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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 [...]
Jun
8
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] download 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,) [...]
May
11
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] download 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 [...]
Apr
12
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] download 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 [...]
Mar
20
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] download Terri Kapsalis is a writer, performer, and cultural critic whose work appears in such publications as Short Fiction, Denver Quarterly, Parakeet, The Baffler, New Formations and Public. She is the author of The Hysterical Alphabet (WhiteWalls) and Public Privates: Performing Gynecology from Both Ends of the Speculum [...]
Jan
13
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] download Zach Dodson’s hybrid typo/graphic novel, boring boring boring boring boring boring boring, came out last year under the nom de plume Zach Plague. He has launched such experiments as Featherproof Books, Bleached Whale Design, and The Show N’ Tell Time Talk Show. His writing has appeared in [...]
Dec
9
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] download Isaiah Dufort is a San Francisco based playwright and screenwriter. His plays include Absolute Pure Happiness, produced by Three Wise Monkeys Theater Company in San Francisco, and The Pheasant, winner of The Little Theater of Alexandria 2007 National One-Act Competition. His films include Silent Anna, directed by [...]
Nov
16
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] download Born in the town of Winner, South Dakota, Anne Elizabeth Moore was first published at the age of 15, when a national youth literary magazine printed a poem about her feelings. In the two decades since, Moore’s work has been published in The Onion, the Chicago Reader, [...]
