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Book Review: "Women" by Chloe Caldwell

(CCLaP is dedicated to reviewing as many contemporary books as possible, including self-published volumes; click here to learn how to submit your own book for possible review, although be warned that it needs to have been published within the last 12 months to be considered. For the complete list of all books reviewed here, as well as the next books scheduled to be read, click here.) Women By Chloe Caldwell Short Flight/Long Drive Books Reviewed by Chris Schahfer When is it a romance novel a...

Rejoice! Ben Tanzer's collected "The New York Stories" is finally here!

I'm happy to say that CCLaP's newest book for 2015 is finally out today; and it just so happens to be a book a lot of us have been waiting for a whopping nine years now. That's right, it's the triumphant release of Ben Tanzer's The New York Stories: Three Volumes in One Edition! Don't know what I'm talking about? Check out the book's dust jacket synopsis for more... In 2006, celebrated author Ben Tanzer began working on a series of short stories all set in the fictional upstate New York town...

American Odd: "Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle," by Nancy Spector

Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle By Nancy Spector Guggenheim Museum Publications Review by Karl Wolff Over a decade ago I had the rare opportunity to see The Cremaster Cycle, a series of five interrelated films by Matthew Barney. The Cremaster Cycle included other material, everything from sketches, photographs, music, and sculpture. When I first saw the films, I marveled at their visionary power, epic scope, and esoteric symbolism. The Cremaster Cycle takes it name from the cremaster muscle...

The CCLaP Weekender for June 12th is here!

It's Friday, which means it's time for the newest issue of the Pushcart-Prize-nominated CCLaP Weekender! This week's issue features a new original piece of fiction by Tony Lindsay; a photography feature by Terry Suprean; and a look at the next seven days of literary events happening all across the city. The PDF is completely free to download, using the links below, or can be viewed online in its "flippable" form at Issuu.com (or just use the embedded version above, if your particular device...

Stalking the Behemoth: "Dhalgren," by Samuel R. Delany

Dhalgren By Samuel R. Delany, 1974 Reviewed by Chris Schahfer Samuel R. Delany has never quite had that same household name status as other sci-fi authors. Everyone knows Robert Heinlein and Philip K. Dick and Ursula K. Le Guinn, but not so much Delany. Yet he's still a big name in the right circles - he just made his fame with a different crowd. See, unless you count Gravity's Rainbow, Dhalgren is the first sci-fi book to find a spot in my "Stalking the Behemoth" series. Now, there's a reas...

The CCLaP Weekender for June 5th is here!

It's Friday, which means it's time for the newest issue of the Pushcart-Prize-nominated CCLaP Weekender! This week's issue features a new original piece of fiction by TJ Davis; a photography feature by Elina Ruka; and a look at the next seven days of literary events happening all across the city. The PDF is completely free to download, using the links below, or can be viewed online in its "flippable" form at Issuu.com (or just use the embedded version above, if your particular device is abl...

Book Review: "Conversations with Beethoven," by Sanford Friedman

(CCLaP is dedicated to reviewing as many contemporary books as possible, including self-published volumes; click here to learn how to submit your own book for possible review, although be warned that it needs to have been published within the last 12 months to be considered. For the complete list of all books reviewed here, as well as the next books scheduled to be read, click here.) Conversations with Beethoven By Sanford Friedman New York Review of Books Reviewed by Chris Schahfer You migh...

Book Review: "A Kingdom in Crisis," by Andrew MacGregor Marshall

(CCLaP is dedicated to reviewing as many contemporary books as possible, including self-published volumes; click here to learn how to submit your own book for possible review, although be warned that it needs to have been published within the last 18 months to be considered. For the complete list of all books reviewed here, as well as the next books scheduled to be read, click here.) A Kingdom in Crisis: Thailand's Struggle for Democracy in the Twenty-First Century By Andrew MacGregor Mars...

The CCLaP Weekender for May 29th is here!

It's Friday, which means it's time for the newest issue of the Pushcart-Prize-nominated CCLaP Weekender! This week's issue features a new original piece of fiction by Matt Rowan; a photography feature by Emily Esperanza; and a look at the next seven days of literary events happening all across the city. The PDF is completely free to download, using the links below, or can be viewed online in its "flippable" form at Issuu.com (or just use the embedded version above, if your particular device...

The CCLaP Weekender for May 22nd is here!

It's Friday, which means it's time for the newest issue of the Pushcart-Prize-nominated CCLaP Weekender! This week's issue features a new original piece of fiction by Tony Lindsay; a photography feature by Greg Reigh; and a look at the next seven days of literary events happening all across the city. The PDF is completely free to download, using the links below, or can be viewed online in its "flippable" form at Issuu.com (or just use the embedded version above, if your particular device is...