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It's on its own - a bad place for a government aboutus - Vasely Kovalyov, about 20, studentMoscow is a big railway station, about about aboutus nothing more, no soul - Tatyana Avrenskaya, 39, bankerMoscow aboutus is exciting, you get people of all kinds, good and bad. about It's too dangerous to live there - Vadim Petrov, 21, soldier. The Algonquin it's not, and it doesn't have asp a asp round asp table, but Liesl about aboutus Schillinger's Manhattan apartment is a literary asp salon. Every Sunday aboutus around 20 salonistes arrive at her home on East 5th Street to read their work aloud, to criticise and to try and poke fun in asp the style of Dorothy Parker.

There are more than 15 well-known salons in New York and they draw writers and artists from every discipline. Liesl Schillinger, 28, is a researcher at the New Yorker magazine, where Dorothy Parker worked as a reviewer in the late Twenties and early Thirties. Schillinger launched her New York salon after living in Eastern Europe. "The big thing in Russia is that people still look to each other for entertainment," she says, handing a quiche to a hungry young poet called Arthur "In Europe, the salon is still the place to hear new work. I missed that when I got back.""The salon movement has developed despite considerable resistance," says the Schillinger saloniste Andrew Cohen, who writes for the New York Observer. "American writers have never been keen on European drawing- room traditions. Ever since Gertrude Stein called Ernest Hemingway a Rotarian for spending time at the Algonquin, the practice has been fraught with the perils of pretension."It still is, if remarks overhead at Miss Schillinger's apartment are evidence.

"The novel should be an emotional gasp," from the hungry poet. "A pinball machine is so much more than a game," from a portrait artist. "Tarantino is an assassin, he wants to kill the film," from Liesl's brother Justin. And from Schillinger herself: "I don't play basketball and I don't play tennis.