Join us for the world premiere of The Rebirth of Harley Clarke: An Audio Story by Suzanne Clores

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When Suzanne Clores heard that Audrey Niffeneger had plans to renovate the Harley Clarke Mansion into the Artists Book House, an audio project began to take shape in her mind: lakefront wind, echoing footsteps. After nearly 100 years of existence and three strange layers of stewardship, the Harley Clarke mansion evoked many emotions upon walkthrough for Clores: awe, wonder and most overwhelmingly, unease. This glorious estate, once electrified with vision, promise, and art, felt dead; filled with rubble but also raw possibility. A social and cultural miracle could bring it back to life. Clores thought. She hopes an Extraordinary Project podcast episode about the Harley Clarke House’s rebirth can be part of that miracle.

Suzanne Clores is a memoirist and podcast producer. Her book, Memoirs of a Spiritual Outsider (Conari, 2000) is a personal quest to experience alternative spiritual practices from around the world, and her 2021 Webby Award Honored podcast, The Extraordinary Project, is a docu-style podcast about our attraction to and questions about extraordinary phenomena. Her work has appeared in Salon, Elle, The Rumpus, and her essays have aired on Chicago Public Radio (WBEZ). She has recently been awarded an Illinois Arts Council Literary Prize and an Individual Artist Support grant for her essays and audio work. She has been a resident at the Vermont Studio Center, The Ragdale Foundation, and The Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. Her BA is from Columbia University in New York, and her MFA in fiction is from the University of Arizona. She lives in Evanston, Illinois with her family.