Feast your eyes on stellar prose, poetry, and interviews in the latest SalonZine.
Audacity: The New Scarlet Letter by Caroline Berger
The Hopeful Story People Want to Hear by Catherine Curan
Jen the First by Benjamin Matvey
A Report from Kenya: Parsing a Native Son by Charles A. Matathia
Memento Mori by Barbara Sueko McGuire
A Cub in Winter by Luis H. Francia
A Day at the Dentist by Erica Silberman
100% Armenian Blood: A Theoretical Performance by Nancy Agabian
Moonstreet by Stephanie Sherman (in English and Spanish)
Disciple by Ching-In Chen
Default by Caroline Berger
Neptune’s Daughter, Luminescent Orchestrii by Dominic Masi
Bino A. Realuyo by Nita Noveno
We started in the Big Apple and traveled to Nairobi, Kenya and Chicago. Drop by the Salon nearest you and meet other writers.
Get ready to celebrate: Sunday Salon is turning 7 this month! That's right, the big 7!
First, we bid a sad farewell to our home of the last few years, Stain Bar in Brooklyn that closed its doors recently due to an increase in rent. We're determined to keep the Stain spirit of arts and creativity alive. Thank you Krista, Caroline and Craig. Big love to you all!
Please join us at our new home in Manhattan: Seventh Street Small Stage at Jimmys 43 on 7th St. between 2nd/3rd Ave.
Celebrating with us in delightful prose:
Michael Hawley's short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Boston Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Saint Ann’s Review and Cimarron Review (currently on bookshelves). He recently ...
It's a big literary world, and Sunday Salon is smack dab in the middle of it. Check out the Salon blog for the latest news and views.
Our economy has brought unexpected change and sadly, forced the people of Stain Bar to close its doors. We will miss this special community of artists, musicians, and friends in Brooklyn. Our time at Stain Bar was rich and will ...
Daraja Academy is the first free all-girls secondary school in all of East Africa. In late Feburary 2009, 26 girls from Kenya were given a chance for a secondary education which would otherwise not be possible, given their current ...
This month’s Sunday Salon will feature poetry and prose readings from Kenya's premier literary magazine Kwani? 05. (Part 1 is already in bookstores!) The featured writers ...

Meet folks who have read at Salon, including all the juicy tidbits they shared with us. Oh, and feel free to order their books too!
INTERVIEWED BY NITA NOVENO
Recently, I interviewed poet and novelist, Bino A. Realuyo, whom I met at a Sunday Salon reading in 2007. He read from his poetry collection, The Gods We Worship Live Next Door, a beautiful, haunting account of his troubled Philippines. In one particular poem, written in the perspective of his father, a war survivor, I was introduced to the vision and talent of a writer who gives voice to the voiceless, shedding light on forgotten histories. In this era of self-help literature and the ever-beleaguered memoir, here is a truly audacious writer of hope and change.
Nita Noveno: What is your earliest memory of growing ...
So many good books to read these days. Where to start? Check out our latest reviews, books by alumni and tempting recommendations.
By René Georg Vasicek
Ask the Dust is a dangerous book. Arturo Bandini, the narrator, is a terrorist of the mind. He explodes reality and makes you believe in the urgency of now: "Los Angeles, give me some of you! Los Angeles come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your streets, you pretty town I loved you so much, you sad flower in the sand, you pretty town."
I didn't think literature was possible in Los Angeles, and then I read Ask the Dust (1939) by John Fante. At the time I thought I was finished with American novels, too busy devouring the Europeans: Knut Hamsun, Robert Musil, Bohumil Hrabal, Thomas Bernhard, W.G. Sebald. Then one day I was killing time ...
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