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Book Review: "The Village" by John Strausbaugh

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The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues -- A History of Greenwich Village
By John Str...

Book Review: "No Other" by Mark Gluth

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No Other
By Mark Gluth
Sator Press

So before anything else, please realize that I only got around a third of the w...

Book Review: "The Ghoul Archipelago" by Stephen Kozeniewski

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The Ghoul Archipelago
By Stephen Kozeniewski
Severed Press
Reviewed by Jason Pettus

I don't actually have a lot to...

Announcing the CCLaP 2015 publishing catalog

For the first time in CCLaP's history, I'm happy to say that we're now an entire year ahead in our publishing schedule, in terms of knowing which books in particular we'll be putting out; and that's letting us for the first time publish a traditional 2015 catalog for the general public, which you can download for free by clicking on this link. (Or to refer people online to this page in general, you can use the shortcut [bit.ly/cclapcatalog2015].) But I wanted to spell out everything in that P...

Book Review: "A Little Lumpen Novelita," by Roberto Bolaño

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A Little Lumpen Novelita
By Roberto Bolaño
New Directions
Reviewed by Chris Schahfer

I've been a fan of Roberto Bo...

Book Review: "No Land's Man" by Aasif Mandvi

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No Land's Man
By Aasif Mandvi
Chronicle Books

There's not a lot to say about Aasif Mandvi's short and sharp memoir...

The CCLaP train keeps rolling! Say hello to Stephen Moles' "Paul is Dead!"

It's been an insane 2015 so far for us here at CCLaP, as we have literally released a new original book every single week since the year first started, mostly as a way to catch up with the books from last Christmas that we didn't end up getting out; but now that our back titles are out of the way, I'm happy today to announce our first full-length book of the year, British author Stephen Moles' absurdist comedy Paul is Dead. As always, the book's synopsis does a better job at describing it tha...

CCLaP Podcast 124: "Chicago After Dark" University of Chicago Contributor Party

It's Monday Thursday, which means it's time for another episode of the CCLaP Podcast. Today, it's a special one-hour live recording from our recent Chicago After Dark contributor party on the University of Chicago campus, held in conjunction with campus literary magazine Memoryhouse. Recorded in December 2014 at the campus's Reynolds Club.

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Stalking the Behemoth: "the Brothers Karamazov," by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov
By Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1880
Reviewed by Chris Schahfer

A massive book, and not just because eight hundred pages, while not a patch on Proust, is fat. No, the Brothers Karamazov is full of huge ideas about how people operate, ideas of faith and society and cynicism and idealism and greed and selfishness. I mean, the criticism on this book, and just this book, mind, probably takes up more combined pages than the whole of Dostoevsky's oeuvre. There's a lot here, and that's bef...

Book Review: "The Fortress in Orion" by Mike Resnick

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The Fortress in Orion
By Mike Resnick
Pyr
Reviewed by Jason Pettus

One of the things I've come to realize about mys...