Babylon Salon
presents a special performance
Saturday, September 14, 2024
in The Sycamore's outdoor patio
2140 Mission St, San Francisco [16th St BART]
Come for drinks at 5 // Show starts at 5.30pm
featuring
Caroline Paul
[Tough Broad: From Boogie Boarding to Wing Walking―How Outdoor Adventure Improves Our Lives as We Age]
“This arc of a critical life blueprint comes from the toughest broad I know, Caroline Paul. You turn the last page of Tough Broad and promise yourself to spend every minute possible in the Great Outdoors.” ―Diana Nyad
Caroline Paul is the author of seven books, including the NYT bestseller The Gutsy Girl, Escapades for Your Life of Epic Adventure. Her illustrated memoir, called Lost Cat, A True Story of Love, Desperation and GPS Technology has been translated into 15 languages. Her TED talk on raising confident girls by teaching them to practice bravery has over 2 million views. She is a longtime member of the Writers Grotto. When she is not writing, she is flying her gyrocopter or paddling a stand up board on the bay.
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Naomi J. Williams
[Landfalls]
“Ms. Williams brilliantly moves across continents and gives each landfall a distinct and evocative voice… Landfalls is intelligent and utterly human. Ms. Williams has written a seductive page-turner that … draws the reader in and doesn’t let go.” —Wall Street Journal
Naomi J. Williams is the author of the novel Landfalls and the forthcoming short story collection Strange Trouble. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in many places, including LitHub, the Sacramento Noir anthology, Bourbon Penn, the Brevity blog, One Story, A Public Space, and Electric Literature. Her work has been recognized with a Pushcart Prize, Best American Short Stories honorable mention, Sustainable Arts Foundation fellowship, and residencies at Hedgebrook, Djerassi, Willapa Bay, VCCA, and the Vermont Studio Center. A biracial Japanese-American, she was born and partly raised in Japan, she lives in Sacramento, California, and teaches with the low-res MFA program at Ashland University in Ohio.
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Leigh Lucas
[Landsickness]
“Landsickness names and navigates a shattering grief in every possible way: through the pulse, via the intellect, from the shivering body and all its sweaters, over land, underwater, in the leaky vastness of night, in suffocating day, in a therapist’s questions, with rage and somehow humor, too… Such a gift, these spacious pages, this space in which any feeling, however unruly, can walk through and receive the honor of vibrating attention.” — Chen Chen
Leigh Lucas is a writer in San Francisco. Her chapbook Landsickness (Tupelo Press, 2024) was selected by Chen Chen for the 2023 Sunken Garden Poetry Chapbook Award. She has been awarded residencies at Tin House, Community of Writers, and Kenyon, and her poems can be found in Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, Alta Journal, Smartish Pace, and elsewhere. She holds a BA from Stanford and an MFA from Warren Wilson
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Sheri T. Joseph
[Edge of the Known World]
“In this smart, multi-layered debut, Joseph constructs a thoughtful dystopian near-future adventure complete with genetic screening, international thrills, playful wit, and a welcome touch of romance...Throughout, Joseph’s vivid worldbuilding and her scarifying descriptions of an oppressive state never detract from the psychological drama of these convincing, complex characters.”– Publishers Weekly BookLife Review
Sheri T. Joseph studied economics and geography at UC Berkeley, and received a JD from UC Law San Francisco. She serves as executive director of a nonprofit corporation that supports creation of affordable housing for families, veterans, refugees, and vulnerable populations. Sheri and her husband have three adventurous children and live in California. Edge of the Known World is her debut novel.
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Dominic Lim
[Karaoke Queen]
"A joyous celebration of drag, karaoke, and Filipino culture. A hilarious yet fervent tribute to the places and people that make being one’s authentic self possible."―Publishers Weekly, starred review
Dominic Lim’s debut novel, All the Right Notes, has been named a 2023 best book by USA Today, Harper’s Bazaar, Library Journal, and Entertainment Weekly, who called it “a swoony, joyful rom-com to take readers into a love story worthy of a Broadway stage.” His 2nd novel, Karaoke Queen, is out September 17. He is a member of the Writers Grotto and a co-host of Babylon Salon. He holds a Master of Music from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, is an alum of Oberlin College and Conservatory of Music, and has sung with numerous professional early music and choral ensembles. As a proud member of the Actors’ Equity Association he has performed Off-Broadway and in regional productions throughout the US. He works as a paralegal for a biotech company in the Bay Area and lives in Oakland with his loving and supportive husband, Peter, and their whiny cat, Phoebe.
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