Babylon Salon

presents a special performance

Saturday, March 2, 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

Venita Blackburn

(Dead in Long Beach, California; How to Wrestle a Girl)

"A spell-binding meditation on grief, loss, and familial obligation. Dead in Long Beach, California delves into the aftermath of an unexpected death to illuminate what it means to be alive."

— Jonathan Escoffery, author of If I Survive You

"You can try bracing yourself for the ride this story takes you on, but it's best to just surrender. Your wig is going to fall off no matter what you do." 

—Saeed Jones, author of How We Fight for Our Lives

Anhvu Buchanan

(The Peeling of a Name; The Disordered)

“Melancholic, often beautiful and weirdly funny, this book is like Edward Hopper meets Hitchcock, meets David Lynch, but imbued with a very contemporary kind of blasé and media-abetted alienation.” 

— Linh Dinh, author of Blood and Soap and Jam Alerts

James J. Siegel

(The God of San Francisco)

"James Siegel’s The God of San Francisco is one man’s spiritual journey through a city marked by violence, queer history, and the legacy of AIDS. Nothing escapes his attention, not the vanished Castro Funeral Home, not the “pale, bony torsos” sunning in Dolores Park… [T]hese poems are as vivid and heartfelt as the world they map."

—Bruce Snider, author of Fruit and Paradise, Indiana

Shikha Malaviya

(Anandibai Joshee: A Life in Poems)

“Shikha Malaviya's clever and inventive poems inhabit the contested space where Western culture collides with Hindu mythology, in a resplendent crash of forms that range from prose poems to lyrical litanies, all of them deeply felt and elegantly crafted.”

—Ravi Shankar

—

in partnership with our friends

The Booksmith

in their new location at 1727 Haight Street, San Francisco

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Free Admission!