City Lights Publishers: 100 books

"In Learning to Die in the Anthropocene, Roy Scranton draws on his experiences in Iraq to confront the grim realities of climate change. The result is a fierce and provocative book."--Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History "Roy Scranton's...

O Magazine's Top 20 Books to Read - Summer 2017 "Best known for his acclaimed Haitian trilogy—All Souls' Rising, Master of the Crossroads and The Stone That the Builder Refused—Bell draws on his own experiences with voodoo possession to re-create his characters' descent into a sinister...

* In the American innovative tradition in poetry, Shurin's work will appeal to fans of Michael Palmer, Lyn Hejinian, Alice Notley, and Nathaniel Mackey. * Shurin's book The Paradise of Forms: Selected Poems (1999), was chosen by PW as one of their Best Books of the Year.

Written from the perspective of someone who was shot by police, and who advocates for justice for himself and the police officer killed. Mumia gives a voice to African Americans whose lives have been taken by police activity. Mumia names our current political moment in order to transform...

Ali Liebegott has won a dedicated and enthusiastic readership with her first book, including writer and reviewer Kevin Killian, who calls her "insanely talented," and compares her to Kerouac, Wojnarowicz and Anne Carson. Liebegott will be touring with the Sister Spit Roadshow, timed...

In the style of her previous novel "Paper Conspiracies," Daitch takes readers on a fantastic journey, filled with historical references and intellectual adventures. Revered novelist, praised by some of the most important writers of the 20th century, including David Foster Wallace and Salman Rushdie.

Longlisted for the 2019 PEN Translation Award! The New York Times calls Turkish writer Asli Erdogan one of the "11 Powerful Women We Met Around the World in 2017" "Aslı Erdoğan is an exceptionally perceptive and sensitive writer who always produces perfect literary texts."--Orhan...

"Benjamin Hedin went looking for the civil rights movement's past, but he also ran smack into the present, which can suddenly look like the past and then just as suddenly look totally different. By bringing stirring people like Septima Clark into focus, Hedin does what good historians do, but...

Van Morrison is one of a handful of truly iconic twentieth century artists. Along with Bob Dylan, he was one of the first contemporary lyricists to infuse a serious poetic sensibility into popular music. A colossal influence on a wide range of fellow musicians, he has been a singular beacon of artistic...

With one suitcase and a map drawn on a bar napkin as her only guide, sixteen-year old Loren travels to Moron del la Frontera in Andalusia to learn to play flamenco guitar from the Gypsies. Here she joins an extended family of flamenco artists and foreign aficionados whose adventures over a twenty-year...

"The book that most shocked me this year for its literary quality is called Tzompaxtle, although in English it has another title, Torn from the World. The author is John Gibler, a real outlaw."--Diego Enrique Osorno, author of El Cartel de Sinaloa Andres Tzompaxtle Tecpile was torn...

* How this book distinguishes itself in the market and from the other 3 recently published books on the same subject:  It is the the only impeachment-related title that looks at Constitutional law and the history of past impeachments as lessons for understanding our current situation with...

An Iranian family embroiled in Islamic revolution, the hostage crisis, incest, and exile in America Forced to flee the country with their parents as Khomeini rises to power, Nora and Jahan Ellahi rise to the challenge of anti-Iranian hostility in America. Breaking free from their intense attachment...

Last Epic Novel from the Legend This novel can be considered an "epic", but it owes this classification as much to its sweeping scope, richness of vision, and heterogeneous approach to genre as it does to its length. Benítez Rojo has classified this book himself as historical, epic, autobiographical,...