Book Salon for Curious Readers
What is a salon? A salon is a gathering of stimulating people of quality under the roof of an inspiring hostess or host, partly to amuse one another and partly to refine their taste and increase their knowledge through conversation and readings…. (from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.)
Spend a casual evening with Houston’s longest continuously running literary salon. Exchange ideas with our community’s leading-edge thinkers and conversationalists.
Begin with a contemporary book—who knows where the path will lead? Sometimes it is a stimulating discussion. Sometimes it is intellectual mud-wrestling.
Upcoming Salons
August Salon
Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age by Clay Shirky
Why bother to read it?
Clay Shirky’s book about crowdsourcing, Here Comes Everybody, was a salon book last year. Cognitive Surplus takes up where Here Comes Everybody left off.
Since the post-WWII boom, we have become isolated and suburbanized. We have a surplus of intellect, energy, and time that until now we have spent on media like TV and radio. We have lived in an environment where our interaction has been one-way. TV and other one-way media has isolated us.
New technology, like the internet and social media, has begun to change all of that. Using it is reconnecting us and changing us from consumers to collaborators. It is returning us to a time, like the early 20th century, when collaboration was a normal part of society.
Date: Wednesday, August 25
Time: 7:00-9:30pm
Location: The Home of Chris Welsh
2400 Yorktown #495
Houston, TX 77056
Cost: $15