Monthly Archives: August 2013

Downtown Literary Salon Turns 10

We are very excited to share this terrific article from Downtown Express: Downtown Literary Salon Turns 10 please send it around to your friends! Our September Salon marks the opening of our Tenth Season of programming. Join us Tuesday, September 10th at Andaz Wall Street at 7pm!

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Downtown Literary Salon Turns 10

If you spent last weekend scanning those back-to-school circulars with the ulterior motive of appropriating some of your kid’s writing supplies for your own desk, then you might already be a member of Pen Parentis. You’re certainly thinking like one. Through peer support, outreach activities and podcasts, the NYC-based nonprofit literary organization provides resources to […]

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Welcome Brian Gresko!

We are delighted to welcome a new curator to the Pen Parentis Literary Salons! Brian Gresko is the editor of the anthology When I First Held You: 22 Critically Acclaimed Writers on Fatherhood, forthcoming from Berkley Books/Penguin on Father’s Day, 2014. He has contributed to The Huffington Post, and written about books and culture for […]

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Guest Blog – On a Book Tour with a Teen

Hello everyone! We are excited to welcome Brooklynite writer and filmmaker Peter von Ziegesar who wrote his entry while on a recent Reading Tour to Kansas City with his kids. Nostalgic…informative…take it away Peter:  July 7-14th This week I fly to Kansas City to do a reading of my book The Looking Glass Brother: A […]

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