The renassaince of literary salons

I just read in an article that relatively many book clubs appeared in the last years.
They are different from traditional literary salons: they are less fancy and more egalitarian, nevertheless they are places where to discuss about ideas and texts.
There is no recepy, no one formula for contemporary literary salons: they all show different featurs and aim to different targets.

Upper Wimpole Street Salon

"The Upper Wimpole Street Literary Salon provides a forum for women writers to meet and exchange ideas about ongoing work. We are a diverse group of over 100 writers from the fields of biography, journalism, fiction, poetry and scriptwriting. We meet about 5 times a year in central London. Each salon features members presenting a recently published book or a work-in-progress. Our informal setting allows for frank discussion of our craft and of the particular challenges women writers face in promoting and publishing their work."
Drinks, snacks, reading, interview and talk around an author last for two hours and costs 10 Pound. 
Parisian (and Londonese) Literary Salon: no more than 10 participants gather three hours for 4-6 times to study a book or an author, paying 38 Euros each.
Velvet Tongue Salon, London: once every three months paying three Pound you can discuss about selected porn texts.
Pen Parentis, Manhattan: only for writing parents.
Polari, London: gay fiction only, enriched by contemporary music and art. Based in the Southbank Center of London.
Shoreditchhouse, London: pizza and one cocktail are for free while the literary salon-event takes place.


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                  Tyrone Lebon A reading at the Shoreditch House Literary Salon.

"London: There’s a post-bubble revival under way, mixing homegrown culture, reclaimed buildings and vintage-clad traditionalists.

In a city that once considered book talk to be gauche in the extreme, people currently speak of little else. Literary salons are sprouting all over: in sawdusty pubs, at clubs with rooftop pools, at art centers and in private drawing rooms. "

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