JESUS ANGEL GARCIA is the author of badbadbad, a transmedia novel about sex, God, rock ‘n’ roll and the social web: What’s the line between self-destruction and redemption? Is there such a thing as sexual morality? What does intimacy look like in a culture dominated by e-communication? Stories adapted from the project — which combines a traditional print book with a soundtrack of original songs derived from the narrative and a series of short documentary films based on the novel’s themes — have been published or podcasted in 3:AM Magazine, Monkeybicycle, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Orange Alert and other venues. Info, excerpts, song samples and film clips may be found at http://badbadbad.net.

ALYSON LYON is the co-producer/co-host of Essay Fiesta (every third Monday at the Book Cellar) and a founding member of The Chicago Story Collective. Alyson also has a background in acting. A Chicago native and graduate of DePaul’s Theatre School, Alyson’s performance highlights include: 12 Ophelias at Trap Door; The Vagina Monologues at the Apollo Theatre; Pajama Girl, her one-woman show, at the Chopin Theatre, a guest appearance on HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm and a cameo in Jeff Garlin’s I Want Soeone to Eat Cheese With. She reads her personal essays all over town and currently works as a makeup artist.

ROBERT RODI has written fiction, nonfiction, criticism, plays and comic books. His newest effort, Seven Seasons In Siena: My Quixotic Quest for Acceptance Among Tuscany’s Proudest People, was released in June by Ballantine Books. He has also jsut released a new novel — a Hitchcock-for-the YouTube-age thriller entitled The Sugarman Bootlegs — exclusively as an e-book. He has published seven other novels, including Fag Hag and When You Were Me, and the nonfiction book Dogged Pursuit: My Year of Competing Dusty, the World’s Least Likely Agility Dog. His short fiction can be found in a number of anthologies, including Men On Men 5, His and Sandman: Book of Dreams. His literary criticism has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, New City and The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review. He blogs about the Chicago performing arts scene for The Huffington Post and writes a “guerilla lit-crit” blog on Jane Austen, Bitch In a Bonnet. He was a founding member of the Chicago-based performance art troupe, The Pansy Kings, who were active throughout the 1990s, and he wrote sketches for the Live Bait Theater. Recently he became an auxiliary member of the monologuist ensemble BoyGirlBoyGirl. He is also the front man for the fusion rock band 7th Kind.

FEATURED ORGANIZATION: THE NEIGHBORHOOD WRITING ALLIANCE, publishers of the Journal of Ordinary Thought, provokes dialogue, builds community, and promotes change by creating opportunities for adults in Chicago’s underserved neighborhoods to write, publish, and perform works about their lives. The Journal of Ordinary Thought publishes reflections people make on their personal histories and everyday experiences. It is founded on the proposition that Every Person Is a Philosopher.

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 will receive a limited print edition of our latest SalonZine issue, “Believe.” Donations of $25 or more will result in your ownership of not only “Believe” but the even-more-limited print edition of our Winter 2009 issue, “Audacity.” Pretty cool, yes?

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Sunday Salon is pleased to welcome to the stage FOUR amazing writers and TWO equally amazing musicians! As always, Seventh Street Small Stage@ Jimmy’s 43 at 43 E. 7th St. (btw 2/3rd Ave), 7pm. Join us!

Matthew Vollmer‘s work has appeared in a number of literary magazines, including Paris Review, VQR, Tin House, Epoch, Oxford American, and Colorado Review. He has twice been short-listed for the Best American Short Stories series. His first collection, Future Missionaries of America, was published this year. He teaches at Virginia Tech and lives in Blacksburg, Virginia, with his wife and son. He is at work on a novel about the shamanic journeys of a young mother whose boyfriend returns to their small mountain community, following a tour of duty in the Middle East. 

Robert Lopez is the author of two novels, Part of the World and Kamby Bolongo Mean River, just out from Dzanc Books. His fiction has appeared in dozens of publications and he teaches at The New School, Pratt Institute and Columbia University.

Joseph Salvatore teaches writing and literature at The New School in New York City. His work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in, among other places, The Brooklyn Rail, Dossier Journal, LIT, Open City, Pleiades Arts North, Post Road, New York Tyrant, Salt Hill, Sleeping Fish, Willow Springs, and The New York Times Book Review. He lives in Queens.

Janice Brabaw is the critically acclaimed author of Universe, Disturbed, her first collection of poetry that draws directly from her teenage and college journals when she suffered from debilitating depression. She is also the author of And Again: A Memoir of a Life Disordered which chronicles her struggles with borderline personality disorder. Janice is the editor of The Best of Stain anthologies and was the host of the Stained Glass Confessional and An Echo, A Stain reading series. Janice has performed at The Bowery Poetry Club, Otto’s Shrunken Head, The Inspired Word, Soule Series, and the Library Lounge series at Telephone Bar. Her work has appeared in Poesis, smoke, Violent Femininity – A Journal of Female Poets, The Toronto Quarterly, Ophelia Street, The Record, and The Cartier Street Review. Janice’s second collection of poetry, Tongue For Folie, will be released November 20, 2009. 

Michael Indeglio is a singer, songwriter, actor, musician and all around artistic guy living in NYC. We just can’t get enough of Mike and his guitar, so we keep inviting him back to the Salon stage. In addition to his solo performances, Mike also plays with various singers and songwriters in Philadelphia, New York, and Florida. He is a graduate of The American Musical and Dramatic Academy. He’s toured the country with the National Tours of TITANIC and MAME, and was a member of the Canadian Tour of FOREVER PLAID. This month at the Salon, Mike is joined by Tina Mathieu, who has been circulating her unique blend of folk and soul music around New York for the past few years; with her extremely melodic and heartfelt songs, she captivates her audience with every note she sings. And not that we’re spreading rumors, but November 15 just might also be two days after one of our musical guest’s birthday. Which one? Best to buy them both a drink, cover your bases, yes?