The NSFW Files: The Image, by Jean de Berg
This week in my ongoing essay series, I take a look at The Image, by Jean de Berg, a work of minimalist eroticism. Continue reading The NSFW Files: The Image, by Jean de Berg
This week in my ongoing essay series, I take a look at The Image, by Jean de Berg, a work of minimalist eroticism. Continue reading The NSFW Files: The Image, by Jean de Berg
Part psychogeography, part hallucination, part body horror, and part vision quest, Sloughing Off the Rot is not for the squeamish, easily disgusted, or overly serious. This is bizarro literature as fine art. Continue reading CCLaP Fridays: Sloughing Off the Rot, by Lance Carbuncle
My new book, “On Being Human,” has been published (in both ebook and handmade hardcover versions) by the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography. You should go out and buy a copy right now! Continue reading CCLaP: “On Being Human,” by Karl Wolff, on sale now!
This week Karl Wolff reviews “Fighting for an American Countryside” by Jennifer Vogel, an in-depth look at the economic, political, and cultural challenges facing rural Minnesota in a world ravaged by the Great Recession. Continue reading CCLaP Fridays: Fighting for an American Countryside, by Jennifer Vogel
Last week I reviewed “Sweet Thunder,” by Ivan Doig, about a newspaperman doing battle with a colossal mining company in Butte, Montana and details on my upcoming book of essays, “On Being Human.” Continue reading CCLaP: “Sweet Thunder” by Ivan Doig and the upcoming release of “On Being Human,” by Karl Wolff
In this interview, I talk with Ivan Goldman about our damaged and corrupt justice system, media scaremongering, and those annoying (and seemingly omnipotent) Koch brothers. Continue reading The Ivan G. Goldman Interview
This week at CCLaP Karl Wolff reviews, “The Early Parking Garages of San Francisco,” by Mark D. Kessler, an obscure topic that may reward a specialized type of reader. Continue reading CCLaP Fridays: The Early Parking Garages of San Francisco, by Mark D. Kessler
In this installment of The Megapolitan Flaneur, I get a crash course in bookbinding from Jason Pettus, founder of CCLaP. Continue reading The Megapolitan Flaneur, Part 2: Making and Meaning
This week at CCLaP I review “In Thunder Forged: Iron Kingdom Chronicles (The Fall of Llael: Book One),” by Ari Marmell, an exciting RPG tie-in novel full of intrigue, set-piece battles, and steampunk mecha. Continue reading CCLaP Fridays: In Thunder Forged: Iron Kingdom Chronicles (The Fall of Llael: Book One), by Ari Marmell
The Megapolitan Flâneur is a series of short travel essays. These essays will focus on my trip to Chicago – September 4 – 6, 2013 – and what I experienced. Neither chronology or inventory, the essays will be reflective, free associative, and impressionistic. Continue reading The Megapolitan Flaneur: Part 1: Making the Literary Scene @ Quimby’s (9/5/13)