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Love this teaching activity via the Zinn Education Project.

"I want a double-sided headstone. On one side, I want it to say, 'Race Man' and that means a man who doesn’t dislike other races, but who’s proud of his own and wants to lift it up. The other side is going to say, 'Easily Amused.’Julian Bond Excerpt from an interview with Julian Bond. Included in the New Republic’s review of 'Race Man,' published by City Lights.

"Perhaps more people will decide that buying books through Amazon is not the greatest experience ever, and that they should reward indie bookstores for their resilience and ingenuity in the face of the global crisis." Louder for those in the back.

If you’re a fan of Bob Kaufman, whose Collected Poems we published in 2019, and you listen to hip-hop, we must recommend Bob’s Son, the new album by R.A.P. Ferreira that holds up the legendary beat poet/Black surrealist as its inspiration. It contains a version of Kaufman's "Abomunist Manifesto." Also check out the older track "Golden Sardine," notable for the couplet Heard y’all still experiment with dirty Henny / Me, I publish the City Lights like Ferlinghetti.

Nicole Perlroth (cyber security reporter for NYT Times) is our guest tonight on #CityLightsLIVE. Read this interview we just put up!

It's been working, but not without customers out there like you, who choose to shop with independent booksellers. We love what we do - your support goes a long way to keep the flame lit.

Annual posting! You can stay in this year and have this on in the background as you haunt your own home.

Our friends at the Allen Ginsberg blog gathered all the Diane remembrances here.

We're partnering with our dear friends at Vesuvio for a bookstore/cafe special. Bring your City Lights receipt to Vesuvio (now in Kerouac Alley) for a $5 well drink, Anchor Steam, or Modelo Especial! Valid only for the date stamped on your receipt, good for one drink only.

New episode of our podcast! Kerri Arsenault & Kurt Andersen discussing their new books from St. Martin's Press and Random House. Listen and subscribe on your device to LIVE! From City Lights for more each wee

I’d like my daily bread however you arrange it, and I’d also like to be bread, or sustenance for some others even after I’ve left. A song they can walk a trail with.

From our beloved Shakespeare and Co. in Paris.

We just learned what SF State's Poetry Center has planned for this Bob Kaufman celebration Thursday night and we're SO excited. Register: https://poetry.sfsu.edu//29160-collected-poems-bob-kaufman

The poetry of Sylvia Plath > the poetry of Ted Hughes Thanks, bye!

This holiday season it's really important to show care for small businesses.

One of the better genres out there, and currently growing by the minute.

Now is the time to figure out how to support the the places in the world that sustain you, make you feel good ... so that they’ll be there for you to visit once the pandemic is over. -- our own Stacey Lewis