This week’s podcast episode features a City Lights title, UNSUNG HEROINES: 35 Women Who Changed the Bay Area. Listen on Soundcloud, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts! @raealexandra.bsky.social Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/livefromcity... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6KNK...

"I have been polishing my mirror for years and years, and each year, more animals appear. . . . Do they recognize this world? Do they recognize me?" —from MEMORY REHEARSAL by Eleni Sikelianos Read an excerpt @conjunctions.bsky.social conjunctions.com/articles/ele...

🌅 TONIGHT Tuesday 3/24 7pm PT Hannah Lillith Assadi in conversation with @ingridrojasc.bsky.social PARADISO 17: A Novel [@aaknopf.bsky.social] ***In-store only, find more info here: citylights.com/events/hanna... Presented with Litquake

Celebrating Lawrence Ferlinghetti every day at City Lights, and especially this day, on his birthday. Viva Ferlinghetti! ❤️

@citylightsbooks.bsky.social - Happy Ferlinghetti Day! - from the Allen Ginsberg Project - allenginsberg.org/2026/03/t-m-...

Join us for a conversation between @maxlawton.bsky.social & Sean Thor Conroe about the life and work of Italian author Antonio Moresco, April 6! The event will be held in-person at @citylightsbooks.bsky.social, and livestreamed on Zoom. If you want to join us online, register here: buff.ly/1OxJErP

"People kept saying to me, well, San Francisco is a gold rush town, and maybe there just weren’t many women here, and maybe the women here weren’t in a position to do anything, and I just, it didn’t ring true to me. Because where there is life, there are women."—Rae Alexandra on KQED's "Bay Curious"

"A poet’s immersion in Greek classicism forges a stronger bond with her bloodline. . . . A moving family memoir and a triumph of cultural archaeology.” —Kirkus Reviews, * Starred Review * for Eleni Sikelianos's MEMORY REHEARSAL forthcoming from City Lights, May 2026 bit.ly/4lzuLtX

I’m excited about this. Coming out with @citylightsbooks.bsky.social in October. Please pre-order, share, etc citylights.com/wp-content/u...

Happy publication day to UNSUNG HEROINES: 35 Women Who Changed the Bay Area by Rae Alexandra, and illustrated by Adrienne Simms Join us at one of the events! citylights.com/city-lights-...

Popped into @citylightsbooks.bsky.social yesterday, and something caught my eye! So stoked to pick up a copy of When Trees Testify by @berondam.bsky.social !!!!!

Did you miss the book launch for "UNSUNG HEROINES: 35 Women Who Changed the Bay Area" ? You can now view a recording on our YouTube channel featuring author Rae Alexandra & illustrator Adrienne Simms! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-T_...

Somewhere in the Bay Area, a bookstore is quietly carrying the scene. Time to put it on the record. Nominate your favorite in SFGATE’s Best of the Bay Area Reader’s Choice Contest. Or back current contenders like @citylightsbooks.bsky.social and @greenapplebooks.bsky.social at the link below.

Save the date, San Francisco! 🗓️ On March 25, @crystalsimonesmith.bsky.social will be at @citylightsbooks.bsky.social to chat about her new work of erasure poetry, COMMON SENSE (1776), with Tongo Eisen-Martin Poetry. Register now! #America250

🌊 TODAY Mon 3/9 6pm PT/9pm ET Judith Enck & @adamlmahoney.bsky.social THE PROBLEM WITH PLASTIC: How We Can Save Ourselves and Our Planet Before It’s Too Late @thenewpress.bsky.social @beyondplastics.bsky.social **ONLINE ONLY** Register for free to access the event: citylights.com/events/judit...

🌊 TONIGHT Monday 3/9 6pm PT/9pm ET Judith Enck with Adam Mahoney THE PROBLEM WITH PLASTIC: How We Can Save Ourselves and Our Planet Before It’s Too Late @thenewpress.bsky.social ***ONLINE ONLY*** Register for free here for access to the event: citylights.com/events/judit...

Listen to this week's episode of the LIVE! From City Lights podcast on Spotify, Soundcloud, and Apple Podcasts. We feature a conversation between @jasminiolani.bsky.social and @thesusanito.bsky.social about Hakes' novel, THE PŌHAKU. soundcloud.com/livefromcity... open.spotify.com/episode/54pb...

✨ TONIGHT at City Lights LIVE! 7pm PT/10pm ET @sandiproy.bsky.social with @jcarstensen.bsky.social Discussing CHAPAL RANI, THE LAST QUEEN OF BENGAL: The Life and Times of a Female Impersonator @seagullbooks.bsky.social Register for free here for access to the event: citylights.com/events/sandi...

This week's LIVE! From City Lights podcast episode features John Sayles discussing his new book, CRUCIBLE. @melvillehouse.bsky.social Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or Soundcloud—Links in our bio!

💡 TONIGHT! Weds 2/18 7pm PT Join us to hear about all things City Lights with Gioia Woods who discuss her book CITY LIGHTS: Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Biography of a Bookstore [University of Nevada Press] ***IN-STORE ONLY*** Details: citylights.com/events/gioia...

Rae Alexandra and illustrator Adrienne Simms are hitting the local roads for their new book, UNSUNG HEROINES: 35 Women Who Changed the Bay Area, published by City Lights! citylights.com/city-lights-...

Next week, Gioia Woods joins us for a conversation about her new book on City Lights! Check out this excerpt featured in LitHub: lithub.com/the-radical-...

Rebuking President Trump, Congress votes to maintain most of the federal funding for libraries, museums, and archives. www.everylibrary.org/congress2026... via @everylibrary.bsky.social

Sunday, February 8th is Neal Cassady's centennial!

The latest episode of our podcast LIVE! From City Lights has dropped Featuring a timely discussion of @projectcensored.bsky.social's STATE OF THE FREE PRESS 2026 Listen on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, or Spotify! Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/livefromcity... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/14R4...

City Lights LIVE! Event Tonight ⛰️ Wednesday 2/4, 7pm PT/10pm ET Jeannette L. Clariond with Forrest Gander @princetonupress.bsky.social If you can't make it to the bookstore, register for the livestream here! citylights.com/events/jeann...

City Lights LIVE! Event Tonight 🔦 Tuesday 2/3, 7pm PT/10pm ET @ralphremington.bsky.social with Ted Russell PENETRATING WHITENESS: How White Supremacy Built America [Books That Save Lives] If you can't make it to the bookstore, register for the livestream here! citylights.com/events/ralph...

The deportation dragnet runs on Amazon Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides the crucial database management ICE depends on to track immigrants and power its massive deportation machine enforced by violent, masked agents. TELL AMAZON: End Contracts With Ice: bit.ly/3NSTbSIThe

In case you were looking for the Slovenian translation of THE END OF SAN FRANCISCO, here she is!!💞 Originally published in 2013 by @citylightsbooks.bsky.social and still available in English as well, of course!!💕

TONIGHT at City Lights! 🛣️ Thursday 1/29, 7pm PT/10pm ET Grant Faulkner & Gail Butensky (moderated by @mawsheinwin.bsky.social) something out there in the distance @uchicagopress.bsky.social If you cant make it into the bookstore, register here to join the livestream: citylights.com/events/grant...

City Lights will be closed all day January 30th in support of the national shutdown to abolish ICE. Like many others, we are horrified by the unmitigated use of force on civilians in Minneapolis, in the United States, and beyond our borders. Hope to see you in the streets.

Next week, Feb 4 at 7:00pm PST, @citylightsbooks.bsky.social is holding a reading of the vibrant and compelling poems of acclaimed Mexican writer Jeanette Clariond, translated by Pulitzer Prize-winner Forrest Gander in Even Time Bleeds! Don't miss this free, hybrid event: buff.ly/IApTK9D

You step out on yr porch for a minute & are swept up shot down or you turn to stone: Those are the choices —Diane diPrima from “MEANWHILE THE WORLD GOES DOWN” published in THE POETRY DEAL San Francisco Poet Laureate Series No. 5 City Lights, 2014 Photo of diPrima by Sheppard Powell

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

"I know that dude." " . . . When Renee Good said, 'That’s fine, dude. I’m not mad,' I heard her addressing every man who would or could or might take advantage of us as women." —Rachel Louise Snyder @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...

“All the bookstores here are fighting this,” she said, “I can’t overstate how involved all the stores are and how much work everybody is doing. It is a really incredible moment to be here. And to be part of this.”—Angela Schwesnedl, Moon Palace Books in @literaryhub.bsky.social

Art by Molly Fair justseeds.org/artist/molly... Image description: Thousands of people march in the streets of Minneapolis carrying protest signs against ICE with a purple gradient. Text: Dearly beloved we are gathered here today to CRUSH ICE as a play on his lyrics

they will never break minneapolis’ spirit. this is why we will win brass solidarity band brought the resistance and joy from george floyd square to whittier tonight

brass solidarity band performing “ain’t no stopping us now” at pimento in minneapolis, blocks from where alex pretti was murdered by border patrol agents. truly the best of this city ❤️❤️❤️

“i believe in music” is a new one in the brass solidarity band repertoire. very healing to be here in whittier next to alex pettri’s memorial among so many people

“Truth is an uncomfortable venue for those who pretend to serve our society while in fact serving only themselves—at our expense.” — Michael Parenti from his preface to BLACKSHIRTS & REDS Rational Fascism & the Overthrow of Communism Published by City Lights, 1997 Michael Parenti Rest in Power 🌷

This week’s episode of LIVE from City Lights! is available to listen on Spotify, Soundcloud, and Apple Podcasts now! ICYMI Anne Waldman reads from and discusses new work, MESOPOTOPIA @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1yVc... Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/livefromcity...

City Lights will be closed on Weds January 28th, all day, for our annual inventory. We are open every other day 10am to 10pm

TONIGHT! Join us in the bookstore—no registration required! Or register for free to join the livestream at this link: citylights.com/events/john-... @melvillehouse.bsky.social

Please join us when Thea Matthews reads via zoom for PathwaysArts -- Tuesday nite 1/20 7:30 ET -- link will be available on Tuesday afternoon. Her latest collection is GRIME via @citylightsbooks.bsky.social ...

The latest episode of our podcast is live! ICYMI, listen to Roddy Bottum discussing his memoir with Brontez Purnell on Soundcloud, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts. SoundCloud: on.soundcloud.com/ZWDGR0VBd2ju... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5ZuC... @akashicbooks.bsky.social

Join authors Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders on Saturday, January 24th for a virtual discussion about their book "Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship" hosted by @citylightsbooks.bsky.social. Link for details: citylights.com/events/rewir... @eff.org

ICE Raids. Japanese & Japanese American Wartime Incarceration. Excellent interview here with @brandonshimoda.bsky.social

The joy of attending the Poetry Room @citylightsbooks.bsky.social (via zoom) to celebrate @naylandblake.bsky.social must own "My Studio Is a Dungeon is the Studio: Writings & Interviews 1983-2024" @dukepress.bsky.social Edited by Jarrett Earnest (pictured here).