The London Literary Salon

Ulysses 2019 starts 15 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
Great Ideas, Great Books starts January 2019
Engage with key texts and ideas in the western intellectual tradition, ancient through modern, in this monthly study. New section starting late January 2019
Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient starts 23 January 2019
“We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves.” ― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
Homer's Iliad starts 09 January 2019
“Rage—Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus’ son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls. . .”
Lit Salon Book Club 06 January 2019: Olga Tokarczuk's Flights
The monthly London Lit Salon Book Club reads the finest 20th and 21st century literature from around the world.
Marcel Proust Study continues 17 January
“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.”
Toby Brothers, Salon Director
Coming studies 2019: Joyce's Ulysses, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, The English Patient, Proust . . .

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 Name	Location	Duration	Date	Time
Virginia Woolf in St Ives: Between the Acts October 2019	St Ives (weekend); pre-meeting Kentish Town	Weekend (Friday- Sunday)	October 18-20th; pre-meeting 15.10	Weekend
Reading the Body: Yoga & Salon Retreat in Umbria	Umbria Italy	One week	May 31st-June 7th 2020	All day
Moby Dick by Herman Melville	Kentish Town	Nine weeks	16.9- 25.11 2019	Mondays 5-7 PM
Ulysses by James Joyce 2020 Eve	Kentish Town	22 weeks	14 Jan - 23 June 2020	Tuesdays 12-2 PM or 7:30-9:30 PM
Homer's Odyssey in Greece	Island of Agistri, Rosy's Little Village	One week with one prep meeting	3rd-11th May 2020	Week retreat
Great Ideas, Great Books	London Bridge	Monthly study	Next meeting 17 September 2019	Tuesdays 6:00-8:30 PM
A Heart So White: Valencia Weekend	Valencia Spain	Weekend (Friday- Sunday)	November 15th-17th 2019	5 PM Friday -3 PM Sunday
Beloved Salon Intensive	Fairfax, VA and London	Five hours: One meeting	18.8.19 in Fairfax; 12.9.19 in London	2:30-7:30 PM / 5-10 PM London
The Waste Land Salon	Kentish Town	Three meetings evenings	Starts 17.9.19	5-7 PM or 7:30-9:30 PM
Proust V II-- Within a Budding Grove	Kentish Town	Eleven weeks	Starts 18.9.19	5-7 PM OR 7:30-9:30 PM

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