Princeton’s own literary festival, the Salon on Stockton Street, returns for its second year from Friday, March 31, through Sunday April 2. Two neighbors on Stockton Street, Morven Museum and Garden, and the Center of Theological Inquiry (CTI), are collaborating once again to host a varied international program of book interviews with authors from Ireland, the U.S.A., New Zealand, Scotland, and the Netherlands, a one-man play on Charles Darwin, and a private tour of Morven’s Bruce Springsteen photographic exhibition. The Salon opens at 5:30 p.m. on Friday evening with a reception at Morven to meet the authors and enjoy a private tour of the Bruce Springsteen exhibition with Morven curator Beth Allan.

On Saturday, BBC broadcaster Sally Magnusson will interview four very different authors from around the world at CTI’s Luce Hall. Philip McDonagh, the former Irish ambassador to Russia and a published poet in his native Ireland, will discuss Gondla, his own translation of a Russian play about an Irish legend set in Iceland. David Grinspoon is an American planetary scientist whose book, Earth in Human Hands, tells the story of how humans are changing the planet for both good and ill. A prize-winning crime novelist in New Zealand, Liam McIlvanney will discuss the first two novels in his Conway Trilogy about a Glasgow journalist in the world of crime and politics in Scotland and Northern Ireland. In closing, Ms. Magnusson will discuss the challenge of writing family memoirs with Pia de Jong, a Dutch writer now living in Princeton.

Local Princeton businesses are also part of the Salon on Saturday. Labyrinth Books will run book sales and author signings at Luce Hall, and Jammin’ Crepes will have its food truck at Morven for lunch.

The Salon’s last day will begin at 2 p.m. on Sunday afternoon, April 2, at Luce Hall, with the performance of Murray Watts’s one-man play on the life of Charles Darwin, Mr. Darwin’s Tree, with British actor Andrew Harrison. The performance will be followed by tea and a reception.

For questions about the Salon, specific times and ticket costs, contact salon@ctinquiry.org.

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