Virtual Event: Stephanie Wildman and Emma Bland Smith
online CA, United StatesJoin us for story time with Stephanie Wildman and Emma Bland Smith on Saturday, May 8 at 12pm PT to celebrate, Brave in the Water,...
Join us for story time with Stephanie Wildman and Emma Bland Smith on Saturday, May 8 at 12pm PT to celebrate, Brave in the Water,...
City Arts & Lectures presents: David Mitchell in conversation with Pico Iyer Saturday, May 8, 2021 2:00pm Pacific Time TICKETS David Mitchell is the award-winning and bestselling...
Book Launch for Mule Kick Blues: And Last Poems published by City Lights The last book by the late Beat Generation legend Michael McClure with Anne...
“Mourning is the price we pay for having the courage to love others,” opens the extraordinary memoir by renowned psychiatrist Irvin Yalom (Love’s Executioner) and...
In 1968, poet Muriel Rukeyser famously wrote, “What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.” More...
Join us on Monday, May 10 at 6pm PT when Eric Nguyen joins us to discuss his debut novel, Things We Lost to the Water,...
VIRTUAL EVENT: Aaron Carnes, music editor at the Good Times, will be in conversation with Good Times editor Steve Palopoli about Carnes' new book In Defense of Ska. Register for...
Booksmith and The Bindery are thrilled to host the virtual launch for Lara Bazelon and her debut novel A Good Mother! More to be announced soon, but won't...
How do you make and keep friendships of a lifetime? Angie Coiro interviews Adam “Smiley” Poswolsky on Friendship in the Age of Loneliness. About this...
City Arts & Lectures presents: Stress and Resilience with Elissa Epel & Dacher Keltner Tuesday, May 11, 2021 6:00pm Pacific Time TICKETS This event appears...
discussing his new book Monkey Boy: a novel published by Grove Atlantic Press This is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights...
PRESENTED BY THE RUBY JOIN US TUESDAY, MAY 11 AT 6PM PT WHEN LINDA RUI FENG IS JOINED BY MENG JIN TO DISCUSS HER DEBUT NOVEL, SWIMMING BACK TO...
Please join us on Tuesday, May 11, 2021 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of THE NINE LIVES OF ROSE NAPOLITANO...
Food doesn’t just keep us alive—it’s a vital and constantly evolving part of our global culture. Author and food journalist Mark Bittman’s new book, Animal, Vegetable,...
Booksmith and Mother Jones present Your Computer is on Fire, an evening of conversation between Mother Jones data and interactives editor Sinduja Rangarajan and two editors of the new anthology Your...
Join us on Wednesday, May 12 at 6pm PT when Peter Filkins and Rosanna Warren join us to discuss their latest collections, Water/Music and So...
A marvelous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Lowland and Interpreter of Maladies—her first in nearly a decade. Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in...
Litquake's Epicenter: A Virtual Series Bringing writers from around the world to your computer screen Co-presented by City Lights Books & Booksellers Litquake is thrilled...
Since the onset of the global pandemic in 2020, isolation has been, for good or bad, a major feature of life for many people across...
Virtual Event 5:30 pm PT | 6:30 pm MT | 7:30 pm CT | 8:30 pm ET Join us for an event celebrating Bruno Lloret’s Nancy, a...
Thursday, May 13, 2021 6:00pm Pacific Time TICKETS Stacey Abrams was instrumental in driving an enormous number of voter registrations in Georgia, including some 800,000 new voters...
Booksmith and The Bindery are thrilled to host Lilly Dancyger for her debut, Negative Space: A Memoir. She'll be joined in conversation by Alia Volz (Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana,...
This Poetry Reading Series provides a unique opportunity to hear diverse and unusual sets of readers, pairing local Bay Area poets with visiting poets and...
Wow! Black Freighter Press (new press whose co-founder is San Francisco’s Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin) just published Josiah Luis’ book. The poems in Baby Axolotls &...
Please join us on Thursday, May 13, 2021 at 7 PM PDT for an online author chat with Jessica Anya Blau discussing her novel, MARY JANE....
Robert C. Ritchie will be in conversation with Gary Griggs about Ritchie's fascinating new book, The Lure of the Beach: A Global History—a chronicle of humanity's history with...
The stress, conflict, and crises of the outer world are a signal: the time has come to awaken your inner shaman. However, you don't need...
Join us on Friday, May 14 at 6pm PT when Kristin Hersh is joined by Black Francis to discuss her latest book, Seeing Sideways: A...
90 minutes 30 readers 3 minutes each On Zoom! FREE AND ALL WELCOME! Sign up to read here: https://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9 If you enjoy spaces like this...
Jeff VanderMeer joins Rikki Ducornet for a conversation about her new novel, Trafik (Coffee House Press). “Surrealism meets space opera in Trafik, Rikki Ducornet’s startlingly original look at a...