Canadian poet, translator, and classicist Anne Carson has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature 🏆❤️

“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

@benehrenreich.bsky.social is coming to California to celebrate his new book, HOLD STILL, published by City Lights!

Join 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 #BookSky #Democracy #USPolitics #USLaw

R.K. Maril / A Queer Guide to Saving Democracy | City Lights Booksellers & Publishers

Wednesday, November 4, 2026, 7:00 pm PST R.K. Maril / A Queer Guide to Saving Democracy This event is free to the public and will take place both instore and online. The virtual part of the event will be hosted on the Zoom platform. You will need access...

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Join 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 #BookSky #Democracy #USPolitics #USLaw

R.K. Maril / A Queer Guide to Saving Democracy | City Lights Booksellers & Publishers

Wednesday, November 4, 2026, 7:00 pm PST R.K. Maril / A Queer Guide to Saving Democracy This event is free to the public and will take place both instore and online. The virtual part of the event will be hosted on the Zoom platform. You will need access...

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From @hardlystrictly.bsky.social to Caffe Trieste to @citylightsbooks.bsky.social … pilgrimage time for me.

We'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

THOMAS 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... @harvardbookstore.bsky.social @citylightsbooks.bsky.social @politicsandprose.bsky.social

TOMORROW 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-... @seagullbooks.bsky.social

Truong Tran, author of "How to Exi(s)t: A Poet’s Memoir" TOUR! More info: citylights.com/publishing/a...

Join 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/...

Thanks to everyone who came to the book launch for MY HUNGRY GHOSTS AT @citylightsbooks.bsky.social ! It was a joyful event!

Oh 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!

What 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 🤍

Eleni 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...

Congrats 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

SF 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.

TONIGHT 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...

Next Weds, Jack White will be at City Lights reading & signing copies of his new work JACK WHITE: Collected Lyrics & Selected Writing He will be in conversation with City Lights Events Director, Peter Maravelis! Join us in the bookstore and be sure to register here: citylights.com/events/jack-...

"All of the pieces are reflections of a son with a hole in his heart trying to make sense of a world without his mother. A truly beautiful tribute to a remarkable woman."—Candace Smith, @ala-booklist.bsky.social on HOLD STILL by @benehrenreich.bsky.social forthcoming from City Lights, Oct 13

Join us for a night of poetry at City Lights Bookstore tonight! Brenda Hillman and Robert Hass join us to chat about their new work. @weslpress.bsky.social @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social citylights.com/events/brend...

How do I claim my identity as a writer when I also dread the act of reading?” he asked. Truong Tran in conversation about his new book, HOW TO EXI(S)T: A Poet's Memoir, with Nicolle Delgado @eastbayexpress.com eastbayexpress.com/truong-tran-...

Truong Tran confronts language and identity

Truong Tran confronts language and identity: Bay Area poet explores dyslexia, queerness and exclusion in his new memoir.

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Save the date! Join us for the launch of MY HUNGRY GHOSTS on Tuesday, Sept. 22 at 7 pm at City Lights in San Francisco! @citylightsbooks.bsky.social Link to register: www.outgoing.world/activity/may...

May-lee Chai (Book Launch for "MY HUNGRY GHOSTS") in San Francisco

Join award-winning author May-lee Chai and California Poet Laureate Lee Herrick for an intimate conversation on ancestral hauntings, diaspora, and healing. Hosted at City Lights, the legendary radical...

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“Can a question be a story? Maybe that’s the wrong question to ask. Or the wrong way to ask it.”— @benehrenreich.bsky.social in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social Read excerpts from his forthcoming book HOLD STILL, to be pub'd by City Lights Oct 13! jewishcurrents.org/hold-still

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"Can a question be a story? Maybe that’s the wrong question to ask. Or the wrong way to ask it."

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@skyeperryman.bsky.social offers an accessible antidote to political despair with her new—and first!—book, ORDINARY PEOPLE, EXTRAORDINARY TIMES: How to Reclaim Your Power, Fight for Freedom & Reimagine Democracy (published by @tenspeedpress.bsky.social) Buy here: citylights.com/praxis/ordin...

Check out this wonderful footage of James Janko, author of The Wire-Walker, and Maxine Hong Kingston in conversation at the fabulous @citylightsbooks.bsky.social in celebration of the release of James's novel! #shoplocal www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul75...

CITY LIGHTS LIVE! James Janko in conversation with Maxine Hong Kingston

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(36/61) “Dead children become sediment, a red moon / hovers over a river. From a telephone pole, / a barn owl watches the house.” —Thea Matthews, “At Gramma’s House” (GRIME) @citylightsbooks.bsky.social #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets

🦋 TONIGHT Tues. 9/8 7pm PT/10pm ET Join us to hear Alan Chong Lau & Russell C. Leong discuss their new books, THIS SINGLE ROAD: Postcards and Notebooks from Kyoto [Entre Rios Press], & MOTH SUTRA [UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press] Attend in-person or register: citylights.com/events/alan-...

“All readers, even the youngest ones, deserve libraries that represent them.”— Gloria Steinem RIP 1934 - 2026 🤍

I came upon Mr Hardin standing in front of the courthouse, looking up. "Son," he said, "look way up yonder. No! Up there." It was a buzzard he wanted me to see, a black speck way up for no reason unless glory. Some beings eat the dead and inhabit the sky. -- Wendell Berry 1934 - 2026