NYC | June 12, 2011: The Salon celebrates 9 years!
Break out the champagne! This month, Sunday Salon will celebrate 9 years of literary love. Since 2002, we’ve welcomed to the stage over 360 fantastic writers from near and far, and we’re going to, as the fabulous M. Jackson put it, “Keep on with the force don’t stop!” Join us in welcoming four more literary powerhouses and a special musical guest. Let’s celebrate! At Jimmys 43, 7pm.
Justin Taylor is the author of the novel, The Gospel of 
Anarchy, and the story collection, Everything Here is the Best Thing Ever. Both books were New York Times Editor’s Choice selections. With …
NYC | May 15, 2011
April showers are bringing beautiful May flowers of the literary type to the next Sunday Salon! Do come and check out these not-your-garden-variety writers. Jimmys 43 at 7pm.
Jess Row is the author of two collections of short stories, The Train 
to Lo Wu and Nobody Ever Gets Lost (just published in February 2011). His fiction has appeared in The Atlantic, Granta, Conjunctions, Ploughshares, and many other journals, and has received a Whiting Writers Award, a PEN/O. Henry Award, two Pushcart Prizes, and three selections for The Best American Short Stories. In 2007 he was named a “Best Young American …
NYC | April 10, 2011
Ah, Spring! Though the weather begs to differ, spring has arrived and we’re celebrating the season of new life and, drum roll please… new books! Come join us in welcoming four outstanding writers and special musical guests to the Salon stage. At Jimmys 43, 7pm.
Paul Lisicky is the author of Lawnboy, Famous 
Builder, and the forthcoming books The Burning House (2011) and Unbuilt Projects (2012). His work has appeared in Ploughshares, The Iowa Review, StoryQuarterly, The Seattle Review, Five Points, Subtropics, Gulf Coast, and many other anthologies and magazines. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he’s the recipient …
NYC | March 20, 2011
The web is currently abuzz with the discussion about race and our treatment of and fraught relationship with speaking about race, between poets Claudia Rankine and Tony Hoagland. The title of the Blue Parlor reading at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, “From the Dark Tower,” comes from a poem of the same name by Countée Cullen, the focus of the text being the many ways in which our engagement with issues of ethnicity are “kept in the dark” and where he argues for taking those discussions to the heights reached by a tower which would allow us all to hear and benefit from the conversation. The “From the Dark Tower” …
NYC | February 20, 2011
This month, and in spirit of the historic events in North Africa (they spilled onto the streets and a revolution began), we celebrate the the theme of spill, that is, what gets out of control, what we try to control, and what controls us. Join us for a special reading with writers from the latest issue of SalonZine: SPILL!
Roof Alexander is a fiction writer living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The past ten years he has lived in North Carolina, Amsterdam, Colorado, San Francisco, Central America and the Appalachian Mountains whilst collecting millions of words upon the page. Amongst these …
NYC | January 16, 2011
Welcome 2011! Sunday Salon celebrates a magnificent new year with a lineup of marvelous writers. Join us at Jimmys 43 at 7pm.
Monique Truong was born in Saigon, South Vietnam and currently lives in 
Brooklyn. She is the author of two novels Bitter in the Mouth and The Book of Salt. Her first novel, The Book of Salt, was a New York Times Notable Book and a recipient of the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, a Bard Fiction Prize, a Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award, and the 7th Annual Asian American Literary Award, among others. …
Happy Holidays!
Sunday Salon will resume in January 2011 to celebrate another fantastic literary new year. Happy Holidays!
NYC | November 21, 2010
Ahhh, November brings more literary joy! The next Salon welcomes four writers who look closely at our compelling histories and gleefully delve into poetry, music, and food! Come, satisfy your hunger (and have a beer): Jimmys 43 (43 E. 7th St. b/w 2nd & 3rd Aves) at 7pm.
Luis H. Francia is the author of several books, including Eye of the Fish: A Personal Archipelago which won both the 2002 PEN Center Open Book and the 2002 Asian American Writers literary awards. His poetry collections include the recently released The Beauty of Ghosts (performed as theater at Topaz Arts in …
NYC | October 17, 2010
Welcome Autumn! Welcome cooler weather and color on the trees! Welcome four spectacular writers to Sunday Salon at Jimmys 43 at 7pm!
Rick Moody was born in New York City. He attended Brown and Columbia 
universities. His first novel, Garden State, was the winner of the 1991 Editor’s Choice Award from the Pushcart Press and was published in 1992. The Ice Storm was published in May 1994 by Little, Brown & Co. Foreign editions have been published in twenty countries. (A film version, directed by Ang Lee, was released by Fox Searchlight in 1997, and won best screenplay at the …
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, …
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