Sara Pascoe is launching a new monthly literary salon in London. Sara Pascoe’s Literary Salon will take place downstairs at The Book Club in Shoreditch. 

Pascoe came up with the idea for this event after being inspired by the intimate space downstairs at The Book Club, which seats no more than 70. Sara’s Literary Salon will see fictional and long dead writers perform stories, poems and plays with audience participation around the night’s theme strongly encouraged. 

According to the publicists, literary ‘salons’ were typical in the French literary and philosophical movements of the 17th and 18th centuries and were historically important meeting places for the exchange of ideas. Before the 17th century it wasn’t uncommon for these literary gatherings to be held in a bedroom where a lady, reclining on her bed, would receive close friends who would sit on chairs or stools drawn around.

Tickets here.