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 …
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 …





