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CCLaP Rare: "Scribner's Magazine" Collected Vol. 1 (1871), #1-6, First Edition

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Scribner's Monthly, Collected Vol. 1 (1871)
Containing issues #1 through 6
First Edition

DESCRIPTION: Although it had been around in one form or another since 1842, it wasn't until 1870 that the legendary publisher Scribner's decided to get into the magazine game; inspire...

CCLaP Podcast 112: Author Bill Hillman

It's Monday Tuesday, which means it's time for another episode of the CCLaP Podcast. Today, it's a one-hour talk with local writer Bill Hillman: former gang member and drug dealer, past Golden Gloves boxing champion, a runner with the bulls in Spain every year, and now the author of the high-profile coming-of-age novel The Old Neighborhood. Also featuring the music of The Soft and Cults.

Links to the things and people mentioned in today's episode:
Bill Hillman
The Old Neighborhood
Edgewater, Chic...

The "CCLaP Weekender" for May 9th 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 fiction by local author Richard Thomas; a photography feature highlighting the work of Italian artist Riccardo Bandiera; and our usual look at the upcoming week of local literary events happening all across the city. Use the links below to access it right now.

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Book Review: "Revolutionary Russia, 1891 - 1991: A History," by Anthony Figes

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Revolutionary Russia, 1891 - 1991: A History
By Anthony Figes
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
Reviewed...

Say goodbye to the CCLaP Journal! Say hello to the CCLaP Weekender!

So first the bad news -- that after some serious soul-searching around here, we've been reluctantly forced to admit that we literally do not have enough hours in the day to continue trying to put out the full 200-page monthly magazine we've been trying to do around here, The CCLaP Journal, so we are unfortunately putting it on hiatus again for the second time in its history, for hopefully 2015 when we will have the staff and resources needed to start it up again and do it right next time. But...

Book Review: "A Taste for Intrigue: the Multiple Lives of Francois Mitterrand," by Philip Short

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A Taste for Intrigue: the Multiple Lives of Francois Mitterrand
By Philip Short
Henry Holt and Company
Reviewed...

CCLaP Rare: Nine John Irving novels, eight 1st editions/1st printings

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The Hotel New Hampshire (1981)
A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989), First Edition, First Printing
A Son of the Circus (1994), First Edition, First Printing
A Widow for One Year (1998), First Edition, First Printing
My Movie Business (1999), First Edition, First Printing
The Four...

CCLaP Podcast 111: Author Megan Stielstra

It's Monday, which means it's time for another episode of the CCLaP Podcast. Today, it's a 45-minute talk with Chicago writer Megan Stielstra, author of the award-winning essay collection Once I Was Cool. Also featuring the music of Banda Westfalica and Cub Sport.

Links to the things and people mentioned in today's episode:
Megan Stielstra
Once I Was Cool
Jiffy Mix headquarters
2nd Story
Elephant Rock Books
Best American Essays 2013
Banda Westfalica
Cub Sport

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Book Review: "Swing," by Miasha

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Swing
By Miasha
Infamous/Akashic
Reviewed by Karl Wolff

Tracing the lives of four couples who frequent the Atlan...

CCLaP Rare: "Love-Songs of Childhood" (1894), by Eugene Field, First Edition First Printing

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Love-Songs of Childhood (1894)
By Eugene Field
First Edition, First Printing

DESCRIPTION: It's a shame that those writers who primarily get known through short ephemeral work (stories in magazines, columns in newspapers, slam poems at open mics) are so quickly destined to...