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Featured bookstore event: Thursday, January 10th, 7:00pm In this newsletter...
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Get on the 187 Express! The 187 Express has left the station -- poet/performer extraordinario Juan Felipe Herrera will be criss-crossing California and the Southwest with surprise guest performers to celebrate over 30 years of his spirit-filled writing, collected in one of City Lights' newest publications, 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border. The tour kicked off a few weeks ago here at City Lights with Herrera and a gang of word-callers, musicians, local poets, and familia. It was a night of inspired hot orange chalk, cilantro-flavored lollipops and Rice-a-Roni sidewalk art! Johnny Flamingo & Los Hotplates are rumored to appear on future tour dates, so keep checking www.187express.com and be sure to make it when the 187 Express comes to a town near you! Congrats to "Best of '07" City Lights titles! Don't miss these City Lights titles listed in the SF Chronicle's Top Books of 2007: Criminal of Poverty by Tiny, aka Lisa Gray-Garcia & All Over Coffee by Paul Madonna |
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Recommended Reads from the City Lights staff Our Space Resisting the Corporate Control of Culture by Christine Harold "Culture jamming" and "brand hacking" have become popular catch-phrases in the past few years. Activists employing them promise to use the techniques of corporate and political marketeers to demystify the end product -- be it shoes produced by sweatshop labor or "self-financing" wars. Harold takes a long overdue, critical look at the strategies employed by culture jammers and hackers in the past several years, and assesses their successes and limitations in confronting systems of exploitation. -- Recommended by Eric |
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The Hypocrisy of Disco A Memoir by C*** Hayward Beautiful, moving, hilarious, and sad, C*** Hayward's child's-eye view of commune life in the 1970's counterculture is unforgettable. A San Francisco native, Hayward shows us the pleasures and the horrors of a macrobiotic-dieting, schoolbus-dwelling, shop-lifting, pot-smoking, off-the-grid childhood. Her gorgeous descriptions of the Russian River area of California and of the Nevada desert are worth the price of admission alone. -- Recommended by Suzanne and Jeff |
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City Lights Top 10 paperbacks for the month of December 1. The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007 edited by Dave Eggers (Houghton Mifflin) 2. What Is the What by Dave Eggers (Vintage) 3. The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (Random/Knopf) 4. The Best American Short Stories 2007 edited by Stephen King (Houghton Mifflin) 5. Contrary Notions by Michael Parenti (City Lights) 6. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami (Vintage) 7. 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl by Daniel Pinchbeck (Tarcher) 8. You'll Be Okay by Edie Kerouac-Parker (City Lights) 9. What We Say Goes by David Barsamian and Noam Chomsky (Metropolitan Books) 10. Indefensible Space by Michael Sorkin (Routledge) |
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City Lights Top 10 hardcovers for the month of December 1. Poetry As Insurgent Art by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (New Directions) 2. On the Road: The Original Scroll by Jack Kerouac (Viking Books) 3. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks (Knopf) 4. Beat Poets edited by Carmela Ciuraru (Everyman's Library) 5. The Art of Simple Food by Alice L. Waters (Clarkson Potter) 6. Shock Doctrine: Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein (Henry Holt) 7. The Atheist's Bible by Joan Konner (Ecco) 8. The World Without Us by Alan Weisman (Thomas Dunne Books) 9. Instructions for American Servicemen in Iraq during WWII by the United States Army (U Of Chicago) 10. On the Road: 50th Anniversary Edition by Jack Kerouac (Viking Adult) |
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Events at the Bookstore Wednesday, January 9, 2008, 7 pm Jane Rhodes discussing Framing The Black Panthers: The Spectacular Rise Of A Power Icon (New Press) Thursday, January 10th, 7:00pm Dana Frank celebrating the release of Local Girl Makes History: Exploring Northern California's Kitsch Monuments (City Lights Publishers) Saturday, January 12th, 6:00pm NBCC Awards Finalists Announcement Join the NBCC board, in collaboration with Litquake, Book Group Expo, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and City Lights, Amy Tan, Dave Eggers, Daniel Alarcon, AWP board chair Catherine Brady, Maxine Chernoff, W. S. Di Piero, Paul Hoover, Wendy Lesser, Elizabeth Tallent, and others (list in progress) to celebrate the finalists for the NBCC awards in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, criticism, biography, autobiography, lifetime achievement and book reviewing. Former NBCC finalists and awardees Frederick Crews, Dave Eggers, Troy Jollimore, Maxine Hong Kingston, and others will be there to announce the finalists in each category. Followed by a wine and cheese reception. Tuesday, January 15th, 2008, 7 pm Dahr Jamail discussing the subject of his new book Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq (Haymarket Books) This event will take place at The Woman's Building, 3543 18th St. San Francisco, CA 94110 Admission cost is $12.00 Thursday, January 17th, 2008, 7pm Peter Nathaniel Malae reading from Teach the Free Man / Stories (Swallow Press) Tuesday, January 22nd, 7:00pm Michael Parenti Book release party for Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader (City Lights) Sign up for the City Lights Events email newsletter! |
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City Lights authors on the road Dana Frank, author of Local Girl Makes History: Exploring Northern California's Kitsch Monuments will be in Berkeley at Cody's Bookstore (Jan 9) and here at City Lights (Jan 10). Noam Chomsky, author of Interventions will be in Waltham, MA. Michael Parenti, author of Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader will be in Berkeley at Cody's Bookstore (Jan 17) and here at City Lights (Jan 22). Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, author of The Speed of Dreams Selected Writings 2001-2007 will be celebrated in New York. |
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