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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

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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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Reading the Body : Yoga And Literature

Posted on 23 Sep 2017
I fight time. All the time. I frequently negotiate in my mind how I can squeeze in one more activity/outing/date—and how I can get from one place to another without factoring in travel time. I underestimate how long it takes me to transition from swimming to getting on my bike and das

Salonistas Comment 2017

Posted on 14 Jul 2017
Ulysses Feedback 2017  If you were recommending the study to a friend, what aspects might you highlight? “How enjoyable it is to learn and have fun in a group reading a book together and how what I thought was impossible – enjoying Ulysses – became possible through this exercise

NEW SALONS starting late August 2017

Posted on 12 Jul 2017
Although summer rhythms are calling…time to slow down & meander through the sun-lit glades–here are some of the coming studies if you want to add to your summer reading…. The London Literary Salon staff are offering thematic studies–each course stands alone
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Community events

Five Lessons– One Act radio play by Marcy Kahan

Posted on 27 Nov 2017
Marcy has a new, witty play on the BBC. Moments of wincing and laugh-out loud dialogue– lots of fun…. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09dtd3w Five Lessons A Month of…, A Month of Maureen Five Lessons by Marcy Kahan Nigella Smith is no ordinary piano student. Can her

F.bombe: Wreath making workshops, locally sourced flowers

Posted on 20 Nov 2017
Some of you may have participated in a recent study with Louise Chamberlain– she is one of the founders of f.bombe–truly a person that makes things happen. This holiday season, f.bombe is offering wreath-making workshops: “A few hours to immerse yourself in the senso

SoundBites Event

Posted on 28 Oct 2017
SOUNDBITES evenings are private soirée events with gourmet suppers, fine wines and very very good music, where invited friends meet in an intimate atmosphere, are served delicious suppers with wines and hear brilliant performances. Guests are greeted with a welcoming glass and hors d’
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