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Kubrick: An Odyssey
Robert Kolker $35.00 Add to cartNeighbors and Other Stories
Diane Oliver $27.00 Add to cartMartyr!
Kaveh Akbar $28.00 Add to cartMy Friends
Hisham Matar $28.99 Add to cartThe Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History
Manjula Martin $29.00 Add to cartThe Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story
Sam Wasson $32.99 Add to cartThe MANIAC
Benjamin Labatut $28.00 Add to cartBlood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
Brian Merchant $30.00 Add to cart
Our Story
City Lights Bookstore was founded by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti in 1953, and became an instant gathering place for readers, writers, artists, and activists. In 1955, Ferlinghetti launched City Lights Publishers with the now-famous Pocket Poets Series. Find out how it all began.
Recently Published by City Lights
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Isthmus to Abya Yala: City Lights Spotlight Series #23
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The Delicacy of Embracing Spirals
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The Crystal Text
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Emerald Wounds: Selected Poems
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Metamorphoses: City Lights Spotlight No. 22
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Lojman
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Women Who Change the World: Stories from the Fight for Social Justice
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Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice
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Staff Picks
Five Little Indians
Michelle Good $18.50 Add to cartMotor Spirit: The Long Hunt for the Zodiac
Jarett Kobek $22.50 Add to cartHow to Find Zodiac
Jarett Kobek $22.50 Add to cartSome People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
Patricia Evangelista $30.00 Add to cartThank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir
Sly Stone $30.00 Add to cartA Daydreamy Child Takes a Walk
Gianni Rodari $18.95 Add to cartThe MANIAC
Benjamin Labatut $28.00 Add to cartEconomy of the Unlost: (reading Simonides of Keos with Paul Celan) (Revised)
Anne Carson $35.00 Add to cartAmerican Prometheus: The Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture Oppenheimer
Kai Bird $25.00 Add to cart
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