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The penultimate Sunday Salon of the season lands on May 31, with an evening of bold work from five remarkable writers: Zeeva Bukai, Serkan Görkemli, Sara Lippmann, Denne Michele Norris, and Sarah Wang. New books, urgent voices, and fiction that cuts close — family, faith, desire, and the selves we can’t outrun. 5pm. Von Bar, […]

Note: Jaquira Díaz and Shuchi Saraswat were unable to attend. In their place, co-host Wil Turner and curator/host Ru Freeman read from their work for a warm and memorable evening. Sunday Salon returns on April 26 with Dark Tower, the reading series curated and hosted by Ru Freeman, born from the legendary Bread Loaf Writers’

Sunday Salon returns on March 22 with five writers mapping the distances between us — across oceans and generations, grief and faith, what parents pass down and what children make of it. Nadia Alexis, Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond, Melanie Faranello, Vikas K. Menon, and R. A. Villanueva bring luminous poetry and prose that reaches toward connection

We’re back after the snowstorm with a Sunday Salon on February 22, featuring Cortney Lamar Charleston, Michael Lowenthal, Svetlana Satchkova, and Claire W. Zhang. These brilliant poets and writers bring restless, intimate work—poetry, fiction, and memoir—where ghosts, grudges, and glittering accidents flicker and refuse easy answers. DJ DubSix will set the vibes. We can’t wait

As New York City embraces a new era of possibility, Sunday Salon returns for 2026 with fearless voices and stories that stay with you. On January 25th, join four powerful writers whose work cuts deep into identity, community, and the personal stakes of history. Stories of loss and resilience, of belonging and exile, of lives

We’re closing out the year on December 14th for a holiday-season Sunday Salon with Camille U. Adams, Wah-Ming Chang, Quincy Scott Jones, and Jennifer Sears. These fierce and full-of-heart writers will share memoir, poetry, and short stories that crack open questions of home, identity, and the worlds we’re born into and create. Join us! The

Join us at the November 23rd Sunday Salon for a night of readings with four extraordinary women writers whose work moves across borders, bloodlines, and dreamscapes. Their stories navigate legacy, love, survival, and the strange beauty of becoming. Hear worlds you haven’t met yet. DJ DubSix returns to keep the grooves going. 5pm. Von Bar,

Join us for a powerful evening at the October 19th Sunday Salon, featuring four remarkable writers whose work traces the uncertain lines between memory and reinvention, home and exile, intimacy and distance. Belonging is redefined in the blurred spaces where their stories intersect. DJ DubSix returns with a mix that keeps the vibe going. Von

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,

We’re wrapping the season with a special Saturday edition of Sunday Salon and kicking off summer at the same time. Join us on June 7th from 4:30 to 6:30pm for our last event before the summer break and a toast to 23 years of community and great writing. We’re thrilled to welcome a dynamic group