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We’re excited to host Cristina García at City Lights Bookstore on Wednesday, November 1st, reading from her new novel, Here in Berlin (published by Counterpoint Press)! She answered our 5 questions.

City Lights: If you’ve been to City Lights before, what’s your memory of the visit?  If you haven’t been here before, what are you expecting?

Cristina García: I've been to City Lights many times. It's my favorite bookstore in San Francisco. I especially love your upstairs Poetry Room and can lose myself there for hours.

CL: What’s the first book you read and what are you reading right now?

CG: I remember the first book that made a big impact on me was A Wrinkle in Time. I read it when I was in 3rd grade and was utterly transported by it.

CL: Which 3 books would you never part with?

CG: The Palm at the End of the Mind by Wallace Stevens; Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas; Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson. But, actually, there are dozens more!

CL: If your book had a soundtrack, what would it be?

CG: Bruckner's Symphony No. 7.

CL: If you opened a bookstore tomorrow, where would it be located, what would it be called, and what would your bestseller be?

CG: I'd call it Las Dos Brujas Bookstore and my bestsellers would be Latinx fiction of all kinds. (It's so hard for me to choose just one of anything!)

Uncanny Valley (2011)

Lawrence Weschler

Muffin says “will you please read to me?”

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Here is a stack of recentlyish acquired books. Some were purchased and some were gifted by friends or publishers! Thank you to the tagged publishers for the ARCs.

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The weather here in MD is cloudy with a chance of ice, meaning we will be staying inside. Perfect weather for reading, baking, movie watching, and Taylor Swift dance parties. Listening to Fearless on repeat in anticipation of the release of Taylor’s version with 6 new songs!

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Inhabitation, by Teru Miyamoto Translated by Roger K. Thomas Counterpoint Press 7/9/2019 春の夢 first published in 1984 320 pages Japanese Literature Goodreads

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World literature is getting more and more one of my favorite genres, especially coming from Japan. I enjoy participating every year in the Japanese Literature Challenge, and I managed to read 8 books in  the 13th edition of the…