Babylon Salon
presents a special performance
Saturday, March 12, 2022
resuming free, in-person shows in the covered, outdoor patio of
The Sycamore: 2140 Mission, San Francisco
Come for drinks at 5pm PST // Show starts at 5.30pm
Bring ID, proof of vaccination and mask
featuring
“Lee Kravetz has created a bit of a miracle, a plot-driven literary puzzle box whose mystery lives in both its winding approach to history and its wonderous story. It’s a book full of ideas about inspiration and a love for language that translates across borders, physical and generational.”
— Adam Johnson, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Orphan Master's SonLee Kravetz is the author of the novel The Last Confessions of Sylvia P., as well as acclaimed nonfiction, Strange Contagion and SuperSurvivors. He has written for print and television, including The New York Times, New York Magazine, Psychology Today, The Daily Beast, The San Francisco Chronicle, and PBS. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Last Confessions of Sylvia P. is his first novel.
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"Qi is a poet of ravenous curiosity and clear logic, up against the bewildering mysteries of death. These are poems of a wide-ranging intellectual wandering."
Jenny Qi is the author of Focal Point, winner of the 2020 Steel Toe Books Poetry Award. Her essays and poems have been published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Tin House, ZYZZYVA, Rattle, and elsewhere, and she has received fellowships and support from Tin House, Omnidawn, Kearny Street Workshop, and the San Francisco Writers Grotto. Born in Pennsylvania to Chinese immigrants, she grew up mostly in Las Vegas and Nashville and now lives in San Francisco, where she completed her Ph.D. in Cancer Biology. She is working on more essays and poems and translating her late mother’s memoirs of the Chinese Cultural Revolution and immigration to the U.S.
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Yang Huang
(My Old Faithful; My Good Son)
“My Good Son is a mesmerizing portrait of at least two societies in flux, seen in the story of one Chinese family challenged to change their sense of what a ‘good son’ is and what it would mean to love and support him. Provocative, funny, charming, Huang’s novel takes on the challenges of this moment of sexual politics with affection and honesty.”
—Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
Yang Huang grew up in Yangzhou, China and came to the U.S. to study computer science. While working as an engineer, she studied literature and pursued writing. Her novel My Good Son won the University of New Orleans Press Publishing Lab Prize. Her linked story collection, My Old Faithful, won the Juniper Prize for fiction, and her debut novel, Living Treasures, won the Nautilus Book Award silver medal in fiction. Her essays, stories, and screenplay have appeared in Poets & Writers, Literary Hub, The Margins and other publications. Yang lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and works for the University of California, Berkeley.
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(The Party is Here)
"In this dazzling debut, the 'here' of the title refers to a world slowly devolving into a capitalist climate dystopia, while “party” refers to the humans trying to reconcile their responsibility to help fix it with their ambitions and their sorrow. The party venue varies from a skating rink in Buenos Aires to a high school in Manitoba, and everyone’s invited." -- Chatelaine
Georgina Beaty is the author of the short story collection The Party is Here (Freehand Books, 2021). Her fiction has appeared in New England Review, The Walrus, The New Quarterly, The Fiddlehead, PRISM and elsewhere. As an actor and playwright, she’s worked with theatres across Canada and internationally, most recently with Belarus Free Theatre. She holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia and has been supported by fellowships and writing residencies at MacDowell, the Canadian Film Centre and The Banff Centre. She's currently a Stegner Fellow in fiction at Stanford University.
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with music from
(Songs of the Lowland Sun; The Maybird Project)
Scott Bird is a poet, musician and painter from San Francisco. He is a cofounder of the Coit Tower Poetry Club in North Beach, a member of the SF Revolutionary Poets Brigade and co-editor of their annual international anthology. His musical style is steeped in the folk tradition and a forthcoming album Songs of the Lowland Sun features musical settings of classic poetry including Yeats’ Sailing to Byzantium and Distance by Dorothy Parker. An abstract and impressionist painter, Scott’s work periodically hangs at Live Worms Gallery, heart of the North Beach community. In 2019 he founded The Maybird Project, an ongoing work dedicated to wholistic expression through art, poetry and music. This artistic vision can be viewed at www.themaybirdproject.com. He is a queer, communist, cowboy— bohemian to boot, only fitting that he hails from a Western Colorado town called Paradox.
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in partnership with our friends at
currently offering curbside pickup and in-person browsing
in their new location at
1727 Haight Street, San Francisco
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Free Admission!