Four times a year, the cozy downstairs of Cantina becomes Babylon Salon, San Francisco's Rollicking Reading and Performance Series.
Hosted by Timothy Crandle, Timothy Ried, Laurie Ann Doyle, Maury Zeff, and Lindsay Holland, the series showcases several writers and a featured literary magazine, the editor of which then presents one of the magazine's contributors.
Writers for Spring of 2010 were Tom Barbash, Rusty Morrison, Debby Bloch, and N.A. Jong, and the magazine was San Francisco's very own Fourteen Hills. Editor Fernando Pujals was there to present Jill Tidman.
As you can see above, there was even cake to celebrate Babylon's 3rd birthday.
Always intimate, the series has that candelight vibe I like to have at Quiet Lightning. In fact, I so enjoyed my first Babylon Salon that I booked Cantina for the first QL.
N.A. Jong
Fernando Pujals introduces
The next Babylon Salon will take place on September 11, 2010, and will feature
Ayelet Waldman, Julio Kono, and others to be announced.
«« a calendar of events (through the first .5 of june) »»
« Announcements, etc. »
- Do you have tickets for Literary Death Match at the Yerba Buena Center?!
- Have you heard about the Rumpus Book Club? It's the best idea. Mon 14th!
- This will be a great writing workshop on Sat June 12. Tanya has crazy skills and she's fuuun!
If you don't love Alia Volz, we have some differences! Read The Inn & Out. - Read Ian Tuttle's story The Submersible.
- Got any rock tales?
- The latest ZYZZYVA is reviewed.
- Telephone: An Experiment in First Lines
- Newly published authors talk about the processes that got them there
- Cool stuff you should know
- Howard Junker compiled a great list of authors reading their own works [listen]
- If you haven't read We're Getting On yet, you really should. Here's another excerpt. July 16.
- Quiet Lightning reader Roger Porter has just published The Souls of Hood Folk. It's amazing.
- Andy O. Dugas has a story on Scribd you will definitely enjoy: Pretzel.
If you have anything you'd like me to include, send me an email.
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