By Christopher Hudgens
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] download Tim Kinsella was born right after Nixon resigned. He descends from downstate Irish farmers and Humboldt Park tenement Italians. He has made a lot of records, mostly with his band Joan of Arc, and is now in his final semester of the SAIC MFAW FYI.
By Christopher Hudgens
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] download Kate Zambreno is an editor at Nightboat Books and a former senior editor of the Chicago alt-weekly, Newcity. Her reviews and essays have appeared in The Believer, Bookforum, Rain Taxi, and elsewhere. She keeps the literary blog Frances Farmer Is My Sister. Kate reads from her debut [...]
By Christopher Hudgens
The Parlor’s 2nd Annual Emerging Writer’s Festival Saturday, May 23, 4pm at The Green Lantern (1511 N. Milwaukee) Emerging Writers Festival Schedule 4:00 pm Sarah Terez Rosenblum – Where She Is 4:30 pm Jeanie Chung – Cuts and Folds 5:00 pm Peter Anderson – One Son Resists 5:30 – 5:45 BREAK 5: 45 pm J.D.K. [...]
By Christopher Hudgens
The Parlor Reading Series announces a call for emerging writers, as part of its Second Annual Summer Emerging Writer’s Festival. Please submit short works of fiction/non-fiction between 3,000 and 5,000 words to theparlorreads@gmail.com by Wednesday, March 18th 2009. Selected writers will be asked to read for a public audience on Saturday May 23, 2009 in [...]
By Christopher Hudgens
Summer is a time for sitting out in the sun with a good book. In honor of the warmer weather, we thought we’d share our intended Summer Reading Lists. Email us with your favorite summer reads at theparlorreads@gmail.com Terri’s Summer Reading: Weight, Jeannette Winterson Don Quixote, Cervantes History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault Religion without Belief, [...]