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The official podcast for City Lights Publishers & Booksellers in San Francisco. Featuring readings and archives. Hosted by City Lights events coordinator Peter Maravelis.
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City Lights and Duke University Press celebrate the publication of Curating Deviance: Programming the Queer Film Canon by Marc Francis, published by Duke University Press.
You can purchase copies of Curating Deviance: Programming the Queer Film Canon here: https://citylights.com/curating-deviance/
Originally broadcast via Zoom on Wednesday, March 18, 2026. Hosted by Peter Maravelis. Made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation: citylights.com/foundation
Rae Alexandra and Adrienne Simms celebrate their new book Unsung Heroines: 35 Women Who Changed the Bay Area, published by City Lights.
You can purchase copies of Unsung Heroines: 35 Women Who Changed the Bay Area here: https://citylights.com/unsung-heroines35-women-who-changed/
Originally held onsite at City Lights and broadcast via Zoom on Thursday, March 5, 2026. Hosted by Peter Maravelis. Made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation: citylights.com/foundation
Jasmin ‘Iolani Hakes reads from her new novel The Pōhaku, published by HarperVia.
You can purchase copies of The Pōhaku here: https://citylights.com/pohaku/
Originally held onsite at City Lights and broadcast via Zoom on Thursday, February 12, 2026. Hosted by Peter Maravelis. Made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation: citylights.com/foundation
City Lights and Duke University Press celebrate the publication of My Father, the Messiah: A Memoir – by Gil Z. Hochberg, published by Duke University Press.
You can purchase copies of My Father, the Messiah: A Memoir here: https://citylights.com/my-father-the-messiah/
Originally broadcast via Zoom on Tuesday, January 17, 2026. Hosted by Peter Maravelis. Made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation: citylights.com/foundation
Content Warning: This episode contains a brief mention of self-harm/suicide.
City Lights and Melville House Books celebrate the publication of Crucible – By John Sayles, published by Melville House.
You can purchase copies of Crucible here: https://citylights.com/new-fiction-in-hardcover/crucible-3/
Originally held on site and broadcast via Zoom on Wednesday, January 21, 2026. Hosted by Peter Maravelis. Made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation: citylights.com/foundation
Readings and conversation with Tshaka Campbell, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Paul S. Flores, Margaret Elysia Garcia, and Briana Muñoz, as City Lights celebrates an exceptional indie press.
Founded by Matt Sedillo and David A. Romero, El Martillo Press publishes writers whose pens strike the page with clear intent; words with purpose to pry apart assumed norms and to hammer away at injustice. To learn more about El Martillo Press visit their website: elmartillopress.com
Originally held on site and broadcast via Zoom on Thursday, December 11, 2025. Hosted by Peter Maravelis. Made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation: citylights.com/foundation
City Lights, Project Censored, and Seven Stories Press celebrate the publication of State of The Press 2026 – Edited by Mickey Huff, Shealeigh Voitl, and Andy Lee Roth, published by The Censored Press.
You can purchase copies of State of the Free Press 2026 at project-censored.org
Originally broadcast via Zoom on Wednesday, December 10, 2025. Hosted by Peter Maravelis.Made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation: citylights.com/foundation
Baraka Books, the Before Columbus Foundation, and City Lights celebrate the publication of BLIND PERSISTENCE: The History of the Before Columbus Foundation – Edited by Ishmael Reed and Justin Desmangles (with Carla Blank and Tennessee Reed), published by Baraka Books.
You can purchase copies of BLIND PERSISTENCE: The History of the Before Columbus Foundation here: https://citylights.com/poetry-criticism-biographies/blind-persistence-before-columbus-found/
Originally held at City Lights and broadcast via Zoom on Thursday, December 18, 2025. Hosted by Peter Maravelis. Made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation: citylights.com/foundation
City Lights and the Penguin Poets Series celebrate the publication of Mesopotopia – By Anne Waldman, published by Penguin Books.
You can purchase copies of Mesopotopia here: https://citylights.com/mesopotopia/
Originally held at City Lights and broadcast via Zoom on Thursday, December 4, 2025. Hosted by Peter Maravelis. Made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation: citylights.com/foundation
City Lights and Akashic Books celebrate the publication of The Royal We – by Roddy Bottum, published by Akashic Books.
You can purchase copies of The Royal We here: https://citylights.com/royal-we/
Originally held at City Lights and broadcast via Zoom on Thursday, November 20, 2025. Hosted by Peter Maravelis. Made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation: citylights.com/foundation
City Lights celebrates the publication of Word Time – by devorah major, published by City Lights Books.
You can purchase copies of Word Time here:https://citylights.com/general-poetry/word-time/
Originally held at City Lights and broadcast via Zoom on Thursday, November 7, 2025. Hosted by Peter Maravelis. Made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation: citylights.com/foundation
Suzette Partido discussing “Love Will Save Us, Right?” by LIVE! From City Lights
City Lights celebrates the publication of Fruto: Bearing the Burden of Care – by Daniela Rea – Translator: John Gibler – published by City Lights Books.
You can purchase copies of Fruto: Bearing the Burden of Care here: https://citylights.com/fruto-bearing-the-burden-of-care/
Originally held at City Lights and broadcast via Zoom on Wednesday, November 19, 2025. Hosted by Peter Maravelis. Made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation: citylights.com/foundation
City Lights and Litquake celebrate the publication of We Are Green and Trembling – by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, published by New Directions.
You can purchase copies of We Are Green and Trembling from City Lights here: https://citylights.com/we-are-green-trembling/
Originally held at City Lights and broadcast via Zoom on Thursday day, October 16, 2025. Hosted by Peter Maravelis. Made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation: citylights.com/foundation
Description: City Lights and Princeton University Press celebrate the publication of Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back – By Joshua Clark Davis – Published by Princeton University Press.
You can purchase copies of Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back here: https://citylights.com/new-nonfiction-in-hardcover/police-against-the-movement-sabotage-o/
Originally held at City Lights and broadcast via Zoom on Tuesday, October 7, 2025. Hosted by Peter Maravelis. Made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation: citylights.com/foundation
City Lights and Summit Books present Amanda Uhle in conversation with Vendela Vida, celebrating the publication of her memoir Destroy This House, published by Summit Books/Simon & Schuster.
You can purchase copies of Destroy This House directly from City Lights here: https://citylights.com/new-nonfiction-in-hardcover/destroy-this-house-memoir/
Originally held at City Lights and broadcast via Zoom on Wednesday, October 1, 2025. Hosted by Peter Maravelis. Made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation: citylights.com/foundation
City Lights and the Center for the Art of Translation present Gabriela Alemán in conversation with Dick Cluster, celebrating the publication of her new book Smoke, published by City Lights Books.
You can purchase copies of Smoke directly from City Lights here: https://citylights.com/city-lights-published/smoke/
Originally broadcast via Zoom on Wednesday, October 29, 2025. Hosted by Peter Maravelis. Made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation: citylights.com/foundation
City Lights presents award-winning investigative journalist Will Potter discussing his new book Little Red Barns: Hiding the Truth, from Farm to Fable, published by City Lights Books.
You can purchase copies of Little Red Barns directly from City Lights here: https://citylights.com/little-red-barns/
Originally held onsite at City Lights and broadcast via Zoom on Monday, October 27, 2025. 2024. Hosted by Peter Maravelis. Made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation: citylights.com/foundation
City Lights celebrates the publication of Indigenous Poetics, edited by Inés Hernández-Ávila and Molly McGlennen, published by Michigan State University Press.
You can purchase copies of Indigenous Poetics directly from City Lights here: https://citylights.com/poetry-criticism-biographies/indigenous-poetics/
Originally broadcast via Zoom on Monday, August 18, 2025. Hosted by Peter Maravelis. Made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation: citylights.com/foundation
Mosab Abu Toha reading from “Forest of Noise: Poems” by Mosab Abu Toha, published by Knopf Publishing Group
You can purchase copies of “Forest of Noise: Poems” directly from City Lights here: https://citylights.com/forest-of-noise-poems/
Originally broadcast via Zoom on Monday, November 4, 2024. Hosted by Peter Maravelis.
This event was made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation: citylights.com/foundation
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