Happy Publication Day to editor Jordan Elgrably
STORIES FROM THE CENTER OF THE WORLD: New Middle East Fiction & contributors including Salar Abdoh Mai Al-Nakib May Haddad Omar D. Foda 🇵🇸 Omar El Akkad Ahmed Al-Mahdi

Happy Publication Day to editor Jordan Elgrably STORIES FROM THE CENTER OF THE WORLD: New Middle East Fiction & contributors including Hanif Kureishi Sarah AlKahly-Mills 🇱🇧 سارة الكاحلي ميلز Ahmed Naji Abdellah Taïa MaluHalasa Farah Ahamed 🍉 Nektaria Anastasiadou BOOKFABULOUS grungyflaneur Natasha Tynes 🇯🇴🇺🇸

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Join us tomorrow to celebrate the launch of Rusty Morrison's new collection, RISK, published by Black Ocean. She will be reading alongside poet Maw Shein Win. Register here: citylights.com/events/rusty-m…

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RIP poet David Shapiro, pictured here smoking one of the president's cigars during the 1968 occupation of Low Library at Columbia University. Thanks to Lucy Sante for sharing this.

On May 10, we'll host Aron Aji and Selin Gökçesu to talk about their mind-blowing translation of Ebru Ojen's Lojman, which recently received the Republic of Consciousness Prize. Free, virtual, open-to-all. Register here: literaturcapodcast.com/turkish-litera…

Our new book from City Lights Books is on view Politics and Prose in DC w/ Hanif Kureishi Mai Al-Nakib Jordan Elgrably Omar El Akkad MaluHalasa et alia

This Monday, Amy R. Wong and Christopher Rovee discuss how the challenges with English speech and language in the 19th century relate to the current issues in English studies. Register here: citylights.com/events/a-nosta…

Join us for FIRST FRIDAYS: Leave it to the Prose! This May 3 at 5 pm. Enjoy readings by London Pinkney, Elodie Townsend, and Matt Pacelli, with hosts Carlos Quinteros III and soledad con carne.

The event will be in Jack Kerouac Alley.

If you're planning to watch tonight's livestream, no need to register. Simply join us at this Zoom link at 7pm PT / 10pm ET: us02web.zoom.us/j/85673959665

Next week! If you're in the San Francisco area, don't miss the fantastic Rusty Morrison reading from her new book RISK with Maw Shein Win at City Lights on May 7: buff.ly/43PXh1u City Lights Books

From the City Lights archives: A publicity photo of Paul Auster, 1987.
Caption reads: Paul Auster, author of IN THE COUNTRY OF LAST THINGS, to be published by Viking on April 20 at $15.95, and CITY OF GLASS, to be published by Penguin on April 7 at $5.95.
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Tonight: We hope to see you at City Lights Books, where beloved book buyer Paul Yamazaki will be in conversation with our editor Oscar Villalon about Paul’s new book, “Reading the Room: A Bookseller’s Tale.” citylights.com/events/paul-ya…

Join us this Thursday at 7pm to celebrate LIKE A SKY INSIDE (Fern Books), by Jakuta Alikavazovic, translated from the French by Daniel Levin Becker. Sign up for the livestream here: citylights.com/events/jakuta-…

Despite it all, the strawberries never stropped to grow!!
Despite all the pain, happy second anniversary!!
I wish I had taken the photo of my grandfather with me before I left it, before I left our house. I never imagined the house would be bombed.
Despite it all, my grandfather…

Refaat and I were supposed to attend the Pal Writes literary festival at UPenn in September 2023.
Refaat very much wanted to travel and take part but he couldn’t attend a visa interview at the US embassy because of the siege and occupation.
I went, however, and I attended the…

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