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 of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the James Michener/Copernicus Society, the Henfield Foundation, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, where he was twice a fellow. He lives in New York City and Springs, New York, and has taught in the graduate writing programs at Cornell University, Rutgers-Newark, and Sarah Lawrence College. He currently teaches at NYU.
Karen Abbott is the New York Times bestselling author of 
Sin in the Second City and American Rose. A native of Philadelphia, she now lives in New York City with her husband and two African Grey parrots who do a mean Ethel Merman. She’s at work on her next book, a true story of the Civil War told through the perspectives of four women who risked everything for their cause. Visit her online at: www.KarenAbbott.net.
Erika Dreifus is the author of Quiet Americans, a short-story 
collection that is largely inspired by the histories and experiences of her paternal grandparents, German Jews who escaped Nazi persecution and immigrated to the United States in the late 1930s. Erika earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from Harvard University, where she taught history, literature, and writing for several years. Currently, she lives in New York City.
Bino A. Realuyo is the author of The Umbrella Country, a 
novel, and The Gods We Worship Live Next Door, a poetry collection. After twelve years in print, The Umbrella Country debuted on Nook and Kindle in February 2011. His works have appeared in The Nation, The Kenyon Review, The Literary Review, New Letters, and several anthologies. For the past fifteen years, he has worked as an Adult Educator and Community Organizer in underserved communities in New York City. He can be found on the web at http://binoarealuyo.com.
MUSICAL GUESTS:
Karen & the Sorrows are camped out in a vinyl booth somewhere between alt-country and that moment in the seventies when country crossed over into pop, saving all our quarters for the saddest songs on the diner jukebox. If you’ve got a tear in your beer, we’re your band. Check them out here: Karen & the Sorrows.
