The Salon Book Club

In the Salon book club, we read books about writing. Very meta, we know.

We've read Anne Lamott, Samuel Delany, bell hooks, Amy Tan, Ursula Le Guin, Kurt Vonnegut with Suzanne McConnell, Ernest Hemingway, Donald Maass, Roy Peter Clark, Mary Oliver, Michael Kardos, Matthew Salesses, Stephen King, George Saunders, Mary Karr, Toni Morrison, Renni Browne with Dave King, Julia Cameron, and Lisa Cron.

Rather than discuss once, we read and practice with one book over a season to explore how to bring the insights into our own writing. This summer, we're reading Blake Snyder's "Save The Cat," along with a few iconic screenplays. We'll meet every other week on these dates to discuss these chapters:
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• July 12th, read through Chapter 3 + Good Will Hunting script
• July 26th, read through Chapter 6 + 21 Jump Street
• August 9th, read through the end + script picked by group​

​All members welcome, no need to sign up, just show up and ideally read (not a requirement, but helpful!) You can jump in at any time, though more fun if you stick with the group for the duration. 

Sneak preview of books for the rest of 2025 (selected from these books on writing): Sep - Nov: Brandon Sanderson lectures OR Novelist As A Vocation