Sunday Salon is back from summer break, launching the Fall 2025 season on September 21 with an evening of urgent, boundary-pushing literature. This month’s readers explore translation, migration, memory, and identity—crossing borders both literal and emotional. With fiction that challenges, memoirs that reveal, and narratives that stretch across continents and cultures. Come for the words, stay for the vibe. With music by DJ DubSix and your favorite co-hosts, Wil and Carissa. 5pm at Von Bar, 3 Bleecker St.
Benjamin Brooks is a writer, an editor, and a translator of Brazilian literature. He is a Fulbright Scholar and a 2024 Periplus Fellow. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Roohi Choudhry was born in Pakistan, grew up in southern Africa, and now calls Brooklyn home. She is the author of Outside Women (University Press of Kentucky, 2025), named one of the most anticipated feminist books of 2025 by Ms. Magazine and described as “riveting… an incisive story of how change happens” by Publishers’ Weekly. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan and is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship and residencies at Hedgebrook and Djerassi. Her stories and essays have appeared in Ploughshares, Callaloo, Longreads, Poets & Writers, and the Kenyon Review. She has worked as a researcher in criminal justice reform and public health, wrote for the United Nations, and facilitates creative writing workshops for community organizations. Learn more at roohichoudhry.com.
Francisco Delgado is a CHamoru writer of poetry and prose. His novella, On Remembering My Friends, My First Job, and My Second-Favorite Weezer CD, won the 2024 Clay Reynolds Prize and is published with Texas Review Press. Other creative work has recently appeared in MĀNOA: A Pacific Journal of International Writing, Poets of Queens (vol. 2), JMWW, and Lost Balloon. He teaches at Borough of Manhattan Community College and lives in Queens with his wife and their son.
Tracy O’Neill is the author of the memoir Woman of Interest, one of Esquire‘s Best Memoirs of 2024 and Electric Literature‘s Best Nonfiction Books of 2024. Her novels include The Hopeful, one of Electric Literature’s Best Novels of 2015; and Quotients, a New York Times New & Noteworthy Book, TOR Editor’s Choice, & Literary Hub Favorite Book of 2020. She has been named a Civitella Ranieri Fellow, a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, and a Center for Fiction Emerging Writers Fellow. She was long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Her writing has appeared in Granta, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, the New Yorker, LitHub, BOMB, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, The Believer, The Literarian, The Austin Chronicle, New World Writing, The Baffler, Narrative, 4Columns, Scoundrel Time, Guernica, Bookforum, Electric Literature, Grantland, Vice, The Guardian, VQR, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Catapult. She holds an MFA from the City College of New York; and an MA, an MPhil, and a PhD from Columbia University. She teaches at Vassar College.