Today on the CCLaP Podcast, it’s episode 2 of our special “Podcast Dreadful” 12-part serial-fiction audiobook anthology. This week featuring stories from Davis Schneiderman, Keith McCleary and Sophia G. Starmack, Jason Riley, Karl Wolff and Jacob S. Knabb, with music by Ken Kase and hosted by Christopher Sullivan. Continue reading Podcast Dreadful Episode 2 now live!
A limited-run series where I review three books about the Supreme Court of the United States, exploring its historical and ideological conflicts, and the transformations it wrought upon law and society. This week … abortion! Continue reading Monday with the Supremes: Part VI: The Abortion Debate (with Jokes)
In this week’s installment of Karl Wolff’s essay series, “On Being Human,” he explores the comic book series “Hellboy,” and a how a cigar-chomping hell demon, who also happens to be a practicing Catholic, works to save the world for Rasputin, Nazis, and all manner of Lovecraftian nightmarish entities. Continue reading CCLaP Fridays: On Being Human: Hellboy, by Mike Mignola
Announcing Podcast Dreadful, brought to you by CCLaP, a series of podcasts inspired by the penny dreadfuls of the Victorian era. Continue reading CCLaP Fridays Wednesday: Podcast Dreadful
This week’s installment of Karl Wolff’s essay series, On Being Human, examines the feminist science fiction novel “Swastika Night”, an alternate history predating Orwell’s “1984” that explores the darker regions of human behavior in a far future Europe ruled by medieval Nazi knights. Continue reading CCLaP Fridays: On Being Human: Swastika Night (1937) by Katharine Burdekin
This week, Karl Wolff reviews “Werewolves of Wisconsin and other American myths, monsters, and ghosts,” a graphic novel by Andy Fish. It explores the scary regions of these United States with gory visuals and local legends. Continue reading CCLaP Fridays: Werewolves of Wisconsin, by Andy Fish
This week, Karl Wolff continues his ongoing series “On Being Human” with “Battlestar Galactica” and “Caprica,” two Syfy TV series that explored the struggles between humanity and the machines that rebelled. Continue reading CCLaP Fridays: On Being Human: Battlestar Galactica and Caprica
This week I explore Storm Constantine’s trilogy Wraeththu, about a hermaphroditic human species that overtakes humanity during a postapocalyptic catastrophe. Continue reading CCLaP Fridays: On Being Human: Wraeththu, by Storm Constantine
I continue my essay series “On Being Human”, this week exploring the dark world of Warhammer 40K and the Space Marines. Continue reading CCLAP Fridays: On Being Human: Warhammer 40K Space Marines
Karl Wolff reviews “Isaac: a modern fable,” by Ivan G. Goldman, in which Lenny, really the Isaac from the Bible, works security for a LA movie mogul and meets Ruth, a struggling academic with an equally troubled past. In this telling, the Biblical Isaac was granted eternal life and youth. He witnesses mankind’s foibles across the centuries, so long as he doesn’t fall in love or land in jail, because then they would discover he’s not like other men. Continue reading CCLaP Fridays: Isaac: a modern fable, by Ivan Goldman
The Driftless Area Review 