Vote for Fall Salons London now

LONDON LITERARY SALON NEWS
23rd August 2012

FALL CHOICES

For the choices that interest you, mark preference for afternoon sessions, evening sessions, or one to two meeting intensives. There have been requests for more short intensives; while these offer an opportunity for a deep immersion, the struggle is to build a cohesive group in one or two meetings while covering the richness of the work. For some of the texts, I think this is particularly difficult therefore am scheduling two intensive meetings which would allow our work and momentum to move through the length of the work. For others, such as Paradise Lost, an intensive study is not ideal.

You can use the Doodle poll or simply contact me with your preferences in an email. Please complete this as soon as possible (by Monday August 27th noon at the latest) so I can announce the fall schedule with your input… the following will be scheduled (if there is interest) between the first week of September and mid-November. I am aiming for another Ulysseian spring so work in The Odyssey, Hamlet and The Portrait of the Artist are recommended if that is of interest.

*Descriptions for many of the following can be found by following the links to the website (please disregard the dates)*

The Aeneid by Virgil (Five two-hour meetings or two intensives)

Howard’s End by E. M. Forster (Five two-hour meetings or two intensives)

The Iliad with Christopher Logue’s War Music (Five two-hour meetings or two intensives)

“The Bear” by William Faulkner Short Story Intensive: one four-hour meeting

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (Five two-hour meetings or two intensives)

The Passion of New Eve by Angela Carter (Four two-hour meetings or one intensive)

Paradise Lost by John Milton (Five two-hour meetings)

The Odyssey by Homer (Five two-hour meetings or two intensives)

Hamlet by William Shakespeare (Five two-hour meetings or two intensives)

Richard III by William Shakespeare (Five two-hour meetings or two intensives)

Bleak House by Charles Dickens (Five two-hour meetings)

Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot (Three two-hour meetings or one intensive)

3 thoughts on “Vote for Fall Salons London now”

  1. Would you kindly post the dates and titles for the Literary Salon in Paris in October and November? I can’t find them anywhere on your site. Thank you.

    I have a number of ideas for the projected short story session. Will it be in Paris? The date?

  2. Hello Virginia–
    I am just concluding a wonderful weekend of Paris Salons and have suggestions and plans for the coming Salons in October and November. I will post these in the next two days but roughly, the next Paris Salons will be on the 19th-21st of October and will include Faulkner’s The Bear and Eliot’s Wasteland…also possibly the Sound and the Fury…November will be The Aeneid and some short stories–please do offer some suggestions!

  3. Hello, Thank you for the information about the Paris salons. As soon as I have the date for The Aeneid salon, I will decide whether it is more convenient to follow it in Paris (and not London) as I assume it will involve a number of sessions.
    As for the short story salon, I would suggest the short stories of Katherine Mansfield, Isaac Babel, certain from Dubliners (“Araby”, “Eveline”, “The Boarding House”, and “The Dead”), Flannery O’Connor, Wm Faulkner, and Kate Chopin. Obviously, there are many more excellent short story writers.

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