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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 9/27-10/3

This week in San Francisco: The Rumpus Book Club meets IRL, Litquake!, art at Benders, Litquake (Ferlinghetti style), and Barely Published Authors (AKA Litquake!). Monday 9/27: Are you a member of The...

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Animating Howl

In yesterday’s San Francisco Chronicle, I chat with artist Eric Drooker about animating Allen Ginsberg’s Howl for the film of the same name as the long poem, and his resulting new book, Howl: A Graphic...

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Did You Hear about Bradley?

Hal Niedzviecki’s new collection, Look Down, This is Where it Must Have Happened, asks us what is essential to narrative.Canadian writer Hal Niedzviecki made his mark as a cultural critic with Hello,...

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Ben Marcus Reading Tonight

Ben Marcus will read from his new novel The Flame Alphabet at City Lights Bookstore. Tonight, 7 p.m.“The Flame Alphabet invites the question: What is left of civilization when we lose the ability to...

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The Rumpus Interview with Michelle Tea

Michelle Tea is an author, performer, public speaker, event producer, educator, activist, and now, with her new Sister Spit imprint at City Lights Publishers, the editor of her own press.I’ve known her...

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THIS IS NOT AN EMAIL

In honor of Letter Writing Month, City Lights is publishing a few of our Letters in the Mail!First up is Deb Olin Unferth’s letter. Stay tuned for another by Gabrielle Calvocoressi.Want more...

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Not An Email

This is a letter in two parts. It didn’t start out that way but I got to thinking about joy and revision. So when I say goodbye the first time, you’ll see there’s actually more to go.So begins...

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Notable San Francisco: 11/11–11/17

Monday 11/11: Hugo Martinez and Christin To, co-founders of MAT-TER Design + Build Studio share their work on La Burbuja, a portable sound booth for recording the stories of Sonic Trace, a storytelling...

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Notable SF: 12/2–12/8

Monday 12/2: The Bazaar Writers Salon, hosted by Peter Kline, features readings by Christopher Kempf, Scott Laughlin, and Bruce Snider and music by Bob Hillman. Free, 7 p.m. at Bazaar Cafe.Tuesday...

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Notable SF 1/20–1/26

Monday 1/20: Happy MLK Day!Tuesday 1/21: Ben Marcus reads and discusses Leaving the Sea: Stories with Daniel Levin Becker at City Lights. Free, 7 p.m.Wednesday 1/22: Moazzam Sheikh will be reading from...

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Notable SF: 1/27–2/2

Monday 1/27: Bring your 5 minute story for a chance to get onstage Feb. 17th at the Verdi Club with Porchlight. The theme is Long Walks on The Beach: The Dating Show. $5, 7 p.m. at the Hemlock...

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Celebrating Stein

This year marks the 100th anniversary of Gertrude Stein’s collection of poems, “Tender Buttons.” To celebrate the occasion, City Lights Book Publishers is putting out a new edition of the poet’s...

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Barbara Berman’s National Poetry Month Picks

If your community has public transit or an institution of higher education, chances are excellent that it has an independent bookstore. If you don’t have one nearby and you don’t check out Indie Bound,...

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Barbara Berman’s Holiday Poetry Column

Kay Ryan is one of the best living poets writing in English. She has won a Pulitzer Prize and served two terms as United States Poet Laureate. Unlike some other Pulitzer winners, she creates work that...

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Notable San Francisco: 12/30–1/5

Wednesday 12/30: The Berkeley Poetry Slam presents The Third Annual Anarchy Slam with performance poet Mighty Mike McGee, a former National Poetry Slam Grand Champion, who has performed with Tons of...

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Q&A with Sara Majka

Author Sara Majka answers questions for City Lights Booksellers about not being a writer, the first book she finished reading as a child, and the hypothetical soundtrack for her book:I have this...

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This Week in Indie Bookstores

Famed Indian bookseller Ram Advani has passed away at the age of 95. He had planned to continue visiting his shops until was 99.Elton John has a favorite Los Angeles bookstore: Book Soup.Seattle’s only...

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Notable San Francisco: 11/30–12/6

Wednesday 11/30: City Lights celebrates the publication of the magazine, Freeman’s: 2: Family: The Best New Writing on Family, from Grove Press. Editor John Freeman will be on hand. Free, 7 p.m., City...

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This Week in Indie Bookstores

Revolution Books in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan is literally advocating for real revolution. Broadway Books in Portland, Oregon spent Inauguration Day handing out Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s...

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This Week in Indie Bookstores

An eight-time Jeopardy! winner is turning the cash into his dream: a bookstore. City Lights in San Francisco is offering up a special section featuring resistance literature. Bookstores in Washington,...

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