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  • Toby Brothers, Salon Director
    Coming studies 2017-18: Joyce, Short Stories, Great American Novels, Shakespeare, Woolf, Epic Greeks. . .
  • Marcel Proust Salon
    “Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.”
  • Ulysses 2018 starts 16 January
    "Plenty to see and hear and feel yet. Feel live warm beings near you. They aren't going to get me this innings. Warm beds: warm full blooded life." Ulysses
  • Invisible Man starts November 2017
    “I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.” ― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
  • Beloved Salon @ SAP
    Nov. 2017 Salon at SAP — “She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.” ― Toni Morrison, Beloved

Welcome to the London Literary Salon

The London Literary Salon creates community around the study of great literature.
The Salon offers unique and inclusive discussion-based studies of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama—weaving the ideas of participants with questions the books raise about what it is to be human.
Carefully facilitated, each study is dynamic and expansive in scope. Studies range from one-meeting intensives to six-month odysseys.
See our current offerings below.

Upcoming Salons

(click on course name for more information)

Course NameLocationDurationDateTime
Proust In Search of...Vol. I Swann's Way COURSE FULLKentish TownEight weeks26.4.18--21.6.1812-2 PM
Beloved five week studyKentish TownFive weeks11 April- 9 May7:30-9:30 PM
Infatuations in Valencia SpainValencia SpainWeekend (Friday- Sunday)May 18-20th 2018Starts Friday 5 PM
Finn Wake 4th SessionKentish TownSix weeks18.04- 23.5.181:30-3:30
Reading the Body retreatKandersteg SwitzerlandFour days31.5.18- 3.6.18All day
Mad Women: Creation & DestructionKentish TownEleven weeks14.1.18- 23.4.1810 AM - 12 Mondays or 7-9 PM Sunday evenings
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Kentish TownSeven weeks16.5- 11.7.18Wednesday evenings
Ulysses by James Joyce 2019Kentish Town20 weeksJanuary - June 2019Tuesdays 12-2 PM or 8-10:00 PM

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New Years and Renewal

Posted on 03 Jan 2016
I always expect more from the New Years’ moment. We invest so much into this idea of the change of the year– that there will be an overturning– a renewal commiserate with the birth of the New Year. When I making plans towards the coming year in December– it jus

Coming Salons & studies: Now & 2016

Posted on 22 Nov 2015
The days are short and the chill is settling in with some seriousness.  Some days it is enough just to get through–but if you are feeling inspired, look ahead towards the coming studies. These works will help illuminate the dark times of the year– and give purpose to your

Xenia in the Modern World

Posted on 22 Nov 2015
“Man of misery, whose land have I lit on now? What are they here -violent, savage, lawless? or friendly to strangers, god-fearing men?” The Odyssey by Homer- VI, 131-133 In these days of agony—horror at the events in Paris last weekend, further horror at the bombings in Beirut, the ho
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Boundary Art Gallery at the British Art Fair

Posted on 08 Sep 2015
Salonista Agi Katz, owner of the Boundary Art Gallery, is exhibiting this weekend…here are the details: 20/21 BRITISH ART FAIR 9 – 13 September 2015 at the Royal College of Art London SW7 2EU (next to the Royal Albert Hall) Once again, we are exhibiting at the prestigious

Housekeeping One day Salon Intensive

Posted on 14 Jun 2015
“To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as wh

Wild Swimming Walks Book

Posted on 24 May 2015
One of the wonderful innovations in publishing is a trend towards grass roots projects– though in this case, water roots may be more appropriate… The community at the Kenwood Ladies Pond has been a source of inspiration and regeneration for me and many others– and so
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