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Book Review: "The Antidote" by Oliver Burkeman

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The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
By Oliver Burkeman
Faber and Faber
Reviewed b...

Book Review: "Praying Drunk," Kyle Minor

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Praying Drunk
By Kyle Minor
Curbside Splendor Publishing
Reviewed by Chris Schahfer

You've got to hand it to an aut...

Book Review: "The Lycan Hunter" by Kelsey Jordan

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The Lycan Hunter
By Kelsey Jordan
Booktrope Editions
Reviewed by Jason Pettus

When you review as many self-publishe...

Stalking the Behemoth: "Ulysses," by James Joyce

Ulysses
By James Joyce, 1922
Reviewed by Chris Schahfer

A theory for you: there's not a Joyce fan alive who loves every chapter of Ulysses. You'd have to either be an insane frothing-at-the-mouth James Joyce freak who worships every word the man writes or have the broadest literary tastes ever to do so, since every chapter is famously written in a radically different style. It's mainly known for stream-of-consciousness, but that technique only enters in a few chapters and is more fully explored...

An Introduction to American Odd

A look at peculiar institutions, oddball literary experiments, and reckless rugged individualists. A celebration of American non-conformity.




America, by which I mean the United States, has been called a lot of things: a laboratory of democracy, a city upon a hill, and the land of opportunity. This nation has also produced a lot of odd stuff. Inspired in part by the literary blog ireadoddbooks.com and Michel Foucault, this essay series seeks to explore the stranger intellectual crevices of this...

Book Review: "Rare" by Keith Veronese

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Rare: The High-Stakes Race to Satisfy Our Need for the Scarcest Metals on Earth
By Keith Veronese
Prometheus Book...

Book Review: "Einstein's Beach House" by Jacob M. Appel

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Einstein's Beach House
By Jacob M. Appel
Pressgang
Reviewed by Jason Pettus

I always have trouble doing analytical...

CCLaP's newest book, Matt Fuchs' "Rise of Hypnodrome," is now available!

Wow, only mid-February and CCLaP already has its fourth original book of the year to announce! In this case it's Baltimore-area writer Matt Fuchs' wonderfully smart and dark science-fiction novella Rise of Hypnodrome, which we've been sending out to early reviewers for several months now but is finally becoming available to the general public starting today. As always, the book's synopsis can do a better job at explaining than I can here off the top of my head, so let me just paste it in belo...

Book Review: "Dark Matter Tiding" by Chance Maree

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Dark Matter Tiding
By Chance Maree
Self-published
Reviewed by Jason Pettus

Chance Maree's Dark Matter Tiding is a p...

Book Review: "Bark: Stories," by Lorrie Moore

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Bark: Stories
Lorrie Moore
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Reviewed by Chris Schahfer

Well, I suppose this was going to happe...