City Lights Publishers imprint: 99 books
The Peep Diaries
How We're Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Niedzviekci's previous book, "Hello, I’m Special," received much critical recognition and praise. It is now in its third printing, having sold over 10,000 copies. Publications that critically examine pop culture, fame, and digital life will be likely to review this title or publish an interview...
Yokohama Threeway
And Other Small Shames
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Beth Lisick has a dedicated and enthusiastic readership. A member of the popular literary group, Sister Spit, Lisick has performed before audiences nationwide. She is dynamic on the stage, and audiences respond strongly to her work.
In 2002, Lisick was awarded a grant from the California Arts...
by Chinaka Hodge
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Long-Awaited first book by the popular poet and playwright. Chinaka Hodge has toured the U.S. both as a touring poet and as a hip-hop artist with her group the Getback. Her poems, editorials, interviews and prose have been featured in Newsweek, San Francisco Magazine, Believer Magazine, PBS, NPR,...
Who's to Say What's Obscene?
Politics, Culture, and Comedy in America Today
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
These are times of authoritarianism, war, and recession, and the more bad news there is, the more need there is for humor and irreverence to be directed toward the authorities calling the shots. In the spirit of Lenny Bruce and George Carlin, Paul Krassner presents satirical critiques of contemporary...
To Die in Mexico
Dispatches from Inside the Drug War
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
To Die in Mexico combines gripping descriptive writing with fast-paced crime action.
Gives an in-depth treatment of Mexico’s top national security threat and a major national security threat to the United States: international drug trafficking.
Rigorous political analysis of the drug...
Sister Spit
Writing, Rants and Reminiscence from the Road
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
• Michelle Tea's previous novel "Valencia" is currently being made into a movie by 21 directors, each directing a chapter with their own cast.
• Her book "Rose of No Man's Land" is also being adapted into a feature film.
• Contributor Blake Nelson's novel "Girl"...
by Howard Zinn
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Howard Zinn, like Noam Chomsky, enjoys a best–seller size market of readers who are always eager for new books by him. Designed as a “recession buster” in size and price point, The Bomb offers Zinn fans and general readers two short, classic texts that examine the political, historical, and...
by Charles Bukowski
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Everyone’s favorite Dirty Old Man returns with a new volume of uncollected work. Charles Bukowski (1920–1994), one of the most outrageous figures of twentieth-century American literature, was so prolific that many significant pieces never found their way into his books. Absence of the Hero contains...
White Hand Society
The Psychedelic Partnership of Timothy Leary & Allen Ginsberg
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
While individual biographies of Ginsberg and Leary have been published, their explicit ties have never been explored (outside of FBI files). The combination of these two figures brings together a multitude of major figures from politics, the arts, and the intersection of intellectual life and outlaw...
by Michael Parenti
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
In a lively challenge to mainstream history, Michael Parenti does battle with a number of mass-marketed historical myths. He shows how history's victors distort and suppress the documentary record in order to perpetuate their power and privilege. And he demonstrates how historians are influenced by...
Under the Affluence
Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of America
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
"Tim Wise is one of the great public moralists in America today. In his bracing new book, Under the Affluence, he brilliantly engages the roots and ramifications of radical inequality in our nation, carefully detailing the heartless war against the poor and the swooning addiction to the rich that...
Disposable Futures
The Seduction of Violence in the Age of Spectacle
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Brad Evans is an emerging voice in radical theory circles who will resonate with the market of public intellectuals like Slavoj Zizek—established intellectuals who command large trade readerships through popular culture.
Accessible and serious, fans of the classic Guy Debord book "Society...
Arguing for Our Lives
A User's Guide to Constructive Dialog
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
We live in a time when public discourse is more skewed than ever by the propaganda that big money can buy, with trust in the leadership of elected officials at an all-time low. The "news" has degenerated into sensationalist sound bites, and the idea of debate has become a polarized shouting...
National Insecurity
The Cost of American Militarism
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
"Mel Goodman has spent the last few decades telling us what's gone wrong with American intelligence and the American military, and now, in National Insecurity, he tells us what we must do to change the way the system works, and how to fix it. Goodman is not only telling us how to save wasted...