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LIVE! From City Lights

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The official podcast for City Lights Publishers & Booksellers in San Francisco. Featuring readings and archives. Hosted by City Lights events coordinator Peter Maravelis.

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City Lights and Duke University Press celebrate the publication of Curating Deviance: Programming the Queer Film Canon by Marc Francis, published by Duke University Press. You can purchase copies of Curating Deviance: Programming the Queer Film Canon... more

Rae Alexandra and Adrienne Simms celebrate their new book Unsung Heroines: 35 Women Who Changed the Bay Area, published by City Lights. You can purchase copies of Unsung Heroines: 35 Women Who Changed the Bay Area here: citylights.com/unsung-... more

Jasmin ‘Iolani Hakes reads from her new novel The Pōhaku, published by HarperVia. You can purchase copies of The Pōhaku here: citylights.com/pohaku/ Originally held onsite at City Lights and broadcast via Zoom on Thursday, February 12, 2026. ... more

City Lights and Duke University Press celebrate the publication of My Father, the Messiah: A Memoir – by Gil Z. Hochberg, published by Duke University Press. You can purchase copies of My Father, the Messiah: A Memoir here: citylights.com/my-... more

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Marc Francis
Author, Curating Deviance, Programming the Queer Film Canon
Yale University; formerly HBO, Warner Brothers, Paramount
Episode: Marc Francis in conversation with Jesse Ataide
Jesse Ataide
Creator of Queer Modernism's website and respondent
Queer Modernism
Episode: Marc Francis in conversation with Jesse Ataide
Rae Alexandra
award-winning arts and culture writer
KQED Arts & Culture
Episode: Unsung Heroines: 35 Women Who Changed the Bay Area
Adrienne Simms
fine artist, illustrator
City Lights (illustrator of Unsung Heroines)
Episode: Unsung Heroines: 35 Women Who Changed the Bay Area
Elaine Katzenberger
publisher of City Lights Books and director of City Lights
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers
Episode: Unsung Heroines: 35 Women Who Changed the Bay Area
Jasmin Iolani Hakes
Award-winning author of Hula; author of Pōhaku
Harper Via (publisher)
Episode: Jasmin ‘Iolani Hakes in conversation with Susan Kiyo Ito
Susan Kiyo Ito
Author of I Would Meet You Anywhere; literary critic and editor
Independent/Various publications
Episode: Jasmin ‘Iolani Hakes in conversation with Susan Kiyo Ito
Gil Z. Hochberg
Bransford Professor of Hebrew and Visual Studies, Comparative Literature, and Middle East Studies at Columbia University
Columbia University
Episode: Gil Z. Hochberg in conversation with Alysia Abbott
Alysia Abbott
Author of Fairyland, A Memoir of My Father
Author/Advocate
Episode: Gil Z. Hochberg in conversation with Alysia Abbott

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Peter Maravelis
Host of LIVE! From City Lights, events coordinator, and Events Director at City Lights Publishers & Booksellers.

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#112
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#134
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Unsung Heroines: 35 Women Who Changed the Bay Area
Q: What was your biggest inspiration for the book, minus the lack of street names and obscurities for and lack of women recognition to write this book?
The project was largely driven by rage at underrepresentation, which fueled extensive research; once momentum built, the team refined the list to 35, ensuring the selections would resonate across Bay Area communities and generations.
Marc Francis in conversation with Jesse Ataide
Q: Could you expand on comments about Russ Meyer's Sexploitation films and the stigmatization of John Waters' films?
Russ Meyer's work was canonized for its formal qualities despite lowbrow status, illustrating how museums could reframe 'trash' as having artistic value; Waters' films faced stigma that was often tied to their explicit content, but they also provided spaces to reclaim derided sexuality through camp and transgressive humor.
Marc Francis in conversation with Jesse Ataide
Q: What is at stake politically today in framing this kind of programming as deviant rather than queer? Is it trans-inclusive?
The framework of deviance can push against censoring, right-wing politics while also posing questions about coalition-building across diverse gender and sexuality experiences; it remains relevant for expanding inclusion beyond strict LGBT identity while acknowledging frictions between communities.
Gil Z. Hochberg in conversation with Alysia Abbott
Q: What did closure mean in the context of this project, and did you experience it?
She explains that closure was never a completion but a surrender to memory, allowing memories to dictate the book's order and accepting involuntary memories as part of the process.
Gil Z. Hochberg in conversation with Alysia Abbott
Q: How did you approach organizing the archive, and how did that shape the narrative of the book?
Hochberg describes color-coding sections (red for love poetry, white for stories, green for 'madman writing') and emphasizes the corporeal, tactile work of preservation that enabled her to write with him and about him.

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2. Jesse Ataide
3. Rae Alexandra
4. Adrienne Simms
5. Elaine Katzenberger
6. Jasmin Iolani Hakes
7. Susan Kiyo Ito
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