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		<title>Episode 38: Adam Levin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[download Due to a technical problem, this episode of The Parlor has no Question and Answer period. Bummer. Adam Levin’s stories have appeared in Tin House, McSweeney’s, and Esquire. Winner of the 2003 Tin House/ Summer Literary Seminars Fiction Contest and the 2004 Joyce Carol Oates Fiction Prize, Levin holds an MA in Clinical Social [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 37: Lindsay Hunter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[download Lindsay Hunter lives in Chicago and co-hosts the flash fiction reading series, Quickies! Her slim fiction collection, Daddy’s, has just been published by featherproof books. Find her at lindsayhunter.com.]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 36: Cris Mazza</title>
		<description><![CDATA[download Cris Mazza is the author of over a dozen books, including Various Men Who Knew Us as Girls, which will be released in 2011. A native of Southern California, she relocated to Illinois when she began teaching in the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She lives 50 miles west of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 35: Gina Frangello</title>
		<description><![CDATA[download Gina Frangello is the author of a short story collection, Slut Lullabies, and a novel, My Sister’s Continent. She served for 10 years as the Editor of the award-winning literary magazine, Other Voices, and in 2005 co-founded its book imprint, Other Voices Books, where she is the current Executive Editor. Additionally, she is co-editor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 34: Associated Writing Programs Conference (AWP)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[download This month we have something special&#8211;an on the scenes report from the AWP conference. Our own Caroline Picard introduces us to some small presses who work tirelessly to bring us the best of independent writing. She also talks to the masterminds behind two Chicago-based reading series, The Dollar Store and Quickies.]]></description>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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