Combining San Francisco history, art, literature, cycling, and urban exploration, Bikes to Books began as an homage to the 1988 street-naming project spearheaded by City Lights…
Celebrate five years of Bikes to Books with our annual spring ride! Combining San Francisco history, art, literature, cycling, and urban exploration, Bikes to Books began…
It started with the simple, perhaps under-asked question: “Wouldn’t it be fun if we did something really crazy?” So said City Lights events director Peter…
Michael Warr presented Of Protest and Poetry: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin at City Lights on Thursday, June 30 2016, with readings by Warr, D. Scott…
City Lights published Elaine Kahn‘s debut full-length collection of poems, Women in Public, as the thirteenth title in the City Lights Spotlight series. The following exchange was conducted by email. STEVEN…
When I walked out of the train station in Barcelona, I was confronted with a machine gun. Someone in the Guardia Civil was interested in…
An interview with Elaine Kahn, from The Write Stuff series over at SF Weekly: Musician, poet, artist, Elaine Kahn was born in Evanston, Illinois and is currently based…
One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the…
In 2005 I was in a theater in Davis watching a man waving a huge silver-metallic banner back and forth. There was a fork-lift involved,…
Wave Books Editor-at Large Matthew Zapruder hosted readings by some of the Seattle-based press’ recent authors at City Lights on Tuesday, September 30th 2014: Garrett Caples…