The Essay Daily Salon Series

Our Essay Daily Salon Series hosts intimate conversations with writers we love, pitched at writers in or out of creative writing programs, loosely aimed toward shop talk around the essay.

May 17, 5pm Pacific/8 Eastern: What's Genre Got to Do with It? A Salon on Hybrid Work featuring Megan Culhane Galbraith and Kristine Langley Mahler

Missed it? Here's the archive.

Megan Culhane Galbraith is a writer, visual artist, and an adoptee. She is the author of The Guild of the Infant Saviour: An Adopted Child’s Memory Book, a hybrid memoir-in-essays published by Mad Creek Books on May 21, 2021. Her work was Notable in Best American Essays 2017 and her writing and art have been published in Tupelo Quarterly, Hobart, Longreads, Hotel Amerika, Catapult, and Redivider, among others. She is the Associate Director of the Bennington Writing Seminars and the founding director of the Governor’s Institutes of Vermont Young Writers Institute. www.megangalbraith.com

Kristine Langley Mahler is a memoirist experimenting with the truth on the suburban prairie outside Omaha, Nebraska. Author of Curing Season (WVU Press, 2022) and recipient of a 2021 Individual Artist Fellowship from the Nebraska Arts Council, Kristine's work was named Notable in Best American Essays 2019 and is published in DIAGRAM, Ninth Letter, Brevity, Speculative Nonfiction, and The Rumpus, among others. She is the director and publisher at Split/Lip Press. Find more about her projects at kristinelangleymahler.com or @suburbanprairie.

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PAST EVENTS:

On March 1, 2021, Matthew Gavin Frank and Nicole Walker talked about Processing Disaster

Matthew Gavin Frank is the author of the nonfiction books The Mad Feast: An Ecstatic Tour Through America’s Food, Preparing the Ghost: An Essay Concerning the Giant Squid and Its First Photographer, Pot Farm, and Barolo; the poetry books The Morrow Plots, Warranty in Zulu, and Sagittarius Agitprop; and 2 chapbooks. His new nonfiction book, Flight of the Diamond Smugglers (about, among other things, the ways in which carrier pigeons are used by diamond smuggling rings) came out this February 2021 from W.W. Norton: Liveright.

Nicole Walker is the author of the books The After-Normal: Brief, Alphabetical Essays on a Changing Planet, Sustainability: A Love Story, Where the Tiny Things Are, Egg, Micrograms, and Quench Your Thirst with Salt. [facebook] [twitter]

On 11.30.20 From the Essay to the Book, featured Kati Standefer and Kelly Sundberg. We talked with both writers about how they got from publishing an essay and getting some attention from agents to selling and publishing a book. It's archived here (for at least a couple months).

On 8.21.20, Talking Back to Books featured Kim Adrian, author of The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet: a Memoir, Sock (Object Lessons series), and Dear Knausgaard, and editor of Shell Game: Writers Play with Borrowed Forms and Stephanie Reents, author of I Meant to Kill Ye and The Kissing List. 

We published this expanded transcript of our conversation here if you missed it.

On 10.30.20, The Polymorphous Essay featured Bethany Maile, author of Anything Will Be Easy After This and Sarah Minor, author of Bright Archive, in conversation with Ander Monson. Archived here (for a while at least).

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