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City Lights Newsletter | The ideAs of March are upon us...
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Featured bookstore event: Thursday, March 27, 2008, 7 pm In this newsletter...
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The International Zapatista Campaign at City Lights City Lights is proud to announce the release of THE FIRE AND THE WORD, a comprehensive, illustrated history of the Zapatista movement, available in the U.S. for the first time in both English and Spanish-language editions. 2008 commemorates the 25th anniversary of the clandestine founding of the Zapatista movement in the jungles of Chiapas — and in that time a small group of dedicated activists and indigenous organizers has grown into an international movement, the inspiration for countless direct-action groups around the world. The Zapatista International Campaign will heighten its call to action in the coming months on the U.S. leg of its tour, which will include musical concerts and recordings, a photo exhibit, and the release of THE FIRE AND THE WORD, which captures the personal stories, political actions, and thoughts of the movement's prime participants. In the past four years, the Campaign has been presented in over 150 cities around the globe; now, for the first time, this border-crossing activist movement will travel through U.S. cities, hosted by community collectives and literary organizations. As a companion to THE FIRE AND THE WORD, City Lights presents THE SPEED OF DREAMS by Mexico's enigmatic Zapatista leader, Subcommandante Insurgente Marcos. From a retelling of indigenous myths and legends to searing critiques of the U.S. war in Iraq and clandestine radio broadcasts from the jungles of Chiapas, THE SPEED OF DREAMS is a profound selection of writing that gives voice to the literary and critical genius of Latin America's greatest living writer/rebel. |
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WORDS AGAINST WAR: FIVE YEARS TOO MANY! 11:00 am, March 19, 2008 Montgomery and Market Streets (Montgomery BART), SF featuring Jack Hirschman, SF Poet Laureate Guillermo Gómez-Peña, performance artist Rebecca Solnit, author and activist Youth Speaks poets MC James Kass of Youth Speaks It's been five years since the United States government invaded Iraq. Most Iraqis and most of the US public oppose the occupation. The US has spent $2.8 trillion on war and the military since 2003. Over 600,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed according to a recent Johns Hopkins study, and nearly 4,000 US troops have lost their lives. It's time to take action and speak out loudly to stop the war, end the occupation and bring the troops home now. On March 19, the 5th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, there will be demonstrations around the world and a number of direct action protests throughout downtown San Francisco. Please join a selection of San Francisco Bay Area poets and writers who will be reading in the streets and joining the protests. We encourage everyone to come out to show their support for a withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq and an end to this senseless war. City Lights and Direct Action to Stop the War invite you to an anti-war read-out, featuring SF Poet Laureate Jack Hirschman, performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña, author and activist Rebecca Solnit, and MC James Kass of Youth Speaks who'll bring along a posse of dynamic Youth Speaks poets. Join us at 11:00 am at the corner of Montgomery and Market Streets, and then join a noontime action at the SF offices of California Senator Diane Feinstein. For more information, visit ActAgainstWar.net, email takedirectaction@riseup.net, or call (510) 984-2566 |
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Recommended Reads from the City Lights staff Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Sometimes we mean to read the great books, but we're too busy with what's new and exciting. Invisible Man will make you wonder what current novel could possibly compete for your attention. This is a beautiful, brutal, and amazingly prescient work about race in America, and about the conflicting complexities of the human soul. Unforgettable. Recommended by Elaine |
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Rubicon The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland As America's militaristic power grows, the parallels to the Roman Empire become difficult to avoid. For anyone wishing to see how this scenario played out 2,000 years ago, I cannot recommend this book highly enough. The power struggles in the Senate, the divide between rich and poor, the constitutional crises; all are portrayed with the immediacy of contemporary history. Recommended by Jeff |
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City Lights bestsellers (paperbacks) for the month of February 1. Contrary Notions by Michael Parenti (City Lights) 2. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami (Vintage) 3. The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007 edited by Dave Eggers (Houghton Mifflin) 4. Delivery Man by Joe McGinniss Jr. (Grove/Atlantic, Black Cat) 5. Poet in New York by Federico Garcia Lorca (Grove Press) 6. The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (Random/Knopf) 7. Travels in the Scriptorium by Paul Aster (St. Martin's Press) 8. You'll Be Okay by Edie Kerouac-Parker (City Lights) 9. God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (Mariner Books) 10. What is the What by Dave Eggers (Vintage) |
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City Lights bestsellers (hardcovers) for the month of February 1. Poetry As Insurgent Art by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (New Directions) 2. In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan (Penguin Press) 3. On the Road: The Original Scroll by Jack Kerouac (Viking Books) 4. Beat Poets edited by Carmela Ciuraru (Everyman's Library) 5. On the Road: 50th Anniversay Edition by Jack Kerouac (Viking Adult) 6. The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt (Houghton Mifflin) 7. The Art of Simple Food by Alice L. Waters (Clarkson Potter) 8. Helping Me Help Myself by Beth Lisick (William Morrow) 9. Nazi Literature in the Americas by Roberto Bola–o (New Directions) 10. Night Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier (Grove Press) |
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Events at the Bookstore Wednesday, March 12, 2008, 7 pm Paul Pines reading from My Brother's Madness (Curbstone Press) Wednesday, March 19, 2008, 7 pm Jack Hirschman celebrating the release of All That's Left (City Lights) Thursday, March 20, 2008, 7 pm Adam Mansbach reading from The End Of Jews (Spiegel & Grau) Thursday, March 27, 2008, 7 pm Micheline Marcom reading from Draining the Sea (Riverhead Books) Sign up for the City Lights Events email newsletter! |
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City Lights authors on the road this month Juan Felipe Herrera, author of 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border will be in Tucson, Arizona. Dana Frank, author of Local Girl Makes History will be in San Mateo, CA. Sinan Antoon, author of I'Jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody will be in Philadelphia, PA. Maureen Webb, author of Illusions of Security will be in Vancouver, BC. |
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