More recently, he is the author of the plays Half Steps and The Answering Machine, both seen in the New Play Festival at the Metropolis Centre for the Performing Arts in Arlington Heights, Illinois, and he is a semi-regular in the Playwright’s Workshop at Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago. Has reporting and criticism have appeared in Newcity, in promotional materials for the Chicago International Film Festival, and in the alumni magazine at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, where he currently works as a marketing manager.

He has appeared as an extra in the feature film Proof and participated in Lauren Berlant’s documentary film project I Think About Iraq Every Day. He holds a BA in English and an MA in the humanities, both from the University of Chicago, where his story “Stages” appeared in the chapbook Don’t Cry For Me, Academia, for which he suggested the title.

Julia teaches fiction writing workshops at Columbia College and is a co-founder of (and regular reader at) Reading Under the Influence.

Her work has been part of 2007’s Second Story, Manual Labor Gallery, the Printers Row Book Fair, Around the Coyote Gallery’s Re:Action reading series, Kate the Great’s Book Emporium, the Tamale Hut Reading Series, No Touching Magazine’s “United Colors of Non-Fiction” and other events and venues.
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Ashley Murray is a freelance magazine writer and full-time middle school tutor. She teaches children ages ten to fourteen in a wide variety of subjects, including everything from fifth grade social studies to eighth grade Algebra. She holds an MFA from Columbia University and is currently involved in the terrifying process of completing her first collection of short stories.

On May 24, 2008 The Parlor hosted its first annual Emerging Writer’s Festival. From a national pool of applicants, six writers were chosen. Needless to say, it was an amazing event. One of these writers will return for his or her own episode of The Parlor.

This episode of The Parlor is presented in two parts:
Part 1 contains A.D. Jameson, Anthony Ruth and Laura Zinn Fromm.
Part 2 contains Jennifer Kikoler, Julia Borcherts and Ashley Murray.

Direct download: EmergingWritersPart2.mp3

On May 24, 2008 The Parlor hosted its first annual Emerging Writer’s Festival. From a national pool of applicants, six writers were chosen. Needless to say, it was an amazing event. One of these writers will return for his or her own episode of The Parlor.

This episode of The Parlor is presented in two parts:
Part 1 contains A.D. Jameson, Anthony Ruth and Laura Zinn Fromm.
Part 2 contains Jennifer Kikoler, Julia Borcherts and Ashley Murray.

Part 2 will post in one week.

Direct download: EmergingWritersPart1.mp3

Terri’s Summer Reading:
Weight, Jeannette Winterson
Don Quixote, Cervantes
History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault
Religion without Belief, Jean Petrolle
Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon
Secret of Scent, Luca Turin
The Elementary Particles, Michel Houellebecq

Caroline’s Summer Reading:
Halls of Fame, John D’Agata
The Vagabond, Collette
The Illiad, Homer (Richard Lattimore translation)
Three Tales, Gustav Flaubert
What You Call Winter, Nalini Jones
Ritual and Spontaneity in the Psychoanalytic Process: A
Dialectical-Constructivist View, Irwin Z. Hoffman
Somebody in Boots, Nelson Algren
Live Girls, Beth Nugent
The Monk, Matthew Lewis
The Shaman from Elko, Edited by Garth Hill

Joanna’s Summer Reading:
Someone to Run With, David Grossman
The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story, Diane Ackerman
Joe College/The Abstinence Teacher, Tom Perrotta
Audition, Barbara Walters (I can’t help it, I’m curious)
The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson
When You Are Engulfed in Flames, David Sedaris
My Name Is Red, Orhan Pamuk
Run, Ann Patchett
The Luxe, Anna Godbersen
Breaking Dawn, Stephenie Meyer

His work has appeared in various online and print publications including the Story Week Reader, Reservoir magazine, and the Santa Clara Review. He also co-publishes the Atlanta-based APlusPlus magazine with four other members of Morningside Elementary’s storied class of ‘92.

He is currently at work on his debut story collection as well as a memoir, Maybe the Waves. He hopes it will become increasingly strange that you haven’t read his work in the coming decade.
Direct download: JamesLower.mp3

Then this schedule below:

5pm- A.D. Jameson - Five from Amazing Adult Fantasy

5:30 - Anthony Ruth – Stages

6pm - Laura Zinn Fromm - Sunlight All Over

6:30 - Jennifer Kikoler – Stuffed

7pm- Julia Borcherts - Untitled

7:30 - Ashley Murray - Anatomy of Birds

All readings take place at The Green Lantern 1511 N. Milwaukee Ave, 2nd Floor
(www.thegreenlantern.org)

For more information, please visit www.theparlorreads.com or contact theparlorreads@gmail.com

Also, don’t forget to download The Parlor’s first three episodes, featuring to Jonathan Messinger reading from his novel-in-progress Take Your Own Advice, Ben Tanzer reading from his novel Lucky Man and Amina Cain reading a selection of short stories including “I Go To Some Hollow,” from her forthcoming collection.

Visit www.theparlorreads.com today!

She co-curates, along with Jennifer Karmin, the Red Rover reading series, and teaches in the English department at Columbia College.

Direct download: AminaCain.mp3