NYC | February 19, 2012: Literary & Musical Sizzle!
We’re welcoming that pleasingly potent combination of literary and musical talent at the upcoming Salon. So escape the wintry winds and long work week for an inspiring new year event. Join us! 7pm.
Suzzy Roche is a singer/songwriter/performer/ and founding member of
the singing group The Roches. She has recorded over fifteen albums, written music for TV and Film, and toured extensively for thirty years all across the U.S. and Europe. Zero Church: an unusual collection of prayers (a collaboration with Maggie Roche) which was developed at Harvard’s Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue was originally staged at …
January 15, 2012: Writers & Books for the New Year!
Sunday Salon is celebrating the new year with new books! Join us in welcoming four writers who’ll transport you to wondrous, urgent places. At Jimmys 43.
Called “disturbing, edgy and provocative” by Book Magazine, 
Terese Svoboda’s work is often the surreal poetry of a nightmare yet is written with such wit, verve and passion that she can address the direst subject. “She will, of course, compared to Willa Cather — and deservedly so,” wrote Kurt Andersen of her most recent novel, Bohemian Girl. A “fabulous fabulist” according to Publisher’s Weekly, Vogue lauded her first novel, Cannibal, as a female Heart of …
Chicago | January 29, 2012
We open 2012 with great readers and a new venue. Join us as we welcome 2011 Nelson Algren Prize winner Billy Lombardo (The Man with Two Arms); Chicago journalist, fiction writer and poet Marco Buscaglia and DePaul and Northwestern professor Christine Sneed (Portraits of a Few of the People I’ve Made Cry). We’ll pass the hat for our featured organization: Polyphony H.S., an international student-run literary magazine for high school writers co-founded by Billy, and feature Haiyun Cho and Rachel Stone, two contributors to the magazine. Join us at 7 p.m., January 29, Black Rock, 3614 N. Damen.
NYC | December 18, 2011: Occupy Literature
Escape. Madness. Protest. Redemption. They’re all making a special appearance at the final Sunday Salon of 2011. Just in time for the holidays! Join us, won’t you? At Jimmys 43.
David Unger was born in Guatemala City in 1950 and
now lives in Brooklyn, New York. He is the author of The Price of Escape (Akashic Books, 2011), Para mi, eres divina (Random House Mondadori, Mexico, 2011), Ni chicha, ni limonada (F & G Editores, Guatemala, 2009; Recorded Books, 2010), and Life in the Damn Tropics (Wisconsin University Press; Plaza y Janes, Mexico, 2004; Locus Press, Taiwan, 2007). He has …
Chicago | Nov. 28, 2011
We’re back to Monday this month, for an evening with writers and instructors from StoryStudio Chicago. Join us as we hear from M. Molly Backes, Jennifer Ann Coffeen, Kate Harding and Scott Onak. 6:30 p.m. at Katerina’s, 1920 W. Irving Park Rd.
NYC | November 20, 2011: Men Undressed + Green Girl + Music
Join us for a special evening of readings by four super women writers, three will be reading from the 
new anthology Men Undressed: Women Writers on the Male Sexual Experience and one from her new novel, Green Girl, about that important and frightening and exhilarating period of being adrift and screwing up, a time when drunken hook-ups and infatuations, nervous breakdowns, and ecstatic epiphanies are the order of the day. With musical guests Michael Indeglio and Tina Mathieu, the evening’s gonna sizzle!
Christine Lee Zilka is the Editor-at-Large at Kartika Review. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in journals …
Chicago | Oct. 30, 2011
We’re back on Sunday, this month at least. Join us and The Nervous Breakdown for another Nervous Breakdown Literary Experience, this time featuring Joshua Mohr, Susan Solomon, Richard Thomas and Kate Zambreno. Our featured organization for the evening is The Read/Write Library, formerly Chicago Underground Library. 8 p.m. at Katerina’s, 1920 W. Irving Park Rd.
NYC | October 16, 2011: An Evening of Short Fiction
Join us for a special night of short fiction by some of today’s most talented writers! 7pm at Jimmys 43. We’ll also raise a glass to the arrival of autumn. Ah.
Kathy Fish’s stories have been published in Guernica, Indiana 
Review, The Denver Quarterly, Quick Fiction, and elsewhere. She guest edited Dzanc Books’ Best of the Web 2010 and has published three collections of short fiction: TOGETHER WE CAN BURY IT (Cow Heavy Books, forthcoming 2011), WILD LIFE (Matter Press, 2011), and a chapbook in A PECULIAR FEELING OF RESTLESSNESS: FOUR CHAPBOOKS OF SHORT SHORT FICTION BY FOUR WOMEN (Rose …
Chicago | September 26, 2011: Brigid Pasulka and Contributors to THE2NDHAND
Yes, we know that’s a Monday. But we’re in the Midwest, where the Big Ten has 12 teams and the Big 12 has 10. Anyway, join us as we feature writers from All Hands on: THE2NDHAND After 10, with Heather Palmer, Lauren Pretnar and Mike Zapata. And to celebrate back-to-school month, we’ll also hear from Whitney Young teacher and novelist Brigid Pasulka. Katerina’s, 1920 W. Irving Park Rd., 7:30 p.m.
NYC | September 11, 2011: Dax-Devlon Ross, Elizabeth Eslami, Joseph Salvatore, & Courtney Maum
Sunday Salon is back for another fantastic reading season with new and beloved writers at Jimmys 43 (43 E. 7th St). Join us for the first celebration! 7pm.
Elizabeth Eslami is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence
College and the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. Her debut novel, Bone Worship (Pegasus, 2010), about the complex relationship between an Iranian father and his daughter, has been called “a treasure” by author David Haynes, and Janet Peery has called Eslami “a writer of uncommon wit and depth.” Her essays, short stories, and travel writing have appeared in numerous publications, including The Millions, …
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