebrate the publication of Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination by Adam Shatz published by Verso Books What does it mean to be a politically committed writer? Through a close reading of the lives and works of some of the greatest intellectuals of recent times, Adam Shatz asks: […]
Joyce Mansour Tribute and Book Launch
LIVE - City Lights BooksCity Lights celebrates the publication of Emerald Wounds: Selected Poems by Joyce Mansour Translator: Emilie Moorhouse Published by City Lights Books Garrett Caples in conversation with Emilie Moorhouse Rediscover Joyce Mansour, the most significant Surrealist poet to emerge from 1950s Paris. “You know very well, Joyce, that you are for me–and very objectively too–the greatest […]
Micheline Aharonian Marcom and Fowzia Karimi
LIVE - City Lights BooksCity Lights and Dalkey Archive Press celebrate the publication of “small pieces” By Micheline Aharonian Marcom and Fowzia Karimi Published by Dalkey Archive Press small pieces is a collaboration between novelist Micheline Aharonian Marcom and writer and visual artist Fowzia Karimi, pairing Marcom’s short stories (or “miniatures” as Marcom calls them—prose pieces of one page […]
Cisco Bradley
LIVE - City Lights BooksCity Lights and Duke University Press celebrate the publication of The Williamsburg Avant-Garde: Experimental Music and Sound on the Brooklyn Waterfront By Cisco Bradley Published by Duke University Press In The Williamsburg Avant-Garde Cisco Bradley chronicles the rise and fall of the underground music and art scene in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn between the […]
