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		<title>Episode 34: Big Other FC2 Reading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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” (Lawrence and Gibson) and the story collection [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 33: Anna Jarzab</title>
		<description><![CDATA[download Anna Jarzab grew up entirely in the suburbs, first outside of Chicago and then in San Francisco&#8217;s East Bay area, where All Unquiet Things is set. She graduated from Santa Clara University, earned her Master&#8217;s degree from the University of Chicago, and currently lives in New York City.  All Unquiet Things is her first book.]]></description>
		<link>http://theparlorreads.com/2010/episode-33-anna-jarzab/</link>
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		<title>Episode 32: Robert K Elder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[download Robert K. Elder is a journalist, author, film columnist and regional editor for AOL&#8217;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 the Chicago Tribune. His work has appeared [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theparlorreads.com/2010/episode-32-robert-k-elder/</link>
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		<title>Episode 31: Tim Kinsella</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		<link>http://theparlorreads.com/2010/episode-31-tim-kinsella/</link>
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		<title>Episode 30: Kate Zambreno</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 novella O Fallen Angel (Chiasmus Press), a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theparlorreads.com/2010/episode-30-kate-zambreno/</link>
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		<title>Episode 29: Sara Levine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[download Sara Levine&#8217;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. Once upon a time she wrested a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theparlorreads.com/2010/episode-29-sara-levine/</link>
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		<title>Episode 28: The Laboratory for the Development of Substitute Materials</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 of the LDSM first collaborated on Impossible [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theparlorreads.com/2010/episode-28-the-laboratory-for-the-development-of-substitute-materials/</link>
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		<title>Episode 27: Kyle Beachy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[download Kyle Beachy&#8217;s first novel, The Slide, won the Chicago Reader&#8217;s 2009 &#8220;Readers&#8217; Choice&#8221; award for Best Book by a Chicago Author in the Last Year. The Boston Globe called the novel, &#8220;an unusual, and unusually good coming-of-age-story,&#8221; and Publishers Weekly described it as, &#8220;At once hilarious, strange, and uncomfortable.&#8221; His short fiction and essays [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theparlorreads.com/2009/episode-27-kyle-beachy/</link>
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		<title>Episode: 26 Jac Jemc</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theparlorreads.com/2009/episode-26-jac-jemc/</link>
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		<title>Episode 25: James Kennedy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[download Here James reads from his work-in-progress &#8220;The Magnificent Moots,&#8221; which he describes as a combination of &#8220;The Hitch-hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,&#8221; &#8220;A Wrinkle In Time,&#8221; Orson Scott Card’s &#8220;Ender’s Game,&#8221; the movie &#8220;The Royal Tennenbaums,&#8221; and the 1970s-1980s TV show Battle of the Network Stars. James Kennedy is the author of The Order [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theparlorreads.com/2009/episode-25-james-kennedy/</link>
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