How Literary Salons Made a Comeback

It was a cold Sunday night in January — an atypical party setting for a city devoted to hibernation. Zillennials introduced themselves, each a stranger with homemade brownies and non-alcoholic elixirs in hand, in the living room of poet S M “Vandie” Vande Kamp. This was not a dinner – invitees were encouraged to attend already fed – or a book club, although there would be a text discussed. We had arrived at a salon. “People need community," says Vandie....