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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.

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✨ 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!
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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-...

Congress Maintains Most Federal Funding for Libraries, Museums, and Archives.

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!

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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!
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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

Konec San Francisca All caps title in bright red over a photo maybe taken in South of Market on a cloudy day, my author name in small white letters arranged vertically with the title, translator's name above the N in San

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:
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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.

Even Time Bleeds: Selected Poems by Jeannette L. Clariond, translated and introduced by Forrest Gander

Jeannette L. Clariond

Forrest Gander

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

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

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

Opinion | What the ‘Dude’ Who Shot Renee Good Couldn’t Hear

"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...

“Everything We Do Matters.” Minneapolis’s Moon Palace Books is a Hub For Anti-ICE Resistance Angela Schwesnedl from Moon Palace Books in Minneapolis picked up my phone call on Saturday almost two hours to the minute after Alex Pretti was murdered in the street by ICE officers. “If you have…

“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 🌷

thank you!!

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...

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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