January 2012
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EAR EATER #13: AWP EDITION ...
HELLO DARLINGS!
EAR EATER is hosting a reading for AWP 2012 and damn is it a good one!
EAR EATER #13 presents: AWP EDITION (THE IMPOSSIBLE, THE EXTRAORDINARY)
Amelia Gray: (Author of AM/PM (Featherproof Books) and Museum of the Weird (FC2). Her first novel, THREATS, is due March 2012 from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.)
Vanessa Place: (Writer, lawyer, and co-director of Les Figues...
EAR EATER #12: External Viscera
Please join us for the twelfth installment of EAR EATER. External Viscera is about exposing the guts of form by using the interiority of language and the textual through performative means of communication on the page, and in real time.
Saturday, January 28th, 8 - 11PM
CATHOUSE
5513 S. Cornell Ave. Apt. #2 (just ring the bell!)
Chicago, IL 60637
Coming to you in the flesh,...
November 2011
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EAR EATER #11: ALTER-REALITY
On Monday (Nov. 14th), we’re hosting a reading as a part of the week-long event, Preface, leading up to the Chicago Book Expo next weekend.
Uptown Lounge (Lawrence stop, Red Line)
1136 w. Lawrence
8pm door and words! Readers for the night include:
Sara Levine (author of TREASURE ISLAND!!! and Short Dark Oracles)
Adam Jameson (author of Amazing Adult Fantasy and Giant...
October 2011
1 post
EAR EATER #10: SEEMS BLEAK: MUUMUU HOUSE EDITION,...
Based in either the interest or disinterest of the everyday, boredom, or general feelings of “bleakness” towards life, EAR EATER #10 features writers associated with and published by Muumuu House Press, created by Tao Lin in 2008.
The style and the press go hang in hand as, ”[t]hose interested in Muumuu House are encouraged to communicate with people involved with Muumuu House...
August 2011
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EAR EATER #9: BERKSHIRES EDITION (CANCELED DUE TO...
The following readers are brought together in the spirit of proximity through either happenstance of living in Western Massachusetts or by nature of travel, and will join us for an evening of reading in Bureau for Open Culture’s space in Building 8 on MASS MoCA’s campus.
1040 MASS MoCA Way
North Adams, MA 01247
8 - 11 pm
All of this edition’s EAR EATERS are fresh...
July 2011
1 post
EAR EATER #8 SCAFFOLD RELEASE
Our eighth installment of Ear Eater is co-curated with the lovely Bailey Romaine! She is very pleased to announce the release of Scaffold - a Chicago based independent literary publication edited by Kellyn Lappinga and Bailey Romaine herself. The issue features work by writers and artists from across the country.
Scaffold, n. 1: a temporary or movable platform for workers (as bricklayers,...
June 2011
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EAR EATER #7: We Miss You Cassandra!
Join us for the 7th installment of EAR EATER!!! Co-curater Cassandra Troyan, will hopefully be joining us virtually for the evening! We miss her very much here at Parasite Lost so let’s Ustream her lots of digital love on our video phone. Expect good eats and oratory awesomeness!
EAR EATER #7: Friday, June 24th, 8-11PM
Here is just a taste of the tantalizing entertainment for the...
May 2011
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EAR EATER #6: "Oh hey, it's you again"
The lovely readers of EAR EATER #6 explore the matter of fact, frankness of the everyday without ever leaning towards the dry side or hyperbole, but use such ordinary ephemera to highlight something closer to the extraordinary mundane.
EAR EATER #6: Saturday, May 28th 8-11PM
Frank Hinton
Meghan Lamb
Heather Palmer
Timothy Willis Sander
Andrew James Weatherhead
PARASITE LOST is...
March 2011
1 post
EAR EATER #5: Longing in Discrete Corners
This session is based on the use of abstraction in language, and how the desire to enunciate, or to speak through desire, works in hypnotic ways.
Come be mesmerized and disoriented and enthralled by the readers at
EAR EATER #5: Saturday, April 30th 8-11PM
Ken Baumann
Brett Gallagher
Devin King Listen to Devin King’s performance with Odd Sympathy, here!
Carrie Lorig
Bailey Romaine
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