Feast your eyes on stellar prose, poetry, and interviews in the latest SalonZine.

In This Issue

EDITORIAL

Audacity: The New Scarlet Letter by Caroline Berger

FICTION

The Hopeful Story People Want to Hear by Catherine Curan

Jen the First by Benjamin Matvey

NON-FICTION

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

POETRY

Moonstreet by Stephanie Sherman (in English and Spanish)

Disciple by Ching-In Chen

Default by Caroline Berger

MUSIC REVIEWS

Neptune’s Daughter, Luminescent Orchestrii by Dominic Masi

INTERVIEWS

Bino A. Realuyo by Nita Noveno

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NYC | June 21, 2009: Celebrating 7 years!!!

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 ...

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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.

Sunday Salon back in Manhattan

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 ...

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Daraja Academy in Kenya

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 ...

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Nairobi | March 8, 2009

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 ...

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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!

Bino A. Realuyo

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 ...

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So many good books to read these days. Where to start? Check out our latest reviews, books by alumni and tempting recommendations.

Ask the Dust

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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