Paging Gertrude Stein: Inside a South Williamsburg Writing Salon

On Sunday night, just before a downpour washed New York City momentarily clean, I rode an elevator to the 8th floor of a residential building in South Williamsburg. A sticky note on a door at the end of the hall read “Writers Salon” and instructed me to hit the black doorbell beneath it.
Shortly thereafter, I was greeted by Georgia Clark, a novelist and Australian native, who recently sold her third book, The Regulars, to an imprint of Simon and Schuster called Atria. Behind Clark,