City Lights Publishers: 100 books

"Nochita shimmers with humor and delight, she burns with stark raving intelligence."-Mary Gaitskill"In Nochita, Dia Felix builds an extraordinarily rich and inventive language to carry the kaleidoscopic point of view of her young protagonist. What a pleasure to open a book and find such exuberant and...

This is the only historical guidebook specifically devoted to SF Chinatown. Will be of interest to the large Chinese American population in SF and to those interested in Chinatowns throughout the US. Bay Area historians and those interested in the history of SF's architecture.

Immigration and borders continues to be a major issue in the national and international news cycle and Todd Miller's print history ranging from his feature in the New York Times Magazine to Border Patrol Nation position him to address this. As people are displaced from the coast, they being to "challenge"...

Following the civil rights movement, race relations in the United States entered a new era. Legal gains were interpreted by some as ensuring equal treatment for all and that "colorblind" policies and programs would be the best way forward. Since then, many voices have called for an end to...

Noam Chomsky's current book, Failed States, has been well-reviewed in places like the NY Times. Our book will be of interest to those who may have just gotten turned on to Chomsky because of this coverage, or those who are already readers of his work. Clear concise short pieces addressing conflicts in some of the most troubled and, therefore "newsworthy" regions of the world.

Parenti has a strong following, and his writing is clear and accessible. He's a great primer for anyone interested in American foreign policy and intervention.

Debut novel from someone firmly entrenched in the LA arts scene. Jepsen has acted in the Emmy-Award winning show Transparent and a web series with Beth Lisick on (Transparent creator) Jill Soloway's site, wifey.tv. She's also appeared in music videos for Peaches and the band Two Gallants. Jepsen's...

Author Thomas Glave is known for his stylistic brio and courageous explorations into the heavily mined territories of race and sexuality. This searing collection of stories is a stunning debut of a writer the Village Voice has named "One to Watch." “Thomas Glave walks the path of...

One of the best short story writers in America. One of America's most widely anthologized short fiction writers has first new collection in almost two decades (since 1999). Braverman is a "writer's writer" revered by Joan Didion, Rick Moody, Janet Fitch, Dave Eggers, and others. 2...

Previously uncollected, unknown and some unpublished essays, short stories, interviews, and introductors to other writers. All dealing with the subject of writing and literature from Bukowski's point of view and selected from throughout his career. This book uniquely introduces the theme of writing...

"Domestic Tension," the performance piece Bilal discusses here, received extensive international and national media attention in at least 138 countries. High profile coverage included CNN, The Washington Post, Newsweek, NPR, the Chicago Tribune and elsewhere. As a result, there should be...

A woman's struggle for self-realization in contemporary Iran, a novel with "the clarity and spare sensuousness of Persian poetry or miniature painting."-Ruth Prawer Jhabvala When Minou Hakini marries a man of her own choosing-an intellectual and a radical-and moves to Abadan, a thriving...

Gibler's is the first and only book available in English that is based on extensive interviews with survivors of the September 2014 killings and abductions of students in Iguala, Mexico. It is a peerless expose of the crimes and the official cover up. The only other book available in English on the...

There are a number of anthologies on violence, but none exist as presented in this conversational interview format, which provides a meaningful and sophisticated introduction into the most cutting-edge thinking on the problem of violence in the contemporary world. The market for this book includes...