by Catherine Davidson After eight years of hosting the Salon, Sarah Glazer has returned to New York, passing the care of one of London’s long running women’s literary salons onto a capable group of writers who will now share hosting in North and West London. What started in the living room of Diane Middlebrook will …
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by Sarah Glazer Wednesday, 30th November, 7 pm. Novelist Deborah Levy discussed her latest novel, Hot Milk, which was shortlisted for this year’s Man Booker Prize. Her 2012 novel Swimming Home won widespread critical praise and was also shortlisted for the Booker. Critically acclaimed for her intelligence and originality as a writer, Levy is the …
Tuesday, 20th September, 7 pm. Biographer Anne Sebba discussed her new book, Les Parisiennes, about how Parisian women survived the World War II German occupation of Paris and its aftermath. Fiction writer and editor Elena Lappin, author of the short story collection Foreign Brides, discussed her new memoir What Language Do I Dream In? about …
by Sarah Glazer Newsweek Middle East Editor Janine di Giovanni discussed her new book about the conflict in Syria, The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria. Janine di Giovanni is a war correspondent and a contributing editor for Vanity Fair. She is a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow, and a current Senior Fellow at Yale …
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Autobiography in Truth and Fiction: Rachel Cusk in conversation with Catherine Temma Davidson by Sarah Glazer Rachel Cusk has been called by the New York Times “One of the smartest writers alive.” Her novels and nonfiction explore the great themes of our lives: marriage, motherhood, relationships, the tensions in the lives of women between private …
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