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, …
Chicago | Aug. 28, 2011
Join Sunday Salon Chicago and our guest curator, Gina Frangello of The Nervous Breakdown, as we present The Nervous Breakdown Literary Experience: Chicago, featuring Cris Mazza, UIC professor and author of 16 books, most recently Various Men Who Knew Us as Girls; Alex Shakar, instructor at University of Illinois-Champaign-Urbana and author of The Savage Girl, City in Love and the forthcoming Luminarium; Marisel Vera, author of If I Bring You Roses and Lenore Zion, celebrating her debut collection My Dead Pets Are Interesting. We’ll also pass the hat for our featured organization this month: the Chicago Underground Library. 8 p.m. at Katerina’s, 1920 W. Irving …
Chicago|July 31, 2011
EILEEN FAVORITE’s debut novel, The Heroines, was selected as a Best Debut Novel of 2008 by The Rocky Mountain News and has been translated into Italian, Finnish, Korean and Russian. The audio version of The Heroines was nominated forthe American Library Association’s Best Recordings of 2008. Her poetry and prose have been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize and have appeared in many publications, including TriQuarterly, the Chicago Reader, Conscious Choice and Poetry East. She is the two-time recipient of individual artist fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute (SAIC) and currently teaches writing at SAIC and at the Graham …
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” …
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