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Please join us for a special Mother’s Day Salon celebrating Issue Six of The Mom Egg! Raw and real, lively and lustful, The Mom Egg is an annual collection of poetry, prose, and drawings by creative artists who are also mothers.

April showers bring…four literary gems to the next Sunday Salon! So ready yourself for some bright, shiny prose and leave your umbrellas at home (um, unless, it’s really raining outside). Janice Erlbaum (www.janiceerlbaum.com) is the author of Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir (Villard, March ’06), and Have You Found Her: A Memoir (Villard, Feb. ’08).

Ah spring! Well, almost. We’ll approach the new season in the company of four literary luminaries who write across the genres, teach, act, and inspire. Come see (and hear) for yourself! Luis H. Francia is a poet, nonfiction writer/journalist, and playwright. His last collection of poetry was Museum of Absences (2004). His memoir Eye of

Travel to Africa and India, through outer space and back to the East Village all in one night? Anything is possible with these four writer-cosmopolites at the next Sunday Salon. It’s going to be hot! (So remember to bring some sunscreen and a hat!)

If you think the caucuses are engrossing—the persona battle, the tireless campaigning, the confident and the conflicted voters—check out the next Sunday Salon! This sure-to-knock-your-socks-off lineup of writers include a veteran of Sunday Salon, a former criminal defense and constitutional lawyer, and an accomplished softball player. Turn out and support these luminous, literary talents!

You won’t want to miss this holiday event. Sugar plums and prose dancing in your head. A special reading from writers of The School of Dreams. So button up and dash to the nearest subway station to catch this holiday edition of Sunday Salon.

November’s readers include a returned Peace Corps Volunteer, a grant writer, and a college professor. These four writers will assault and fine tune your senses with their stories. Not all at once. And they’’ll be nice about it. We think.

We’ve scoured Manhattan day and night for four more talented writers to include a rower, a teacher, a marathon runner and a native New Yorker. You won’t want to miss this Salon.

Until we get the new website up and running, here is a recap of past Sunday Salons: David Gates is the author of the highly acclaimed novels Jernigan (Pulitzer Prize Finalist), Preston Falls (National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist), and The Wonders of the Invisible World (Vintage). He has published short stories in Esquire magazine