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Wednesday, July 02, 2008
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Events at City Lights in July
Category: Writing and Poetry
All events are free and are held at City Lights, 261 Columbus Ave SF CA 94133
415 362 8193
The Kids of Widney High
Sunday, July 6, 2008, 5:30 p.m.
visit City Lights Bookstore
for a special appearance
Alan Black @ Vesuvio's Cafe
Tuesday, July 8, 2008, 7 p.m.
celebrating the release of
Kick the Balls: An Offensive Suburban Odyssey
published by Penguin Books
Rebecca Shoenkopf
Thursday, July 10, 2008, 7 pm
discussing
Commie Girl in the O.C.
published by Verso Press
Labor Fest Reading
Sunday, July 13, 2008, 5:00 P.M.
Labor, working-class, and political poetry
Hosted by Alice Rogoff
with
Margaret Cooley, Susan Ford, Keith Cooley, Phyllis Holliday, Jerry Path, M.C. Warrior, and Tom Wayman
Herb Gold
Thursday, July 17, 2008, 7 pm
celebrating the release of
Still Alive: A Temporary Condition
published by Arcade Publishing
Anthropological Intelligence: A talk with David Price
Tuesday, July 22, 2008, 7:00 P.M.
An exploration of the influence upon American anthropologists from government agencies during war time. George E. Lewis
Tuesday, July 29, 2008, 7 pm
discussing
A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music
published by University of Chicago press
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Thursday, July 03, 2008
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Recommended Reads from City Lights Staff
Current mood:  amused
Category: Writing and Poetry
In Defense of Food
An Eater's Manifesto
by Michael Pollan
This book is as interesting as all the reviewers keep telling us it is. Michael Pollan doesn't address every angle of every issue, but this book is a great starting point for thinking more critically and carefully about the foods we buy and eat, and how those choices impact our environment and our bodies.
?Recommended by Maia
.. On the Lower Frequencies
by Erick Lyle
Erick Lyle, long known as "Iggy Scam", wrote and published a number of zines including the incredible SCAM?a document about dumpster-diving, photocopy-stealing, abandoned-building-squatting, graffiti-writing punks surviving in dot-bomb San Francisco. This book collects the writings from that zine and others, providing an alternate history of the late '90s and early '00s. Dedicated to the concept of fighting FOR rather than fighting AGAINST, Lyle and a ragtag band of outlaws have kept the truly radical, outsider soul of San Francisco alive in a Starbucks world.
?Recommended by Suzanne | ..
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Saturday, July 05, 2008
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Most popular books in June at City Lights
Current mood:  weird
Category: Writing and Poetry
City Lights bestsellers (paperbacks) for the month of June1. Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje (Random/Knopf)
2. The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño (St. Martin's Press)
3. No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July (Scribner)
4. The Mistress's Daughter by A.M. Homes (Penguin)
5. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper Collins)
6. Alice Waters and Chez Panisse by Thomas McNamee (Penguin)
7. Dying to Live: A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid by Joseph Nevins and Mizue Aizeki (City Lights)
8. Bambi vs Godzilla by David Mamet (Random/Knopf)
9. After Dark by Haruki Murakami (Random/Knopf)
10. Michael Tolliver Lives by Armistead Maupin (Harper Perennial)
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