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The CCLaP Weekender for August 29th is here!

This week's edition of our new e-magazine, The CCLaP Weekender released every Friday morning, is now online for your free downloading pleasure. It features a new piece of original fiction by Mark Wagstaff; a photography feature highlighting the work of German artist Teimur Henrich; and our usual look at the upcoming week of Chicago literary events. Use the links below to access it right now.

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Another packed house at the CCLaP Showcase! And look who's featuring next month!

Well, it was another packed house last Tuesday for the August edition of our new reading series, the CCLaP Showcase, this time featuring local playwright Amber Hargroder. We've been humbled and grateful to see so many people coming out for this show, and I'm happy to say that it has convinced City Lit Books to give us an ongoing commitment now for the last Tuesday of each month there. I hope you'll have a chance to add the date to your calendar for the rest of the year (minus December, which...

Fernando Flores wins Honorable Mention (and 10,000 bucks) in this year's Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation Award!

We received some exciting news here at CCLaP headquarters this week -- author Fernando Flores has just won Honorable Mention in this year's Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation Award, for his novella Death to the Bullshit Artists of South Texas, Vol. 1, which comes with a neat little paycheck for $10,000! For those who don't know, this is the brainchild of the hugely popular and award-winning author Sandra Cisneros; named in honor of her father, it celebrates Texas artists who take a particu...

CCLaP Recommends: Victorian bad boys

(In preparation of opening a new money-making website soon on the subject of rare books, CCLaP has recently become an affiliate seller at eBay; so we will now be doing weekly recommendations of other interesting book sales taking place there besides just our own, grouped by an interesting theme or subject each week. Please be aware that when you click on one of these particular links and then maybe end up buying the book, CCLaP receives a percentage of that sale as a commission for recommendi...

Book Review: "Dungeons & Drag Queens," by MP Johnson

(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.)



Dungeons & Drag Queens
By MP Johnson
Eraserhead Press
Reviewed by Karl Wolff

Sleazella LaRuse wakes up cuffed an...

The CCLaP Weekender for August 22nd is here!

This week's edition of our new e-magazine, The CCLaP Weekender released every Friday morning, is now online for your free downloading pleasure. It features a new piece of original fiction by Joseph G. Peterson; a photography feature highlighting the work of Italian artist Elena Pezzetta; and our usual look at the upcoming week of Chicago literary events. Use the links below to access it right now.

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CCLaP Rare: "The Woman of Andros" by Thornton Wilder (1930), First Edition First Printing

(CCLaP is now selling rare and unusual books through the main website, shipped to customers through USPS Priority Mail and with full refunds always guaranteed. To see the latest full list of volumes for sale, please click here).

The Woman of Andros

By Thornton Wilder (1930)
First Edition, First Printing

DESCRIPTION: Born in the college town of Madison, Wisconsin, three-time Pulitzer winner Thornton Wilder is undoubtedly best remembered now for his summer-stock favorite Our Town, but this public i...

CCLaP Rare: "Passion Play" by Jerzy Kosinski (1979), First Edition First Printing

(CCLaP is now selling rare and unusual books through the main website, shipped to customers through USPS Priority Mail and with full refunds always guaranteed. To see the latest full list of volumes for sale, please click here).

Passion Play
By Jerzy Kosinski (1979)
First Edition, First Printing

DESCRIPTION: It's a bit of a miracle that author Jerzy Kosinski ever even made it to adulthood and an American literary career in the first place: a Polish Jew who survived World War Two because of fake I...

CCLaP Rare: "Sophie's Choice" by William Styron (1979), First Edition First Printing

(CCLaP is now selling rare and unusual books through the main website, shipped to customers through USPS Priority Mail and with full refunds always guaranteed. To see the latest full list of volumes for sale, please click here).

Sophie's Choice
By William Styron (1979)
First Edition, First Printing

DESCRIPTION: Is there any one author out there who better defines the intellectual tricks of Postmodernist literature more than William Styron? A born-and-bred Southerner whose grandparents had owned s...

The CCLaP Weekender for August 15th is here!

This week's edition of our new e-magazine, The CCLaP Weekender released every Friday morning, is now online for your free downloading pleasure. It features a new piece of original fiction by Matt Rowan; a photography feature highlighting the work of Chicago artist Matthew Thornton; and our usual look at the upcoming week of Chicago literary events. Use the links below to access it right now.

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