Idaho Fell
BY JEN HIRT
When I moved to Idaho Falls in August 2005, I couldn't take my new home seriously. It was a 75-unit apartment complex with a name meant to evoke grandeur and respite: Shadow Canyon. Two-story buildings ringed a parking lot and a grassy area, and tall Ponderosa pines provided the aesthetics that vinyl siding couldn't. It was within walking distance to the mall, one of two Wal-Marts, and a buffet called Chuck-a-Rama. More importantly, it was within walking distance to a technical college. There, my partner in good times and ...
Bone China
BY NEALE JONES
Everyone neglected to tell me that I had a house where my heart ought to be. Maybe they were unaware. Perhaps, on the ultrasound screen, it appeared as a tiny womb within my chest, an open throbbing gash, a wound. It will heal shut, just as any injury, the doctor must have assured my parents. Though it may leave a scar.
Only later did it coalesce into a house. The edges hardening into roofline, window panes, joists, scabs of shingles, little bone studs for framing, a structure pushing back against the press of lungs and muscles, holding open ...
The Grand Inquisitor Comes to Tennessee
BY JIM BUTLER
Even while he was attacking his friend Walter Bob Feston, practically accusing him of being possessed by the Devil, Jackie Barron knew that he was out of control, sounding like a revival preacher he once heard, calling down hellfire and damnation. It was not like him.
Jackie went to church, of course. Going to church and loving Jesus was taken for granted in Cherokee, Tennessee; it was like eating supper, or loving your mother. Being a good person just naturally meant going to Sunday School in the church basement at nine o'clock on Sunday morning, then going upstairs for the sermon at ten o'clock, and—this ...
Nairobi | August 3, 2008
Nairobi's coolest prose reading series is gonna get hot this Sunday with the sizzling literary talents of four Kenyan and Ugandan writers, including contributors to the anthology: Missionaries, Mercenaries, and Misfits.
David Kaiza is a Ugandan writer based in Kampala. After working as a journalist for several years with the Daily Monitor, he took a two year hiatus from writing and became a metal worker. This story marks his return to the pen.
Trained as a journalist, Stanley Gazemba lives in Kangemi, Nairobi and writes for Sunday Nation and Msanii Magazine. He is the author of The Stone Hills of ...
Nairobi | June 15, 2008
A literary evening with a government worker, a professor, a freelance writer, and a former drug trafficker? Indeed, it's happening at the next Salon Nairobi!
Judy Akinyi aka Saga McOdongo was a teacher at the Kenya Polytechnic until 2001 when she was introduced to drug trafficking by one of the most feared operators in the murky business at the time. She was jailed for 11 years for trafficking in drugs but the sentence was commuted on appeal. She was recently released from prison.
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Samuel Munene is a young Nairobi poet, short story writer, and contributor to Kwani? as well ...
NYC | June 8, 2008
Yowza! June blue skies and warmer weather have finally arrived! Sunday Salon turns SIX this month and we're delighted to celebrate with a stellar crew of writers.
Felicia C. Sullivan is the author of The Sky Isn't Visible from Here: Scenes from a Life, which has been featured in Vanity Fair, Elle, USA Today, Newsday, and The Washington Post. She received her MFA from Columbia University's writing program and has been awarded fellowships from Tin House magazine and SLS Literary Seminars. A two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, her work has been published in anthologies and journals. ...
Chicago | May 25, 2008
In Celebration of Pilcrow Lit Festival, Sunday Salon Chicago Presents: Local Literary Magazines: A Fiction Editors' Reading!
Join us this Memorial Day Weekend on the last day of the festival, SUNDAY, MAY 25th @ The Charleston Bar (2076 N. Hoyne) 7:30pm
Come check out these local literary magazines, pick up an issue, and hear the editors read their own work.
FEATURING:
Chicago Review: Robert P. Baird is the editor of Chicago Review and a doctoral candidate at the University of Chicago. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Slate, Bookforum, and Chicago Magazine.
Make Magazine: Mike Zapata is a writer and educator living in Chicago. He is co-founder, co-publisher, and fiction editor for MAKE: ...
The Thing About Luzhin
BY MICHAEL MORECI
An Excerpt from Baron's Chronicle
Here's the thing about Luzhin: from the night we met, I knew he was not an honest person. It's an opinion never changed, even as we became what some would call friends. There was something about him that inspired me; here was a person who came to America in the early ‘90s when he was twenty, abandoning Russia in spite of its imminent overhaul. And by the way he tells his story, you can tell Luzhin wasn't discouraged by the abrupt, life-altering move. After all, living in Russia, as Luzhin explained it to me, ...
Chicago | April 27, 2008
You won't want to miss the literary talent in Chi-town this Sunday! The powerhouse lineup includes a renowned Iraqi novelist, a veteran crime writer, and the co-founder of the Quickies! reading series.
Mahmoud Saeed is a prominent and award-winning Iraqi novelist. He has written more than 20 novels and short story collections, including Port Said and Other Stories, which was published in 1957. The first military-Baathist Iraqi government seized two of his novels in 1963. Saeed was imprisoned several times and he left Iraq in 1985 after the authorities banned the publication of some of his novels, including Zanka bin ...
Nairobi | April 20, 2008
Nairobi glows incandescent with four more writers at this month's reading. The luminary literary lineup includes: an architect turned journalist, a travel writer from Canada, a prize-winning fiction writer, and a singer/poet.
Millicent Muthoni is a trained architect turned journalist in real estate and a columnist with the Standard. Her short story was published in the Caine Prize anthology, Jambula Tree and other Stories, 2007.
Arno Kopecky is a freelance journalist and travel writer from Vancouver, Canada. He is based in Nairobi and is an editor at Kwani
Kingwa Kamencu is a journalist writing for the Media Institute's magazine- Expression Today (ET) and a contributor with 'The Standard' newspaper. Her first ...
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