Table Talkers talk back
Members of Salon's reader community reveal why they subscribe -- and why you'll want to, too.
A tremendous resource for anyone who wants to dig beneath the surface of conventional news coverage and commentary.
I subscribe to Salon's Table Talk not only because the conversation is so lively and well-informed, but because I often find leads and links to information that I would otherwise have missed. It isn't just a space for people to vent and flame -- although there is plenty of hot debate. It's also a tremendous resource for anyone who wants to dig beneath the surface of conventional news coverage and commentary.
-- Salon contributor and "The Hunting of the President" co-author Joe Conason
When it's good, it's very, very good, and when it's bad, it's hilarious.
Salon Table Talk is an evergreen education in How to Make Friends and Influence People, and the best Internet venue for learning how difficult it sometimes is to do both at once.
When it's good, it's very, very good, and when it's bad, it's hilarious.
-- Judith Greer
It's real life. Real people. But a lot better.
I subscribe to TT because, simply put, I can't imagine a better way to spend my time online. Nowhere else do I find a group of people that are so funny, well read, articulate, and willing to ponder the questions of life, from the mundane to the cerebral. My life has been enriched and expanded by the people I have come in contact with -- indeed, before TT, I despaired of ever knowing people who see life the way I do, as an adventure to be examined in all its facets. There's a place for every topic I can come up with, and many that I've never previously thought of. And a few that still scare me!
It's real life. Real people. But a lot better. Because through TT we reach out to one another and make the world that much smaller.
-- Fraro
Table Talk leads to marriage
Table Talk is certainly the most consistently interesting online forum we've found. We've been posting here for more than 4 years because the conversations are lively, and we've made lots of friends. But that's only the third-coolest thing about TT.
The second-coolest thing is that TT is that the community doesn't just exist online. At several F2F gatherings, we've shared meals with fellow TTers from both here in Chicago and around the world.
The coolest thing about TT, though, is that we met each other here, first in several threads online, then at one of the F2Fs. Ah, love! We've been together for two and a half years, and we're getting married in May. We still post every day.
We're not saying you'll find your true love at Table Talk, but we're not saying you won't.
-- Amy Carlton and Jim Allenspach
It's kind of like life
I've met some of the most inspiring, brave, funny, smart, witty, worthwhile people I know on Table Talk. I've also met some people who made the people I already know, in their myriad imperfections, look a damn sight better in comparison. (So, all upside). It's lively and fun and heartrending and poignant and infuriating, and the people you don't want to talk to will inevitably go off with likeminded friends to preen themselves.
It's kind of like life that way, only it's awake at the same time you are.
--Julia Hendricks
Everything from science to Buffy!
I've been posting on Table Talk since 1995, and there is nothing online quite like it for variety and lively push-and-shove. I'm a subscriber to discussion threads on evolution, the image of science, global warming, various political dust-ups, energy (my special field) and news media controversies. And of course the thread on my TV favorite, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. As I say, nothing like it. Y'all come and subscribe.
-- Cyrus Noe
Good conversation, some of the best out there.
Table Talk: start with how to cook Tuscan soup. Move on to why the government is making your molars grind. Stop in for a debate about good versus evil on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Throw in a Broadway musical. Along the way there's everything from lipstick to Victorian poetry to boots with very, very high heels.
Good conversation, some of the best out there. That's why I subscribe. Yourself?
--Deborah Grabien
