LIVE! From City Lights

Dec 08 2024 174 ep. 62 mins 77
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The official podcast for City Lights Publishers & Booksellers in San Francisco. Featuring readings and archives. Hosted by City Lights events coordinator Peter Maravelis.

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Mosab Abu Toha reading from "Forest of Noise: Poems"

Dec 08 2024 73 mins  
Mosab Abu Toha reading from “Forest of Noise: Poems” by Mosab Abu Toha, published by Knopf Publishing Group You can purchase copies of “Forest of Noise: Poems” directly from City Lights here: https://citylights.com/forest-of-noise-poems/ Originally broadcast via Zoom on Monday, November 4, 2024. Hosted by Peter Maravelis. This event was made possible by support from the

Daniel Borzutzky in conversation with Ricardo Alberto Maldonado

Nov 17 2024 56 mins  
Daniel Borzutzky in conversation with Ricardo Alberto Maldonado, celebrating the publication of "The Murmuring Grief of the Americas" by Daniel Borzutzky, published by Coffee House Press You can purchase copies of "The Murmuring Grief of the Americas" directly from City Lights here: https://citylights.com/murmuring-grief-of-the-americas/ Originally broadcast via Zoom on Wednesday

Bushra Rehman in conversation with May-lee Chai

Nov 12 2024 69 mins  
Bushra Rehman in conversation with May-lee Chai, celebrating the publication of "Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion" by Bushra Rehman, published by Flatiron Books. You can purchase copies of "Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion" directly from City Lights here: https://citylights.com/general-fiction/roses-in-the-mouth-of-a-lion-2/ Originally broadcast via Zoom on Tuesday, July 30, 2024. Host

Chukwuebuka Ibeh in conversation with francesca ekwuyasi

Aug 27 2024 72 mins  
City Lights celebrates the publication of "Blessings," a novel by Chukwuebuka Ibeh, published by Doubleday. Purchase here: https://citylights.com/blessings/ Obiefuna has always been the black sheep of his family—sensitive where his father, Anozie, is pragmatic, a dancer where his brother, Ekene, is a natural athlete. But when Obiefuna’s father witnesses an intimate moment bet

Tarek El-Ariss

Aug 19 2024 40 mins  
Tarek El-Ariss in conversation with Peter Maravelis, celebrating the publication of "Water on Fire: A Memoir of War" by Tarek El-Ariss, published by Other Press. Purchase here: https://citylights.com/middle-east/water-on-fire-memoir-of-war/ "Water on Fire" tells a story of immigration that starts in a Beirut devastated by the Lebanese Civil War (1975–90), continues with experie

Yanis Varoufakis

Aug 12 2024 46 mins  
City Lights and Melville House present Yanis Varoufakis in conversation with Peter Maravelis, discussing "Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism" by Yanis Varoufakis, published by Melville House. Purchase here: https://citylights.com/topographies/technofeudalism/ Perhaps we were too distracted by the pandemic, or the endless financial crises, or the rise of TikTok. But under cov

Joyce Carol Oates in conversation with Steve Wasserman

Aug 05 2024 67 mins  
City Lights and Akashic Books celebrate the publication of "Joyce Carol Oates: Letters to a Biographer," edited by Greg Johnson, published by Akashic Books. Purchase here: https://citylights.com/new-nonfiction-in-hardcover/joyce-carol-oates-letters-to-a-biograp/ This rich compilation of Joyce Carol Oates’s letters across four decades displays her warmth and generosity, her dro

Jakuta Alikavazovic in conversation with JiaJing Liu

Jul 29 2024 70 mins  
City Lights, Fern Books, Center for the Art of Translation, & Villa Albertine San Francisco celebrate the publication of "Like a Sky Inside" by Jakuta Alikavazovic – translated from the French by Daniel Levin Becker, published by Fern Books. Purchase here: https://citylights.com/european-literature/like-a-sky-inside/ In March 2020, a young woman spends the night in the Louvre

Ana Raquel Minian in conversation with Irma Herrera

Jul 24 2024 60 mins  
Ana Raquel Minian in conversation with Irma Herrera discussing Minian's, "In the Shadow of Liberty: The Invisible History of Immigrant Detention in the United States," published by Viking. Purchase here: https://citylights.com/new-nonfiction-in-hardcover/in-the-shadow-of-liberty-immigrant-det/ In 2018, many Americans watched in horror as children were torn from their parents at t

Greg Sarris In Conversation with Blaise Zerega

Jul 17 2024 51 mins  
City Lights, ALTA Journal, & Heyday Books celebrate the publication of "The Forgetters: Stories" by Greg Sarris (Heyday Books). Purchase books by Greg Sarris here: https://citylights.com/?search_type=author&s=Greg+Sarris Celebrated storyteller & tribal leader Greg Sarris offers a contemplative & enchanting story cycle in "The Forgetters," a collection that blends into an unsuspec