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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]