The acclaimed salon-style reading series Nameless Writers Salon, co-created by artist Kara Hoblin and author Matthew Daddona, presents the launch of its third season. The eleventh installment of the series will take place on Thursday, November 18, at Sound View Greenport. The evening’s theme is “Appleseed: The Core of What Makes Us Human (Or What Poisons Us),” inviting guest authors to probe myths, origins, and contradictions in human identity. Matthew Daddona will kick off the season as the host and participating reader.
This season opens with a powerhouse lineup: Marlon James, Booker Prize–winning author and New York Times bestseller; Isaac Fitzgerald, bestselling author and “Today Show” contributor; Nicholas Boggs, celebrated author, editor, and literary critic; and Emily Flouton, award-winning short story writer with work in The Atlantic, Tin House, and Publishers Weekly. Each will present new, original work across fiction, nonfiction, or hybrid forms, designed to challenge, unsettle, and illuminate.
Nicholas Boggs is the author of “Baldwin: A Love Story” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), a finalist for the 2025 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction. He co-edited “Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood” (with French artist Yoran Cazac), and is a recipient of a 2023 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, with residencies at Yaddo and MacDowell.
Isaac Fitzgerald is the author of “Dirtbag, Massachusetts” (a New York Times bestseller and award winner) and “How to Be a Pirate,” among other works. His essays and features have appeared in numerous national publications. He currently resides on the North Fork of Long Island and is at work on his next book, American Rambler.
Marlon James is one of the most celebrated voices in contemporary fiction. His “A Brief History of Seven Killings” won the 2015 Booker Prize. His other works, including “Black Leopard, Red Wolf,” have earned national recognition and acclaim.
Emily Flouton is a writer from Massachusetts living in Brooklyn. Her short stories and essays have appeared in The Atlantic, Tin House, Publishers Weekly, The Massachusetts Review, Gay Magazine, Subtropics, The Forge, DIAGRAM, and other places. She won the 2020 Kurt Brown Fiction Prize from AWP, holds an MFA in creative writing from Portland State University, and teaches at Lighthouse Writers Workshop.
Nameless Writers Salon began in January 2024 and quickly became a local favorite. The inaugural salon drew capacity crowds and even maintained a waiting list, with Sound View accommodating 60 patrons per event. The salon is always free to attend in the spirit of art being shared and open to all. Monthly salons are set in The Library of the hotel and feature a rotating curator who selects themes and up to five readers per event. The Halyard restaurant is open for food and beverage purchases. A short intermission sometimes includes a giveaway or trivia, and in classic salon tradition, guests are seated among new company (though parties are kept together). Over the course of the first two seasons, the series has developed a dedicated audience across writing, arts, and literary communities.