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NEWS FROM CITY LIGHTS BOOKSELLERS AND PUBLISHERS
www.citylights.com
February 2008

Featured bookstore event: Wednesday, February 13, 2008, 7 pm
National Book Foundation “5 under 35” Award-winner Samantha Hunt reads from her new novel The Invention of Everything Else

In this newsletter...



Freedom of Art Celebration with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and SF Poet Laureates
Tuesday, February 12, at 6:30 pm
YBCA Grand Lobby and Forum
701 Mission St., San Francisco, CA 94103

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts exercises its freedom to present thought-provoking and controversial contemporary art by hosting a free event which includes a reading of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" and an exhibition of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's controversial paintings. Ferlinghetti's paintings were removed from a building's lobby in San Francisco because of complaints about the content. At 7:00 pm, there will be a reading of "Howl" by San Francisco's past and present poet laureates Jack Hirschman, devorah major, and Janice Mirikitani, and performer/poet Khalil Anthony. A reception will follow the reading.



Recommended Reads from the City Lights staff

Teach the Free Man
Stories
by Peter Nathaniel Malae

Peter Nathaniel Malae's debut is a hard-hitting foray into the human condition. The stories in this collection burn brightly with vigor and honesty. Using the backdrop of prison life as his canvas, Malae's gripping prose delves deeply into the intricacies of social structure, power dynamics, and how, in the face of overwhelming odds, one can find redemption. His work has been compared to that of Nelson Algren and Richard Wright. A voice to watch for in the years to come.

-- Recommended by Peter



Woman
An Intimate Geography
by Natalie Angier

Well, I hadn't picked up a so-called "women's health book" in years, not since getting the tome Our Bodies, Ourselves, which is much more of a reference book. By serious contrast, Natalie Angier is a fantastic writer who covers just about every subject worth knowing about women's bodies at all stages of life, and she answers many questions you didn't even know to ask!

-- Recommended by Stacey



City Lights Top 10 paperbacks for the month of January

1. What Is the What by Dave Eggers (Vintage)
2. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami (Vintage)
3. The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (Random/Knopf)
4. Contrary Notions by Michael Parenti (City Lights)
5. Travels in the Scriptorium by Paul Aster (St. Martin's Press)
6. You'll Be Okay by Edie Kerouac-Parker (City Lights)
7. The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007 edited by Dave Eggers (Houghton Mifflin)
8. 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl by Daniel Pinchbeck (Tarcher)
9. The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts by Milan Kundera (Harper Collins)
10. The Best American Short Stories 2007 edited by Stephen King (Houghton Mifflin)



City Lights Top 10 hardcovers for the month of January

1. Poetry As Insurgent Art by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (New Directions)
2. On the Road: The Original Scroll by Jack Kerouac (Viking Books)
3. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Penguin/Riverhead)
4. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks (Knopf)
5. The Art of Simple Food by Alice L. Waters (Clarkson Potter)
6. Rex Ray: Art + Design by Rex Ray and Michael Paglia (Chronicle Books)
7. The Atheist's Bible by Joan Konner (Ecco)
8. The Hypocrisy of Disco by C*** Hayward (Chronicle Books)
9. Beat Poets edited by Carmela Ciuraru (Everyman's Library)
10. The Best American Comics 2007 edited by Chris Ware (Houghton Mifflin)
Events at the Bookstore


Wednesday, February 13, 2008, 7 pm
Samantha Hunt
reading from The Invention of Everything Else (Houghton Mifflin)

Thursday, February 14, 2008, 7 pm
Donna Haraway
discussing When Species Meet (University of Minnesota Press)

Tuesday, February 19, 2008, 7 pm
James Lenfestey
reading from A Cartload of Scrolls: One Hundred Poems in the Manner of T'ang Dynasty Poet Han-Shan (Holy Cow! Press)

Thursday, February 21, 2008, 7 pm
Celebration for Poet In New York
A new bilingual edition of Frederico García Lorca's masterpiece translated by Pablo Medina and Mark Statman (Grove Press)

Thursday, February 28, 2008, 7 pm
Percival Everett
reading from Wounded (Graywolf Press) (winner of the 2006 PEN USA fiction award)


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City Lights authors on the road

David Barsamian,
editor of Targeting Iran will be in Southern California.

Paul Madonna,
author of All Over Coffee will be signing books at the Warming Hut in San Francisco.
Events Around Town

Lit & Lunch, presented by the Center for the Art of Translation
111 Minna Gallery
Tuesday, February 12, 12:30-1:30 pm, FREE

One of the most widely read African novelists of our time, Ngugi wa Thiongo's latest novel The Wizard of the Crow was released in English translation last year to wide acclaim. Since being imprisoned for his writing in his native Kenya in the 1970s, Ngugi has written exclusively in his native Gikuyu language and has been a strong activist for the strengthening of authentic African literary traditions.
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