false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1225124222m/5278149.jpg 5278149 1 (Not available at Amazon! Not for sale in bookstores! Find "Repetition Patterns" exclusively [and for free if you want] at http://www.cclapcenter.com/patterns/ .) Dysfunctional suburbs. Dark thoughts. Crumbling relationships. Or in other words, just another day in the twisted world of author Ben Tanzer. In the experimental "Repetition Patterns," this two-time Chicago novelist creates his own fictional small town full of secrets and despair, with results that are partly Sherwood Anderson, partly Sam Shepard, and with a fair dose of Chuck Klosterman thrown in for good measure. A "pay what you want" eBook experiment in the style of Radiohead, the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography is proud to announce this as the organization's first-ever original title; new fans are bound to love the seedy pop-culture-laced style Tanzer brings to all his work, while existing fans are sure to see this as a new high point in a suddenly explosive career. 5345533 27 10 2008 Repetition Patterns total:11|5:7|4:1|3:3| 11 48 71 6 5 4 false false Mon Oct 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 27 09:17:27 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 27 09:19:39 -0700 2008 Why I signed Repetition Patterns.
An Apologia by Jason Pettus -- Goodreads member, CCLaP owner, and editor of this book

So before anything else, let me confess this: that even from the beginning, I have been predisposed against signing any story collections to CCLaP's new publishing pro...more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Nov 05 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Oct 27 12:17:22 -0700 2008 Wed Nov 05 09:43:12 -0800 2008 Repetition Patterns, a forty-page eBook that could be his best work yet. The stories are delivered from a first person point of view--except for "Life As He Had Known It"--and I liked the narrator of each. Similar to what I said about Tanzer's debut Lucky Man (Man...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jul 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 29 22:54:08 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 00:37:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Dec 18 12:55:44 -0800 2008 Mon Sep 07 22:17:51 -0700 2009 5 1 false false Wed Jun 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 02 12:20:43 -0800 2008 Wed Jun 24 07:54:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Oct 27 09:31:30 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 27 09:31:48 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sat Oct 10 12:06:54 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 12:06:54 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Sep 23 20:12:42 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 20:12:42 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Sep 15 10:51:43 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 10:51:43 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Sep 08 13:43:26 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 13:43:26 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Jul 05 01:03:38 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 01:03:38 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed May 27 23:37:53 -0700 2009 Wed May 27 23:37:53 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue May 26 15:28:16 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 15:28:16 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon May 25 20:12:33 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 20:12:33 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu May 07 16:24:36 -0700 2009 Thu May 07 16:24:36 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue May 05 08:55:10 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 08:55:10 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Apr 25 21:10:16 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 25 21:10:16 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Apr 08 20:12:03 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 20:12:03 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Mar 24 15:06:45 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 15:06:45 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Mar 02 16:05:07 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 02 16:05:07 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=5278149