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A literary meetingplace since 1953, City Lights is a landmark bookstore and publishing house, known for our commitment to innovative writing and progressive ideals.
@citylightsbooks.bsky.socialCanadian poet, translator, and classicist Anne Carson has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature 🏆❤️
@citylightsbooks.bsky.social“I think I existed for a great amount of time in my life in a mode of silence, to the extent that I even convinced myself that silence was a form of protest,” Tran admitted. “But I’m 57, and I don’t want to do that anymore. I want to live. I want to exist.”—Truong Tran
Interview: shorturl.at/bVroI
@citylightsbooks.bsky.social@benehrenreich.bsky.social is coming to California to celebrate his new book, HOLD STILL, published by City Lights!
@citylightsbooks.bsky.socialNew Yorkers! This Thursday's event starts at 6pm at RIZZOLI!
@cambup-polsci.cambridge.orgReposted by @citylightsbooks.bsky.socialJoin R.K. Maril, author of "A Queer Guide to Saving American Democracy," for a November 4th book launch at @citylightsbooks.bsky.social
Learn more and register below
https://cup.org/4dhPXC2
@cambup-law.cambridge.orgReposted by @citylightsbooks.bsky.socialJoin R.K. Maril, author of "A Queer Guide to Saving American Democracy," for a November 4th book launch at @citylightsbooks.bsky.social
Learn more and register below
https://cup.org/4dhPXC2
@robertplant.comReposted by @citylightsbooks.bsky.socialFrom @hardlystrictly.bsky.social to Caffe Trieste to @citylightsbooks.bsky.social … pilgrimage time for me.
@litquake.bsky.socialReposted by @citylightsbooks.bsky.socialWe're grateful to have the iconic
@citylightsbooks.bsky.social as a bookstore partner! There are a handful of events they're co-presenting with us on the Festival schedule... check them out at buff.ly/YzE74ng
@penguinpress.bsky.socialReposted by @citylightsbooks.bsky.socialTHOMAS FRANK ON TOUR! Join Frank as he goes across country to celebrate the launch of his newest book, The Creativity Con. Learn more: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/743572...
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@citylightsbooks.bsky.socialTOMORROW at City Lights LIVE!
Thurs, 10/8
Jean-Baptiste Phou discusses his new book, COMING OUT OF MY SKIN, with Isabelle Thuy Pelaud at City Lights.
Join us in the bookstore, or register to join on Zoom here: citylights.com/events/jean-...
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@citylightsbooks.bsky.socialTruong Tran, author of "How to Exi(s)t: A Poet’s Memoir" TOUR!
More info: citylights.com/publishing/a...
@citylightsbooks.bsky.socialJoin City Lights and our fellow indie presses in Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco
this Sunday, Oct 4th, 11am to 4pm
at Litquake's Small Press Fair
We'll be listening to poetry, and selling our publications at deep discounts for cheap thrills ❤️
litquake2026.sched.com/event/2WDkL/...
@mayleechai.bsky.socialReposted by @citylightsbooks.bsky.socialThanks to everyone who came to the book launch for MY HUNGRY GHOSTS AT @citylightsbooks.bsky.social ! It was a joyful event!
@mayleechai.bsky.socialReposted by @citylightsbooks.bsky.socialOh I love these pictures a friend just sent from last night’s My Hungry Ghosts book launch at @citylightsbooks.bsky.social . Here I am reading with CA poet laureate Lee Herrick with Lawrence Ferlinghetti looking over our shoulders!
@citylightsbooks.bsky.socialWhat a thrill to host Jack White at City Lights today, reading poems from JACK WHITE COLLECTED LYRICS and SELECTED WRITING, edited by Ben Blackwell and published by @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social 🤍
@citylightsbooks.bsky.socialEleni Sikelianos reads from her new book MEMORY REHEARSAL, published by City Lights, in Stonington, CT on Friday & at Brown Univ, Providence, RI next Tuesday
More at citylights.com/publishing/a...
@citylightsbooks.bsky.socialCongrats to Dick Cluster, who won the Northern California Book Award, Best Prose Translation for Gabriela Alemán’s novel SMOKE, published by City Lights on Oct 14, 2025. "Cluster's compelling translation gracefully navigates the novel's rich linguistic tapestry . . ."—from the judges' citation
@jeffjarvis.bsky.socialReposted by @citylightsbooks.bsky.socialSF friends: Find 2 signed copies of Hot Type at the beloved @citylightsbooks.bsky.social. Keplers sold out; more coming. New Yorkers: Find a signed stack at the legendary @strandbooks.com + one at B&N Union Square. Princetonians: There's one signed copy left at @Labyrinth Books; more coming.
@citylightsbooks.bsky.socialTHIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT
@citylightsbooks.bsky.socialTONIGHT at City Lights LIVE!
🌝 Monday 9/21 7pm PT/10pm ET
Diane Williams with Rita Bullwinkel
I LIKED REX
[New York Review of Books]
Attend in-store or register here: citylights.com/events/diane...
