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Jun
24
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] download This month’s Parlor is one bad-ass lineup of FC2 authors, a few of which have appeared previously on The Parlor. Here they are, in order of appearance: A D JAMESON is a writer, video artist, teacher, and performer. He is the author of the novel “Giant Slugs” [...]
Jun
10
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] download Anna Jarzab grew up entirely in the suburbs, first outside of Chicago and then in San Francisco’s East Bay area, where All Unquiet Things is set. She graduated from Santa Clara University, earned her Master’s degree from the University of Chicago, and currently lives in New York City. All [...]
May
13
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] download Robert K. Elder is a journalist, author, film columnist and regional editor for AOL’s Patch.com. Pulitzer-winner Studs Terkel calls Elder “a journalist in the noblest tradition” in his introduction to Elder’s book, “Last Words of the Executed.” For almost a decade, he served as a staff writer at [...]
Feb
7
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] download Sara Levine’s writing has appeared in Nerve, The Iowa Review, Puerto del Sol, Caketrain, Necessary Fiction, Brain, Child, The Fairy Tale Review, and other magazines. Her essays can be found in The Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: 1970 to the Present and A Best of Fence. [...]
Jan
7
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] download The Laboratory for the Development of Substitute Materials (LDSM) is a diverse collective of theatre artists with backgrounds in performance, literary, and visual arts, individually working in a range of performance traditions with such Chicago companies as Redmoon Theater, 500 Clown, CollaborAction, and the Neo-Futurists. The members [...]
Dec
8
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] download Kyle Beachy’s first novel, The Slide, won the Chicago Reader’s 2009 “Readers’ Choice” award for Best Book by a Chicago Author in the Last Year. The Boston Globe called the novel, “an unusual, and unusually good coming-of-age-story,” and Publishers Weekly described it as, “At once hilarious, strange, [...]
Nov
10
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] download Jac Jemc sells books, makes monsters, and writes fiction, poetry, and the occasional review. She’s not normally a fan of the Oxford comma, but she’s gonna leave that one where it lays. Her first novel, My Only Wife, is forthcoming from Dzanc Books in 2012. Jac’s writing [...]
Oct
9
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] download Here James reads from his work-in-progress “The Magnificent Moots,” which he describes as a combination of “The Hitch-hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” “A Wrinkle In Time,” Orson Scott Card’s “Ender’s Game,” the movie “The Royal Tennenbaums,” and the 1970s-1980s TV show Battle of the Network Stars. James [...]
Sep
4
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] download Brendan Short is the author of “Dream City,” which has been called “powerful” (Chicago magazine) and “complex and compelling…highly recommended” (Library Journal). He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the James A. Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas. His stories [...]
Aug
2
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] download This episode features the 2009 winners of The Parlor’s second annual Emerging Writer’s Festival. The Festival was a great success this year. Great readers, great audience, followed by an equally great barbecue. We at The Parlor are excited by this year’s winners. This year’s writers (in order [...]
