NYC | September 19, 2010
Ah summer! We’re holding onto you for as long as possible, but what’s that on the literary horizon…? You guessed it: four phenomenal writers who will keep that summer spirit going at the September 19th Sunday Salon. We’re looking forward to it! Join us at Jimmys 43 at 43 E. 7th St. 8pm. (Please note time change for this month’s event.)
Phillip Lopate was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1943 
and received a BA from Columbia in 1964, and a doctorate from the Union Graduate School in 1979. He has written fifteen books of poems, essays, novels, film criticism, …
NYC | June 13: Salon celebrates 8!
Raise your glasses and mugs! This June, SUNDAY SALON CELEBRATES 8 GREAT YEARS of literary readings in NYC and much gratitude goes out to all Salon supporters and writers & readers over the years. You are a vital part of this series: in person, online, in spirit!
To kickoff the series’ eighth year of existence, we’re welcoming four fantastic writers (three featured in Salonzine’s “Believe” issue) and, oh yes, more super musical talent! 7pm at Jimmys 43. Come. Join. Celebrate.
Meakin Armstrong is a freelance writer, an adjunct professor of English, a former employee at The New Yorker, and the fiction …
Alyson Greenfield
MUSICAL GUEST
Alyson Greenfield is a Brooklyn based singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who experiments with pianos, guitars, glockenspiels, chord organs, synthesizers, and vintage Casio beats. Alyson’s music has been recognized by Paste, Relix, Beyond Race, The Deli, CTN-Music, and more, and her music has been heard on Fox Television, Rubyfruit Radio (SPIN Magazine’s Essential Mix), and at festivals such as the CMJ Music Marathon, Estrojam, Ladyfest, and EarthFusion. She recently released her first full-length album, “Tuscaloosa,” engineered by Denise Barbarita (David Byrne, Mary J. Blige), and featuring Jason Mercer (Ani DiFranco) on bass. As well as performing on her own, Alyson also performs with the electronic band Future Rock (Matisyhau, The Disco …
NYC | May 16, 2010
April volcanic showers bring hearty May flowers and, my, what interesting flowers they are! Join us in welcoming to the Salon stage a finely-cultivated group of writers and poets and another super musical guest. Definitely not your garden variety. At Jimmys 43, 43 E. 7th St. (btw 2nd & 3rd Aves).
Major Jackson is the author of two collections of poetry: Hoops (Norton: 2006) and Leaving Saturn (University of Georgia: 2002), winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. Hoops was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award in the category …
NYC | April 18, 2010: Literary Love & Logic
How’s your math? Find X:
3 writers + 1 poet + 1 band + X = 6 reasons to celebrate at the April 18th Sunday Salon!
(That’s right: X = You.)
7pm at Jimmys 43, 43 E. 7th St. in Manhattan. See you there!
Manijeh Nasrabadi is co-director of the Association of Iranian American Writers. She received her BA in literature from Brown University and her MFA in creative nonfiction from Hunter College, where she also taught creative writing workshops for several years. She was a 2008 recipient of a Hedgebrook writing residency and 2005 Hertog Fellow. Currently, she’s a doctoral student in American Studies at New York University. Her essays …
NYC | March 21, 2010
We’re celebrating the arrival of spring and a special reading with writers from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference at the next Sunday Salon. Join us at Jimmys 43 at 7pm!
Writers from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference bring a long-held conference tradition, Readings From The Dark Tower, to NYC. Five writers of color who reflect the complex diversity of America read from their work and answer questions about what it means to be “the first” (in a family, a country, an ethnic group), to achieve literary success.
Ru Freeman’s creative and political writing has appeared internationally. Her debut novel, A …
NYC | February 21, 2010
We’re cutting the February chill with four literary luminaries, a fabulous musical guest, and heaps of hope for Haiti. Please consider donating to the Haitian Health Foundation and join us in the warm and welcoming subterranean Jimmys 43 (7th St. b/w 2nd & 3rd Aves) at 7pm!
Hettie Jones is a poet and prose writer, author of How I Became Hettie Jones, a memoir of the “beat scene” of the fifties and sixties, currently available in a paperback edition from Grove Press. Jones’s short prose has been published in journals such as Fence, Global City Review and Ploughshares, …
NYC | January 24, 2010-2
NYC | January 24, 7pm
Join us at Jimmy’s 43 at 43 East 7th St. b/w 2nd & 3rd Aves.
Sunday Salon will stand with Haiti on Sunday, January 24 by collecting monetary donations for Stand With Haiti – Partners in Health, a solid, on-the-ground organization already in high gear helping the rescue and recovery effort. And while the best thing you can give right now is money, if you want to donate goods, we encourage you to consider assembling a hygiene or baby kit for Church World Service. Here’s how. Or if you have skills needed & want to volunteer, you can register with the Center …
NYC | December 13, 2009
“I hope that no copies of Delhi Noir ever fall into the hands of the city’s police. If they do, many of the 14 authors of these nerve-shredding tales of life – and death – on the wrong side of the tracks in India’s capital may face a sweaty hour or two the next time they need to renew a permit or report a crime.”
–Boyd Tonkin of The Independent, UK (Read the entire review here.)
Dangerous, yes. How else to describe the writers of Delhi Noir, the compelling new anthology from Akashic Press? Bold. Very bold. Join us in welcoming these …
NYC | November 15, 2009
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Sunday Salon will be collecting donations for the people of Caba, a small fishing town in La Union Province that has been affected by the second major typhoon to hit the Philippines last month. We will be sending, in true Filipino style, a ‘balikbayan box’ (an extra-large cardboard box filled to capacity containing various comfort items then shipped directly to the Philippines by a specialized freight service for a flat fee). FOR A LIST OF MOST NEEDED ITEMS, click here.
CASH DONATIONS will be collected as well, on behalf of the relief efforts of Cafe By The Ruins in Baguio City, Philippines. Everyone donating $10 or more …
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