This week in the CCLaP series “On Being Human,” Karl Wolff analyses Samuel Beckett’s groundbreaking “Trilogy,” where the famed avant-garde writer sought the essence of what it is to be human by stripping away the setting, plot, and characters of three small novels in a row. Continue reading CCLaP Fridays: On Being Human: The Trilogy, by Samuel Beckett
Karl Wolff reviews Firefly by Severo Sarduy (release date, March 2013), a writer praised by Roland Barthes, for his verbal richness and dreamlike evocation of pre-Castro Cuba. Continue reading Translation Tuesdays: Firefly, by Severo Sarduy
Today on the CCLaP Podcast, it’s episode 7 of A Podcast Dreadful, the center’s 12-part serial-fiction audiobook anthology taking place every Monday this autumn. Continue reading Podcast Dreadful Episode 7 of 12
Video clips from the CCLaP Podcast Dreadful series held at Quimby’s Bookstore in Wicker Park, Chicago. Continue reading Podcast Dreadful @ Quimby’s … now with video clips!
A Spy in the Ruins by Christopher Bernard constructs a postapocalyptic anti-narrative replete with verbal richness, political aggression, and erotic tenderness. Continue reading Critical Appraisals: A Spy in the Ruins, by Christopher Bernard
Today on the CCLaP Podcast, it’s episode 5 of A Podcast Dreadful, the center’s 12-part serial-fiction audiobook anthology taking place every Monday this autumn. Today’s episode includes: “Steamhouse,” part 5 of 12, by Davis Schneiderman; “The Pool,” part 1 of 8, by Jim Ruland; “The Gothickers,” part 5 of 12, by Keith McCleary and Sophia G. Starmack; “The Preacher Man,” part 2 of 6, by Jason Fisk; and “Dr. Lazarus Faust and the Anarchist Masquerade,” part 5 of 12, by Karl Wolff. Continue reading Podcast Dreadful Episode 5 is live!
Today on the CCLaP Podcast, it’s episode 4 of A Podcast Dreadful, the center’s 12-part serial-fiction audiobook anthology taking place every Monday this autumn. Today’s episode was recorded live this last Friday, September 21st, at Quimby’s Bookstore in Wicker Park, Chicago, Illinois. Continue reading Podcast Dreadful episode 4: Live at Quimby’s Bookstore (actually a recording)
Today in CCLaP’s “On Being Human,” Karl Wolff’s look at humanity as explained through various famous pieces of pop culture: It’s Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s infamous “Venus in Furs,” the 1870 book that inspired the sexual term ‘masochism.’ Continue reading CCLaP Fridays: On Being Human: Venus in Furs, by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Today on the CCLaP Podcast, it’s episode 3 of A Podcast Dreadful, the center’s 12-part serial-fiction audiobook anthology taking place every Monday this autumn. Continue reading Podcast Dreadful episode 3!
My essay on a Jack Gilbert poem is over on thethepoetryblog. Click the link to go to the essay. Continue reading An essay on a Jack Gilbert poem @ thethepoetryblog
The Driftless Area Review 