Feb
7
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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
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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 of the [...]
Dec
8
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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, and uncomfortable.” [...]
Nov
10
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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 has [...]
Oct
9
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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 Kennedy is [...]
Sep
4
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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 and poems [...]
Aug
2
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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 of appearance) are: [...]
Jun
8
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Joe Meno is a fiction writer and playwright that lives in Chicago.
A winner of the Nelson Algren Literary Award and the Society of Midland Author’s Fiction Prize, he is the author of four novels, The Boy Detective Fails (Akashic 2006,) Hairstyles of the Damned (Akashic 2004,) Tender as [...]
May
11
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Carol Anshaw is the author of the novels Aquamarine, Seven Moves, and Lucky in the Corner. Her books have won the Carl Sandburg Award, the Ferro-Grumley Award, and the Society of Midland Authors Award. Her stories have appeared in Story magazine, Tin House, The Best American Stories and, most [...]
Apr
12
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Gillian reads an excerpt from her new book Dark Places, a literary thriller about murder cults, Oklahoma tourist traps, the “Satanic Panic” of the 1980s, Missouri strip clubs, redheads and farming.
Gillian Flynn was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri and studied journalism at KU and Northwestern, where [...]
