City Lights Booksellers & Publishers

08/17/2026

Coming up this week at City Lights LIVE!

⛰️ Tuesday 8/18 6pm PT/9pm ET
Cole Nicole LeFavour with Jean Cardeño
IN THE ARMS OF MOUNTAINS: A Memoir of Land, Love, and Q***r Resistance in Red America
[Beacon Press]
ONLINE ONLY - Register here: https://citylights.com/events/cole-nicole-lefavour-in-the-arms-of-mountains/

✈️ Thursday 8/20 6pm PT/9pm ET
A. Igoni Barrett
WHYTEFACE
[Graywolf Press]
ONLINE ONLY - Register here: https://citylights.com/events/a-igoni-barrett/

🌱 Saturday 8/20 1pm PT
Susan Antolin, Garry Gay, and Carolyn Hall
THE SAN FRANCISCO HAIKU ANTHOLOGY: Volume 2
📍In Kerouac Alley- Details: https://citylights.com/events/haiku-in-the-alley/

📖 Sunday 8/21 12pm PT
Beyond Baroque @ City Lights
Rhiannon Cielos Chavez, Genesis Perez, Iván Salinas, & jimmy vega
📍In Kerouac Alley- Details: https://citylights.com/.../rayelle-davis-money-in-the.../

You can find the rest of August's events here: https://citylights.com/events/

08/14/2026

Rest in Peace, Ward Churchill

1947 - 2026

City Lights published Ward Churchill’s books including:

FANTASIES of the MASTER RACE: Literature, Cinema and the Colonization of American Indians

A LITTLE MATTER of GENOCIDE: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas 1492 to the Present

PERVERSIONS of JUSTICE: Indigenous Peoples and Angloamerican Law

STRUGGLE for the LAND: Native North American Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide and Colonization

08/13/2026

Walking around with your head in the clouds, makes no sense at all . . .

photo by Dennis Sullivan

08/12/2026

Rest in Power
Johanna Fernandez, 1970 - 2026

Pictured here with Mumia Abu Jamal

Johanna advocated for Mumia's freedom, and she edited his work in the book, "Writing on the Wall: Selected Prison Writings of Mumia Abu-Jamal, published by City Lights, 2015.

"A fight for Mumia is a fight for ourselves and our highest aspirations."—Johanna Fernandez

More about the book here:
https://citylights.com/open-media-series/writing-on-the-wall-sel-prison-writings/

08/10/2026

This week at City Lights LIVE!

🌎 Tuesday 8/11 6pm PT/9pm ET
Mara Wilson with Saumya Roy
HOW WE SEE IT: The World Looks at America in the Age of Trump – Edited by The Dial
The New Press
ONLINE ONLY - Register here: https://citylights.com/events/the-dial-city-lights-mara-wilson-in-conversation-with-saumya-roy/

You can find the rest of August's events here: https://citylights.com/events/

08/10/2026

"Cab drivers would recite Angelos's poetry to me when I would get into their cars."

— Eleni Sikelianos discusses learning about her great grandfather's literary legacy when traveling in Greece for the first time on the Los Angeles Review of Books Podcast, hosted by Kate Wolf 🚕

In her new hybrid memoir, MEMORY REHEARSAL (published by City Lights, May 2026), Eleni unearths the story of her astonishing great grandmother, Eva Palmer Sikelianos 🏛

Listen to the interview:

Eleni Sikelianos discusses her new book 'Memory Rehearsal,' a hybrid-memoir that tracks the history of her great-grandparents

08/07/2026

In the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB) Abigail Susik discusses several recent books about André Breton, including our own CAVALIER PERSPECTIVE: LAST ESSAYS, 1952-1966, translated from the French by Austin Carder
https://citylights.com/city-lights-published/cavalier-perspective/

André Breton, necropolitics, and 100 years of surrealism.

08/07/2026

Congratulations to Genny Lim, recipient of a Poet Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets!

Genny Lim is the Poet Laureate of San Francisco ❤️

https://poets.org/twenty-two-poets-laureate-awarded-11-million-community-poetry-projects

08/05/2026

Happiest publication day to translator C Francis Fisher and Joyce Mansour, SATISFIED SARCOPHAGI: Collected Short Stories (City Lights. August 4, 2026) 🌸

More about the book here:
https://citylights.com/city-lights-published/satisfied-sarcophagi-col-ss/

08/03/2026

This week at City Lights LIVE!

⛰️ Monday 8/3 6pm PT/9pm ET
Rayelle Davis with Jolene McIlwain
MONEY IN THE MOUNTAINS: The Cultural Trauma of Appalachia
[Pluto Press]
ONLINE ONLY - Register here: https://citylights.com/events/rayelle-davis-money-in-the-mountains-the-cultural-trauma-of-appalachia/

📽️ Friday 8/7 7pm PT
GUY DEBORD: The Complete Cinematic Works
Hosted by Ken Knabb
[PM Press]
At Artists’ Television Access, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA, 94110
Tickets Required***
https://citylights.com/events/the-cinema-must-be-destroyed-the-films-of-guy-debord/

You can find the rest of August's events here: https://citylights.com/events/