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		<title>Episode 30: Kate Zambreno</title>
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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 triptych of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theparlorreads.com/2010/episode-30-kate-zambreno/</link>
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		<title>Episode 29: Sara Levine</title>
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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 [...]]]></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>
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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 LDSM first collaborated on Impossible Cities: [...]]]></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>
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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>
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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 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>
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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 of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theparlorreads.com/2009/episode-25-james-kennedy/</link>
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		<title>Episode 24: Brendan Short</title>
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Brendan Short is the author of &#8220;Dream City,&#8221; which has been called &#8220;powerful&#8221; (Chicago magazine) and &#8220;complex and compelling&#8230;highly recommended&#8221; (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 have appeared in several literary journals, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theparlorreads.com/2009/episode-24-brendan-short/</link>
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		<title>Episode 19-23:Emerging Writer&#8217;s Festival 2009</title>
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This episode features the 2009 winners of The Parlor&#8217;s second annual Emerging Writer&#8217;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&#8217;s winners.
This year&#8217;s writers (in order of appearance) are: Sarah Terez Rosenblum, Jeanie Chung, Peter [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theparlorreads.com/2009/episode-19-23emerging-writers-festival-2009/</link>
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		<title>Episode 18: Joe Meno</title>
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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 Hellfire (St. Martin’s 1999), and How [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theparlorreads.com/2009/episode-18-joe-meno/</link>
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		<title>The Parlor&#8217;s 2nd Annual Emerging Writer&#8217;s Festival</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Parlor&#8217;s 2nd Annual Emerging Writer&#8217;s Festival
Saturday, May 23, 4pm at The Green Lantern (1511 N. Milwaukee)
Emerging Writers Festival Schedule
4:00 pm Sarah Terez Rosenblum  &#8211; Where She Is
4:30 pm Jeanie Chung – Cuts and Folds
5:00 pm Peter Anderson – One Son Resists
5:30 – 5:45 BREAK
5: 45 pm J.D.K. Goodman – Another Place, Another Time
6:15 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theparlorreads.com/2009/the-parlors-2nd-annual-emerging-writers-festival/</link>
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