City Lights Publishers: 100 books
Loaded
A Disarming History of the Second Amendment
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
"Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's Loaded is like a blast of fresh air. She is no fan of guns or of our absurdly permissive laws surrounding them. But she does not merely take the liberal side of the familiar debate."--Adam Hochschild, The New York Review of Books
**"If . . . anyone at all really wants...
Spying on Democracy
Government Surveillance, Corporate Power and Public Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Until the watershed leak of top-secret documents by Edward Snowden to the Guardian UK and the Washington Post, most Americans did not realize the extent to which our government is actively acquiring personal information from telecommunications companies and other corporations. As made startlingly...
by Yusuf Atilgan
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
"My heroes are Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar, Oguz Atay, and Yusuf Atilgan. I have become a novelist by following their footsteps . . . I love Yusuf Atilgan; he manages to remain local although he benefits from Faulkner's works and the Western traditions."--Orhan Pamuk
"Motherland Hotel...
by Hassan Daoud
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Hassan Daoud is one of the Arabic language world's premier novelists, with a good media profile. He is the editor of the cultural supplement in Beirut's daily paper, and his work has appeared in the European and American press as well -- he was published in 2006 in the New York Times Magazine.
Four...
by Ben Ehrenreich
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
A bearded man in a badly soiled suit known only as The Stranger wanders an apocalyptic landscape on the fringes of a dying metropolis, looking for a way to "get back on top." Thwarted and rejected at every turn by old friends and strangers alike-even by the author of this novel, whom he...
Winged Shoes and a Shield
Collected Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
"A walking badass of a book."—Rolling Stone
Hallucinating between childhood and manhood, Eddie Burnett is both hero and anti-hero in this hard-hitting collection of linked stories. Coming of age in California's post-war suburbs and freefalling through the turbulence of the sixties...
by Reverend Billy Talen
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Published on Earth Day, Friday, April 22nd, 2016 to maximize publicity.
Book differs from his previous titles on consumerism & shopping as he focuses here on the earth/environmentalism/conservation.
Reverend Billy is a constant and vital presence on the streets of New York, and other...
Crusade 2.0
The West's Resurgent War on Islam
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
In his official response to the attacks of September 11, George W. Bush invoked the Crusades, tapping into a centuries-long history of fear and aggression. The West's longstanding perception of Islam as a threat has taken on new and more complex implications in the twenty-first century, as years of...
by David Buuck, Juliana Spahr
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
First book of fiction from acclaimed poet Juliana Spahr. Her previous books have received national review attention from the NY Times, Ms. Magazine, Publishers Weekly, The Believer, Chicago Review, Boston Review, Huffington Post, and elsewhere.
Book excerpted last year in BOMB Magazine
Characters...
by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Mattilda's most recent book has been a sensation -- went back to print almost immediately and has garnered a huge amount of press. Her following and her audience will be waiting to hear the inside scoop on the life and times of this radical queer with a scathing sense of humor and a non-stop commitment...
Friends, Followers and the Future
How Social Media are Changing Politics, Threatening Big Brands, and Killing Traditional Media
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
There’s a revolution going on, as ever-accelerating developments in digital information technologies change nearly every aspect of how we live, work, play, do business, and engage in politics. Share and share alike-the numbers say it all as billions of people worldwide flock to online media and...
by Thomas Glave
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2013
Nominated for the 2010 Stonewall Book Award, the oldest book award given for outstanding achievement in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Literature
A woman is haunted by the atrocities committed by her husband, and makes a heart-wrenching decision about atonement; secret fears and unspoken...
Retablos
Stories From a Life Lived Along the Border
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
Octavio: Selling and Marketing Points
Accessible writing that is a mix of memoir and flash fiction. Stories quickly lead readers to dramatic, emotional moments, and each vignette builds upon the next.
Similar to the artistic trajectory of Sam Shepard, Octavio...
I Must Resist
Bayard Rustin's Life in Letters
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
BAYARD RUSTIN POSTHUMOUSLY AWARDED THE 2013 PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM
A master strategist and tireless activist, Bayard Rustin is best remembered as the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, one of the largest nonviolent protests ever held in the United States. He brought Gandhi's...