City Lights Books

SF Weekly Reviews and News

• Literary Tradition Pays a Visit to S.F. with Launch Party for Granta

  By Keith Bowers | Tue, February 7, 2012

  ​Literary magazine Granta is A Very Big Deal. (Writerly circles are sometimes okay with random capitalization.) Its contributors over the years include Sylvia Plath, Saul Bellow, Raymond Carver, More >

• 

  Tradition Pays a Visit

  By : Keith Bowers | Wed, February 01, 2012

  Literary magazine Granta is A Very Big Deal. (Writerly circles are sometimes okay with random capitalization.) Its contributors over the years include Sylvia Plath, Saul Bellow, Raymond Carver, and Milan Kundera. That the London-based quarterly ha... More >

• Ben Marcus Talks About The Flame Alphabet, a Novel Where Language Literally Kills

  By Casey Burchby | Mon, January 30, 2012

  ​In Ben Marcus' new novel, The Flame Alphabet, language has become toxic. People weaken when spoken to and, later, even when they read. They lose mass, energy, and willpower. The symptoms are at More >

• 

  Long-Gone Underground

  By Keith Bowers | Wed, November 30, 2011

  In the early 1970s the terms “experimental film” and “pornographic film” had a big overlap. And Los Angeles had not only a film underground but also a gay underground. Fred Halsted was at the center of these movements. A self-taught filmmaker, Hal... More >

• 

  It Was All a Dream

  By Michael Leaverton | Wed, November 30, 2011

  Most mysteries, written at the speed of sound, suffer in lazy, cheap, and bad writing, which has its charms, mostly in the fun of spotting all the examples of lazy, cheap, and bad writing. The Plot Against Hip Hop suffers in none of these ways, de... More >

• + View More City Lights Books News and Reviews
•   Loading More City Lights Books News and Reviews
• - View Fewer City Lights Books News and Reviews

User Reviews

0 User reviews

• Be the first to review City Lights Books