Dysfunctional suburbs. Dark thoughts. Crumbling relationships. Or in other words, just another day in the twisted world of author Ben Tanzer. The Chicago Center for Literature and Photography is proud to announce its first original book, the "story cycle" Repetition Patterns.
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In February 2009, Tanzer went on a virtual book tour to support Repetition Patterns, stopping by the blogs of twelve other authors and literary organizations to pen guest entries and interviews about both the book and writing in general. You can click here for the wrap-up of how it all went, or click on the names below to see any of their particular tour dates:
Pete Anderson | Elizabeth Crane | Jason Jordan | What To Wear During An Orange Alert | Tim Hall | Virtual postcard 1 | Michael FitzGerald | Amy Guth | Chicago Literary Examiner | Jason Riley | Nick Ostdick | Virtual postcard 2 | S. Craig Renfroe | JA Tyler
Supplemental and promotional material:
An audio interview with Tanzer regarding the origins of these stories
A critical essay by the publisher, on why he signed the book in the first place, along with detailed reviews by CCLaP's readers and a chance to leave your own (good or bad...seriously)
A "radio-play" style audio recording (MP3) of the story "Life As He Had Known It"
A 2007 interview with Tanzer for the CCLaP Podcast
More about this book's Creative Commons license, and what you can and cannot do because of it
Tanzer's first novel, Lucky Man (2007, Manx Media)
Tanzer's second novel, Maybe You'll Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine (2008, Orange Alert Press)
This book has been released under a Creative Commons license (click the above icon to actually read the license, in all its overwritten legalese glory); this gives you permission to make unlimited copies for yourself, convert it into other formats, translate it into other languages, and use it as a basis for nonprofit multimedia projects (audio, film, animation, stage performance, calligraphy, etc), in return for you not changing the contents or removing the credits.
Attention small and large presses: The paper rights for this book are still available. For more, please contact Jason Pettus, CCLaP's owner, at [cclapcenter at gmail.com].
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