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Check out CCLaP's newest book, Karl Wolff's "The NSFW Files!"

It's busy days around here at CCLaP, as we not only start up our new monthly schedule of new books for 2015, but are also squeezing out two books from 2014 that we weren't able to get out in time for the holidays; and today I'm happy to announce the second of those delayed books, Karl Wolff's essay collection The NSFW Files. If this title already rings a bell, it's because Karl's actually one of the staff writers here at the blog, and this essay series has been running here once a month over...

Book review: "Citizen: An American Lyric," Claudia Rankine

(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.)



Citizen: An American Lyric
By Claudia Rankine
Graywolf Press
Reviewed by Chris Schahfer

Reviewing this is a change...

Book Review: "Victims" by Travis Jeppesen

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Victims
By Travis Jeppesen
ITNA Press
Reviewed by Jason Pettus

I saw in its introduction that Travis Jeppesen's Vic...

CCLaP's newest book, Ben Tanzer's "After the Flood," is now available!

Happy 2015! Now that the new year is upon us, CCLaP is back to the same aggressive publishing schedule as we had last year, mostly because we keep getting sent so many great books and want to have the chance to share them all with you; this means not only a new title every single month this year, but in fact four new books just in the next five weeks, in that two of them are holdovers from last year that we simply ran out of time to get out during the holidays. Today is the kickoff of the ver...

Book Review: "Vixens, Vamps & Vipers," by Mike Madrid

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Vixens, Vamps & Vipers: Lost Villainesses of Golden Age Comics
Compiled and annotated by Mike Madrid
Exterminat...

Book Review: "Dissonance," by Lisa Lenard-Cook

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Dissonance
By Lisa Lenard-Cook
Santa Fe Writer's Project
Reviewed by Jason Pettus

I've discussed here before the in...

Book Review: "Pepperpot: Best New Stories from the Caribbean"

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Pepperpot: Best New Stories from the Caribbean
Peepal Tree Press / Akashic Books
Reviewed by Jason Pettus

I have t...

Book Review: "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage," by Haruki Murakami

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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
By Haruki Murakmi
Alfred A. Knopf
Reviewed by Jason Pettus

Th...

Stalking the Behemoth: Moby-Dick; or, the Whale

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Moby-Dick; or, the Whale
By Herman Melville (1851)
Reviewed by Chris Schahfer

Pop culture is a strange and fascinating beast, but like many of its ilk, it's easy to hate. Now, I could never stay mad at it, but there's a little bit of me that groans every time I turn on the TV (which isn't often, but sometimes it can't be avoided) or sit down at the movies (much better than TV) and hear Moby-Dick referred to as a boring book a character read in high school. Early reviewers who savaged Herman Melv...

Book Review: "Let Go and Go On and On," Tim Kinsella

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Let Go and Go On and On
By Tim Kinsella
Curbside Splendour
Reviewed by Chris Schahfer

I think it's natural for crea...