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Book Review: "Cries of the Lost," by Chris Knopf

(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.)



Cries of the Lost
By Chris Knopf
The Permanent Press
Reviewed by Karl Wolff

When you marry someone, it is assume...

All Who Wander: "Love-Shaped Story" by Tommaso Pincio

(Throughout 2014, CCLaP cultural essayist Madeleine Maccar is looking at the classic definition of the "hero's journey," as seen through a series of international texts that she is reading in English translation. For all the essays in this series, please click here.)



Love-Shaped Story
By Tommaso Pincio
Flamingo
Review by Madeleine Maccar

A coming-of-age tale, like every other journey at its core, is a journey to death. It might exist outside the story's scope and well beyond the hero's happy endin...

Book Review: "Everyday Book Marketing," by Midge Raymond

(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.)



Everyday Book Marketing: Promotion ideas to fit your regularly scheduled life
By Midge Raymond
Ashland Creek Pr...

CCLaP Photo Feature: Roxane Decremer

This week's photographer feature at CCLaP highlights the work of Brussels artist Roxane Decremer. You can click here for the free 20-page PDF, or click here instead to view the online "flippable" version at Issuu.com (or just use the embedded version above, if you're seeing it). For all our past features, please visit [cclapcenter.com/features], and to let us know of your own work, simply drop us a line at cclapcenter [at] gmail.com.

"Humboldt: The Annotated Edition" is finally here! Free download for obsessive nerds!

Well, it's a couple of weeks late, but I'm happy to say that the annotated version of Scott Navicky's February novel with CCLaP, the intellectual absurdist comedy Humboldt: Or, The Power of Positive Thinking, is finally online for your free downloading pleasure. As those who have read this surprise hit already know, this book is not just a funny romp through the most pretentious environments the US has to offer, it's also a cornucopia of insider references and sly jokes to the books, musician...

The King in Yellow: CCLaP's new introduction

As part of the promotion for CCLaP's new re-release of the 1895 horror collection The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers, I thought I'd post here at the blog the new scholarly introduction I wrote for this edition. Find it in its entirety below.

It's the hit HBO show from the 21st century, True Detective, that has brought Robert W. Chambers' 1895 book of "weird" stories back into the mainstream public eye for the first time in 120 years; but those in the know have been aware of The King in Y...

Surprise! Meet CCLaP's unannounced new book, a re-release of "The King in Yellow!"

Surprise! CCLaP just released an unannounced new book! And that's because this project came about really quickly, ever since I became a fan literally about a month ago of the big cult hit for HBO, True Detective. I mean, you were watching True Detective too, right? 11 million of us officially were, which when you add BitTorrenters was more like 15 million; and when I discovered online that the complicated mythos behind the Satanic serial killers of that show was based on an obscure but real 1...

Book Review: "Report from the Interior" by Paul Auster

(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 12 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.)



Report from the Interior
By Paul Auster
Henry Holt and Co.
Reviewed by Madeleine Maccar

I've not read anything by P...

Book Review: "Women's Suffrage Memorabilia," by Kenneth Florey

(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.)



Women's Suffrage Memorabilia: an Illustrated Historical Study
By Kenneth Florey
McFarland
Reviewed by Karl Wolff...

CCLaP Photo Feature: Polina Poludkina

This week's photographer feature from CCLaP highlights the work of Moscow artist Polina Poludkina. You can click here to download the free 20-page PDF, or visit here for the online "flippable" version at Issuu.com (or just use the embedded version above if you're seeing it). For all our past features, please visit [cclapcenter.com/features], or to let us know of your own work, just drop us a line at cclapcenter [at] gmail.com.