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It's Monday Tuesday, which means it's time for another episode of the CCLaP Podcast. Today: It's a one-hour talk with Chicago author David David Katzman, whose new CCLaP story collection The Kickstarter Letters just came out to the general public last week. Also featuring the music of Jonas Rathsman and Snowmine.

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David David Katzman
The Kickstarter Letters
Del Close
Death by Zamboni
A Greater Monster
A Greater Monster's Kickstarter campaign
Independent Publisher Book Awards
Common Ills
Refinery29
David David at Goodreads.com
Mike Wilgus
The Kickstarter Letters' Kickstarter campaign
Raygun Magazine
Jonas Rathsman
Snowmine

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It's Monday, which means it's time for another episode of the CCLaP Podcast. Today: It's a half-hour talk with Budapest author M. Henderson Ellis, who was recently in town because of a tour for his new novel, Keeping Bedlam at Bay in the Prague Cafe. Also featuring the music of Clemens Neufeld and Ken Kase.

Links to the things and people mentioned in today's episode:
M. Henderson Ellis
Keeping Bedlam at Bay in the Prague Cafe
Bennington College
RocketBook
CCLaP's review of Strange As Angels
CCLaP's review of A Confederacy of Dunces
New Europe Books
Clemens Neufeld
Ken Kase

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It's Monday, which means it's time for another episode of the CCLaP Podcast. Today: It's a half-hour talk with RAGAD founder Nick Ostdick and Orange Alert owner Jason Behrends, all about their new anthology of stories centered around '80s metal bands, Hair Lit. Also featuring the music of Hundred Waters and Amor de Dias.

Links to the things and people mentioned in today's episode:
Hair Lit
Nick Ostdick / Nick's 2008 podcast appearance
Orange Alert / Orange Alert Press
Ben Tanzer
Hair Lit's Kickstarter campaign
Ryan W. Bradley
Hundred Waters
Amor de Dias

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It's Monday Tuesday, which means it's time for another episode of the CCLaP Podcast. Today: To kick off 2013 and the seventh year of the podcast, we're proud to present a half-hour talk with famed author George Saunders, a Guggenheim and MacArthur grant winner who has appeared in the past on David Letterman and The Daily Show. George's newest book just came out last week, which brought him to Chicago for the start of his national tour, where we were also joined by fellow podcaster and CCLaP science-fiction author Mark R. Brand. Also featuring the music of Jason Grove and Slowdim.

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George Saunders
Saunders' Objectivism article
MacArthur Grant
Tenth of December
Jason Grove
Slowdim

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Today on the CCLaP Podcast, it's the conclusion 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 12 of 12, by Davis Schneiderman; "The Pool," part 8 of 8, by Jim Ruland; "The Gothickers," part 12 of 12, by Keith McCleary and Sophia G. Starmack; "Cure," part 4 of 4, by Ben Tanzer; and "Dr. Lazarus Faust and the Anarchist Masquerade," part 12 of 12, by Karl Wolff.

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Davis Schneiderman ("Steamhouse") is a multimedia artist and writer and the author or editor of ten print and audio works, including the novels Drain (TriQuarterly/Northwestern), the DEAD/BOOKS trilogy (Jaded Ibis), including the blank novel, Blank: a novel, with audio from Dj Spooky, and the forthcoming [SIC] and INK; and the co-edited collections Retaking the Universe: Williams S. Burroughs in the Age of Globalization (Pluto) and The Exquisite Corpse: Chance and Collaboration in Surrealism's Parlor Game (Nebraska). His creative work has appeared in numerous publications including Fiction International, The Chicago Tribune, The Iowa Review, TriQuarterly, and Exquisite Corpse, and he blogs for The Huffington Post, The Nervous Breakdown, and Big Other. He is Chair of the English Department at Lake Forest College, and also Director of Lake Forest College Press/&NOW Books. He edits The &NOW AWARDS: The Best Innovative Writing.

Jim Ruland ("The Pool") is a veteran of the Navy, the author of the short story collection Big Lonesome and the host of Vermin on the Mount -- a Southern California based reading series now in its ninth year.

Keith McCleary ("The Gothickers") is a student in the MFA program at UCSD, and is the author and illustrator of two graphic novels, Killing Tree Quarterly (2008) and Top of the Heap (2009), from Terminal Press. His work has been featured in or is forthcoming from various publications including Heavy Metal, Flash, and Weave. He has served as an editor for Kill Screen magazine.

Sophia Starmack ("The Gothickers") received an MA in French and Francophone Literature from Bryn Mawr College, and is currently completing an MFA in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence College. She works as a teacher and tutor in New York City. Her work has recently been selected to appear in Best New Poets 2012.

Ben Tanzer is the author of the books My Father's House, So Different Now, You Can Make Him Like You, and the forthcoming Orphans, among others. Ben also oversees day to day operations of This Zine Will Change Your Life and can be found online at This Blog Will Change Your Life, the center of his growing lifestyle empire.

Karl Wolff ("Dr. Lazarus Faust and the Anarchist Masquerade") was born in Milwaukee and went to college at Madison for an undergraduate degree in History. He has worked as a production hand at a local Milwaukee TV station, as a teaching assistant for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Department of History, and as a museum curator for a local historical society in Rochester, Minnesota. He currently run two blogs: The Driftless Area Review (book reviews and critical commentary) and Coffee is for Closers (about the collision of pop culture and politics), as well as writing book reviews and other critical essays for CCLaP.

Composer and musicologist Don Meyer (producer, "Steamhouse") has written original scores for a number of independent films, including Turkish Coffee (2010), A Better Life (2009), and a new film score for Hitchcock's The Lodger (1927/2007). In addition, he has composed incidental music for theater productions, dance troupes, online literary journals, and television commercials. He has also written articles about film music. He began teaching at Lake Forest College in 1995 and is now Associate Professor and Chair of the Music Department.

Todd Taylor (producer, "The Pool") is the Executive Director of Razorcake / Gorsky Press, Inc. Razorcake is the first and only official non-profit DIY punk rock fanzine in America primarily dedicated to supporting independent music culture.

Ken Kase (music) is a musician, songwriter and composer who records and produces works as a solo artist and composes music for broadcast and Internet media. He lives and works in St. Louis, MO.

Christopher Sullivan (host) first used his voice as a young child, mostly taunting other children. Today, he uses his voice for good, helping to make each new audio or video project the masterpiece it deserves to be. And "Versatility" is his middle name (after his maternal grandfather, Versatility, Senior) -- with voices ranging from a five-year-old Spanish boy in the Madeline Classroom Companion video game to the captivating narrator of the true-mystery audiobook "A Brilliant Darkness" to the reassuring and helpful voice of United Airlines' telephone reservation system.

Today on the CCLaP Podcast, it's episode 11 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 11 of 12, by Davis Schneiderman; "The Pool," part 7 of 8, by Jim Ruland; "The Gothickers," part 11 of 12, by Keith McCleary and Sophia G. Starmack; "Cure," part 3 of 4, by Ben Tanzer; and "Dr. Lazarus Faust and the Anarchist Masquerade," part 11 of 12, by Karl Wolff.

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Davis Schneiderman ("Steamhouse") is a multimedia artist and writer and the author or editor of ten print and audio works, including the novels Drain (TriQuarterly/Northwestern), the DEAD/BOOKS trilogy (Jaded Ibis), including the blank novel, Blank: a novel, with audio from Dj Spooky, and the forthcoming [SIC] and INK; and the co-edited collections Retaking the Universe: Williams S. Burroughs in the Age of Globalization (Pluto) and The Exquisite Corpse: Chance and Collaboration in Surrealismís Parlor Game (Nebraska). His creative work has appeared in numerous publications including Fiction International, The Chicago Tribune, The Iowa Review, TriQuarterly, and Exquisite Corpse, and he blogs for The Huffington Post, The Nervous Breakdown, and Big Other. He is Chair of the English Department at Lake Forest College, and also Director of Lake Forest College Press/&NOW Books. He edits The &NOW AWARDS: The Best Innovative Writing.

Jim Ruland ("The Pool") is a veteran of the Navy, the author of the short story collection Big Lonesome and the host of Vermin on the Mount -- a Southern California based reading series now in its ninth year.

Keith McCleary ("The Gothickers") is a student in the MFA program at UCSD, and is the author and illustrator of two graphic novels, Killing Tree Quarterly (2008) and Top of the Heap (2009), from Terminal Press. His work has been featured in or is forthcoming from various publications including Heavy Metal, Flash, and Weave. He has served as an editor for Kill Screen magazine.

Sophia Starmack ("The Gothickers") received an MA in French and Francophone Literature from Bryn Mawr College, and is currently completing an MFA in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence College. She works as a teacher and tutor in New York City. Her work has recently been selected to appear in Best New Poets 2012.

Ben Tanzer is the author of the books My Father's House, So Different Now, You Can Make Him Like You, and the forthcoming Orphans, among others. Ben also oversees day to day operations of This Zine Will Change Your Life and can be found online at This Blog Will Change Your Life, the center of his growing lifestyle empire.

Karl Wolff ("Dr. Lazarus Faust and the Anarchist Masquerade") was born in Milwaukee and went to college at Madison for an undergraduate degree in History. He has worked as a production hand at a local Milwaukee TV station, as a teaching assistant for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukeeís Department of History, and as a museum curator for a local historical society in Rochester, Minnesota. He currently run two blogs: The Driftless Area Review (book reviews and critical commentary) and Coffee is for Closers (about the collision of pop culture and politics), as well as writing book reviews and other critical essays for CCLaP.

Composer and musicologist Don Meyer (producer, "Steamhouse") has written original scores for a number of independent films, including Turkish Coffee (2010), A Better Life (2009), and a new film score for Hitchcock's The Lodger (1927/2007). In addition, he has composed incidental music for theater productions, dance troupes, online literary journals, and television commercials. He has also written articles about film music. He began teaching at Lake Forest College in 1995 and is now Associate Professor and Chair of the Music Department.

Todd Taylor (producer, "The Pool") is the Executive Director of Razorcake / Gorsky Press, Inc. Razorcake is the first and only official non-profit DIY punk rock fanzine in America primarily dedicated to supporting independent music culture.

Ken Kase (music) is a musician, songwriter and composer who records and produces works as a solo artist and composes music for broadcast and Internet media. He lives and works in St. Louis, MO.

Christopher Sullivan (host) first used his voice as a young child, mostly taunting other children. Today, he uses his voice for good, helping to make each new audio or video project the masterpiece it deserves to be. And "Versatility" is his middle name (after his maternal grandfather, Versatility, Senior) -- with voices ranging from a five-year-old Spanish boy in the Madeline Classroom Companion video game to the captivating narrator of the true-mystery audiobook "A Brilliant Darkness" to the reassuring and helpful voice of United Airlines' telephone reservation system.

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Today on the CCLaP Podcast, it's episode 9 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 9 of 12, by Davis Schneiderman; "The Pool," part 5 of 8, by Jim Ruland; "The Gothickers," part 9 of 12, by Keith McCleary and Sophia G. Starmack; "The Preacher Man," part 6 of 6, by Jason Fisk; "Cure," part 1 of 4, by Ben Tanzer; and "Dr. Lazarus Faust and the Anarchist Masquerade," part 9 of 12, by Karl Wolff.

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Davis Schneiderman ("Steamhouse") is a multimedia artist and writer and the author or editor of ten print and audio works, including the novels Drain (TriQuarterly/Northwestern), the DEAD/BOOKS trilogy (Jaded Ibis), including the blank novel, Blank: a novel, with audio from Dj Spooky, and the forthcoming [SIC] and INK; and the co-edited collections Retaking the Universe: Williams S. Burroughs in the Age of Globalization (Pluto) and The Exquisite Corpse: Chance and Collaboration in Surrealism's Parlor Game (Nebraska). His creative work has appeared in numerous publications including Fiction International, The Chicago Tribune, The Iowa Review, TriQuarterly, and Exquisite Corpse, and he blogs for The Huffington Post, The Nervous Breakdown, and Big Other. He is Chair of the English Department at Lake Forest College, and also Director of Lake Forest College Press/&NOW Books. He edits The &NOW AWARDS: The Best Innovative Writing.

Jim Ruland ("The Pool") is a veteran of the Navy, the author of the short story collection Big Lonesome and the host of Vermin on the Mount -- a Southern California based reading series now in its ninth year.

Keith McCleary ("The Gothickers") is a student in the MFA program at UCSD, and is the author and illustrator of two graphic novels, Killing Tree Quarterly (2008) and Top of the Heap (2009), from Terminal Press. His work has been featured in or is forthcoming from various publications including Heavy Metal, Flash, and Weave. He has served as an editor for Kill Screen magazine.

Sophia Starmack ("The Gothickers") received an MA in French and Francophone Literature from Bryn Mawr College, and is currently completing an MFA in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence College. She works as a teacher and tutor in New York City. Her work has recently been selected to appear in Best New Poets 2012.

Jason Fisk lives in the Chicago area and is a husband, a father, and a teacher. He is the author of Salt Creek Anthology, a collection of micro-fiction published by the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography; the fierce crackle of fragile wings, a collection of poetry published by Six Gallery Press; as well as two poetry chapbooks, The Sagging: Spirits and Skin, and Decay, both published by Propaganda Press.

Ben Tanzer is the author of the books My Father's House, So Different Now, You Can Make Him Like You, and the forthcoming Orphans, among others. Ben also oversees day to day operations of This Zine Will Change Your Life and can be found online at This Blog Will Change Your Life, the center of his growing lifestyle empire.

Karl Wolff ("Dr. Lazarus Faust and the Anarchist Masquerade") was born in Milwaukee and went to college at Madison for an undergraduate degree in History. He has worked as a production hand at a local Milwaukee TV station, as a teaching assistant for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Department of History, and as a museum curator for a local historical society in Rochester, Minnesota. He currently run two blogs: The Driftless Area Review (book reviews and critical commentary) and Coffee is for Closers (about the collision of pop culture and politics), as well as writing book reviews and other critical essays for CCLaP.

Composer and musicologist Don Meyer (producer, "Steamhouse") has written original scores for a number of independent films, including Turkish Coffee (2010), A Better Life (2009), and a new film score for Hitchcock's The Lodger (1927/2007). In addition, he has composed incidental music for theater productions, dance troupes, online literary journals, and television commercials. He has also written articles about film music. He began teaching at Lake Forest College in 1995 and is now Associate Professor and Chair of the Music Department.

Todd Taylor (producer, "The Pool") is the Executive Director of Razorcake / Gorsky Press, Inc. Razorcake is the first and only official non-profit DIY punk rock fanzine in America primarily dedicated to supporting independent music culture.

Ken Kase (music) is a musician, songwriter and composer who records and produces works as a solo artist and composes music for broadcast and Internet media. He lives and works in St. Louis, MO.

Christopher Sullivan (host) first used his voice as a young child, mostly taunting other children. Today, he uses his voice for good, helping to make each new audio or video project the masterpiece it deserves to be. And "Versatility" is his middle name (after his maternal grandfather, Versatility, Senior) -- with voices ranging from a five-year-old Spanish boy in the Madeline Classroom Companion video game to the captivating narrator of the true-mystery audiobook "A Brilliant Darkness" to the reassuring and helpful voice of United Airlines' telephone reservation system.

Today on the CCLaP Podcast, it's episode 8 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 8 of 12, by Davis Schneiderman; "The Pool," part 4 of 8, by Jim Ruland; "The Gothickers," part 8 of 12, by Keith McCleary and Sophia G. Starmack; "The Preacher Man," part 5 of 6, by Jason Fisk; and "Dr. Lazarus Faust and the Anarchist Masquerade," part 8 of 12, by Karl Wolff.

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Davis Schneiderman ("Steamhouse") is a multimedia artist and writer and the author or editor of ten print and audio works, including the novels Drain (TriQuarterly/Northwestern), the DEAD/BOOKS trilogy (Jaded Ibis), including the blank novel, Blank: a novel, with audio from Dj Spooky, and the forthcoming [SIC] and INK; and the co-edited collections Retaking the Universe: Williams S. Burroughs in the Age of Globalization (Pluto) and The Exquisite Corpse: Chance and Collaboration in Surrealism's Parlor Game (Nebraska). His creative work has appeared in numerous publications including Fiction International, The Chicago Tribune, The Iowa Review, TriQuarterly, and Exquisite Corpse, and he blogs for The Huffington Post, The Nervous Breakdown, and Big Other. He is Chair of the English Department at Lake Forest College, and also Director of Lake Forest College Press/&NOW Books. He edits The &NOW AWARDS: The Best Innovative Writing.

Jim Ruland ("The Pool") is a veteran of the Navy, the author of the short story collection Big Lonesome and the host of Vermin on the Mount -- a Southern California based reading series now in its ninth year.

Keith McCleary ("The Gothickers") is a student in the MFA program at UCSD, and is the author and illustrator of two graphic novels, Killing Tree Quarterly (2008) and Top of the Heap (2009), from Terminal Press. His work has been featured in or is forthcoming from various publications including Heavy Metal, Flash, and Weave. He has served as an editor for Kill Screen magazine.

Sophia Starmack ("The Gothickers") received an MA in French and Francophone Literature from Bryn Mawr College, and is currently completing an MFA in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence College. She works as a teacher and tutor in New York City. Her work has recently been selected to appear in Best New Poets 2012.

Jason Fisk lives in the Chicago area and is a husband, a father, and a teacher. He is the author of Salt Creek Anthology, a collection of micro-fiction published by the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography; the fierce crackle of fragile wings, a collection of poetry published by Six Gallery Press; as well as two poetry chapbooks, The Sagging: Spirits and Skin, and Decay, both published by Propaganda Press.

Karl Wolff ("Dr. Lazarus Faust and the Anarchist Masquerade") was born in Milwaukee and went to college at Madison for an undergraduate degree in History. He has worked as a production hand at a local Milwaukee TV station, as a teaching assistant for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Department of History, and as a museum curator for a local historical society in Rochester, Minnesota. He currently run two blogs: The Driftless Area Review (book reviews and critical commentary) and Coffee is for Closers (about the collision of pop culture and politics), as well as writing book reviews and other critical essays for CCLaP.

Composer and musicologist Don Meyer (producer, "Steamhouse") has written original scores for a number of independent films, including Turkish Coffee (2010), A Better Life (2009), and a new film score for Hitchcock's The Lodger (1927/2007). In addition, he has composed incidental music for theater productions, dance troupes, online literary journals, and television commercials. He has also written articles about film music. He began teaching at Lake Forest College in 1995 and is now Associate Professor and Chair of the Music Department.

Todd Taylor (producer, "The Pool") is the Executive Director of Razorcake / Gorsky Press, Inc. Razorcake is the first and only official non-profit DIY punk rock fanzine in America primarily dedicated to supporting independent music culture.

Ken Kase (music) is a musician, songwriter and composer who records and produces works as a solo artist and composes music for broadcast and Internet media. He lives and works in St. Louis, MO.

Christopher Sullivan (host) first used his voice as a young child, mostly taunting other children. Today, he uses his voice for good, helping to make each new audio or video project the masterpiece it deserves to be. And "Versatility" is his middle name (after his maternal grandfather, Versatility, Senior) -- with voices ranging from a five-year-old Spanish boy in the Madeline Classroom Companion video game to the captivating narrator of the true-mystery audiobook "A Brilliant Darkness" to the reassuring and helpful voice of United Airlines' telephone reservation system.

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. Today's episode includes: "Steamhouse," part 7 of 12, by Davis Schneiderman; "The Pool," part 3 of 8, by Jim Ruland; "The Gothickers," part 7 of 12, by Keith McCleary and Sophia G. Starmack; "The Preacher Man," part 4 of 6, by Jason Fisk; and "Dr. Lazarus Faust and the Anarchist Masquerade," part 7 of 12, by Karl Wolff.

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Davis Schneiderman ("Steamhouse") is a multimedia artist and writer and the author or editor of ten print and audio works, including the novels Drain (TriQuarterly/Northwestern), the DEAD/BOOKS trilogy (Jaded Ibis), including the blank novel, Blank: a novel, with audio from Dj Spooky, and the forthcoming [SIC] and INK; and the co-edited collections Retaking the Universe: Williams S. Burroughs in the Age of Globalization (Pluto) and The Exquisite Corpse: Chance and Collaboration in Surrealism's Parlor Game (Nebraska). His creative work has appeared in numerous publications including Fiction International, The Chicago Tribune, The Iowa Review, TriQuarterly, and Exquisite Corpse, and he blogs for The Huffington Post, The Nervous Breakdown, and Big Other. He is Chair of the English Department at Lake Forest College, and also Director of Lake Forest College Press/&NOW Books. He edits The &NOW AWARDS: The Best Innovative Writing.

Jim Ruland ("The Pool") is a veteran of the Navy, the author of the short story collection Big Lonesome and the host of Vermin on the Mount -- a Southern California based reading series now in its ninth year.

Keith McCleary ("The Gothickers") is a student in the MFA program at UCSD, and is the author and illustrator of two graphic novels, Killing Tree Quarterly (2008) and Top of the Heap (2009), from Terminal Press. His work has been featured in or is forthcoming from various publications including Heavy Metal, Flash, and Weave. He has served as an editor for Kill Screen magazine.

Sophia Starmack ("The Gothickers") received an MA in French and Francophone Literature from Bryn Mawr College, and is currently completing an MFA in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence College. She works as a teacher and tutor in New York City. Her work has recently been selected to appear in Best New Poets 2012.

Jason Fisk lives in the Chicago area and is a husband, a father, and a teacher. He is the author of Salt Creek Anthology, a collection of micro-fiction published by the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography; the fierce crackle of fragile wings, a collection of poetry published by Six Gallery Press; as well as two poetry chapbooks, The Sagging: Spirits and Skin, and Decay, both published by Propaganda Press.

Karl Wolff ("Dr. Lazarus Faust and the Anarchist Masquerade") was born in Milwaukee and went to college at Madison for an undergraduate degree in History. He has worked as a production hand at a local Milwaukee TV station, as a teaching assistant for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Department of History, and as a museum curator for a local historical society in Rochester, Minnesota. He currently run two blogs: The Driftless Area Review (book reviews and critical commentary) and Coffee is for Closers (about the collision of pop culture and politics), as well as writing book reviews and other critical essays for CCLaP.

Composer and musicologist Don Meyer (producer, "Steamhouse") has written original scores for a number of independent films, including Turkish Coffee (2010), A Better Life (2009), and a new film score for Hitchcock's The Lodger (1927/2007). In addition, he has composed incidental music for theater productions, dance troupes, online literary journals, and television commercials. He has also written articles about film music. He began teaching at Lake Forest College in 1995 and is now Associate Professor and Chair of the Music Department.

Todd Taylor (producer, "The Pool") is the Executive Director of Razorcake / Gorsky Press, Inc. Razorcake is the first and only official non-profit DIY punk rock fanzine in America primarily dedicated to supporting independent music culture.

Ken Kase (music) is a musician, songwriter and composer who records and produces works as a solo artist and composes music for broadcast and Internet media. He lives and works in St. Louis, MO.

Christopher Sullivan (host) first used his voice as a young child, mostly taunting other children. Today, he uses his voice for good, helping to make each new audio or video project the masterpiece it deserves to be. And "Versatility" is his middle name (after his maternal grandfather, Versatility, Senior) -- with voices ranging from a five-year-old Spanish boy in the Madeline Classroom Companion video game to the captivating narrator of the true-mystery audiobook "A Brilliant Darkness" to the reassuring and helpful voice of United Airlines' telephone reservation system.

Today on the CCLaP Podcast, it's episode 6 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 6 of 12, by Davis Schneiderman; "The Pool," part 2 of 8, by Jim Ruland; "The Gothickers," part 6 of 12, by Keith McCleary and Sophia G. Starmack; "The Preacher Man," part 3 of 6, by Jason Fisk; and "Dr. Lazarus Faust and the Anarchist Masquerade," part 6 of 12, by Karl Wolff.

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Cast and crew bios:

Davis Schneiderman ("Steamhouse") is a multimedia artist and writer and the author or editor of ten print and audio works, including the novels Drain (TriQuarterly/Northwestern), the DEAD/BOOKS trilogy (Jaded Ibis), including the blank novel, Blank: a novel, with audio from Dj Spooky, and the forthcoming [SIC] and INK; and the co-edited collections Retaking the Universe: Williams S. Burroughs in the Age of Globalization (Pluto) and The Exquisite Corpse: Chance and Collaboration in Surrealism's Parlor Game (Nebraska). His creative work has appeared in numerous publications including Fiction International, The Chicago Tribune, The Iowa Review, TriQuarterly, and Exquisite Corpse, and he blogs for The Huffington Post, The Nervous Breakdown, and Big Other. He is Chair of the English Department at Lake Forest College, and also Director of Lake Forest College Press/&NOW Books. He edits The &NOW AWARDS: The Best Innovative Writing.

Jim Ruland ("The Pool") is a veteran of the Navy, the author of the short story collection Big Lonesome and the host of Vermin on the Mount -- a Southern California based reading series now in its ninth year.

Keith McCleary ("The Gothickers") is a student in the MFA program at UCSD, and is the author and illustrator of two graphic novels, Killing Tree Quarterly (2008) and Top of the Heap (2009), from Terminal Press. His work has been featured in or is forthcoming from various publications including Heavy Metal, Flash, and Weave. He has served as an editor for Kill Screen magazine.

Sophia Starmack ("The Gothickers") received an MA in French and Francophone Literature from Bryn Mawr College, and is currently completing an MFA in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence College. She works as a teacher and tutor in New York City. Her work has recently been selected to appear in Best New Poets 2012.

Jason Fisk lives in the Chicago area and is a husband, a father, and a teacher. He is the author of Salt Creek Anthology, a collection of micro-fiction published by the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography; the fierce crackle of fragile wings, a collection of poetry published by Six Gallery Press; as well as two poetry chapbooks, The Sagging: Spirits and Skin, and Decay, both published by Propaganda Press.

Karl Wolff ("Dr. Lazarus Faust and the Anarchist Masquerade") was born in Milwaukee and went to college at Madison for an undergraduate degree in History. He has worked as a production hand at a local Milwaukee TV station, as a teaching assistant for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Department of History, and as a museum curator for a local historical society in Rochester, Minnesota. He currently run two blogs: The Driftless Area Review (book reviews and critical commentary) and Coffee is for Closers (about the collision of pop culture and politics), as well as writing book reviews and other critical essays for CCLaP.

Composer and musicologist Don Meyer (producer, "Steamhouse") has written original scores for a number of independent films, including Turkish Coffee (2010), A Better Life (2009), and a new film score for Hitchcock's The Lodger (1927/2007). In addition, he has composed incidental music for theater productions, dance troupes, online literary journals, and television commercials. He has also written articles about film music. He began teaching at Lake Forest College in 1995 and is now Associate Professor and Chair of the Music Department.

Todd Taylor (producer, "The Pool") is the Executive Director of Razorcake / Gorsky Press, Inc. Razorcake is the first and only official non-profit DIY punk rock fanzine in America primarily dedicated to supporting independent music culture.

Ken Kase (music) is a musician, songwriter and composer who records and produces works as a solo artist and composes music for broadcast and Internet media. He lives and works in St. Louis, MO.

Christopher Sullivan (host) first used his voice as a young child, mostly taunting other children. Today, he uses his voice for good, helping to make each new audio or video project the masterpiece it deserves to be. And "Versatility" is his middle name (after his maternal grandfather, Versatility, Senior) -- with voices ranging from a five-year-old Spanish boy in the Madeline Classroom Companion video game to the captivating narrator of the true-mystery audiobook "A Brilliant Darkness" to the reassuring and helpful voice of United Airlines' telephone reservation system.

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.

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Davis Schneiderman ("Steamhouse") is a multimedia artist and writer and the author or editor of ten print and audio works, including the novels Drain (TriQuarterly/Northwestern), the DEAD/BOOKS trilogy (Jaded Ibis), including the blank novel, Blank: a novel, with audio from Dj Spooky, and the forthcoming [SIC] and INK; and the co-edited collections Retaking the Universe: Williams S. Burroughs in the Age of Globalization (Pluto) and The Exquisite Corpse: Chance and Collaboration in Surrealism's Parlor Game (Nebraska). His creative work has appeared in numerous publications including Fiction International, The Chicago Tribune, The Iowa Review, TriQuarterly, and Exquisite Corpse, and he blogs for The Huffington Post, The Nervous Breakdown, and Big Other. He is Chair of the English Department at Lake Forest College, and also Director of Lake Forest College Press/&NOW Books. He edits The &NOW AWARDS: The Best Innovative Writing.

Jim Ruland ("The Pool") is a veteran of the Navy, the author of the short story collection Big Lonesome and the host of Vermin on the Mount -- a Southern California based reading series now in its ninth year.

Keith McCleary ("The Gothickers") is a student in the MFA program at UCSD, and is the author and illustrator of two graphic novels, Killing Tree Quarterly (2008) and Top of the Heap (2009), from Terminal Press. His work has been featured in or is forthcoming from various publications including Heavy Metal, Flash, and Weave. He has served as an editor for Kill Screen magazine.

Sophia Starmack ("The Gothickers") received an MA in French and Francophone Literature from Bryn Mawr College, and is currently completing an MFA in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence College. She works as a teacher and tutor in New York City. Her work has recently been selected to appear in Best New Poets 2012.

Jason Fisk lives in the Chicago area and is a husband, a father, and a teacher. He is the author of Salt Creek Anthology, a collection of micro-fiction published by the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography; the fierce crackle of fragile wings, a collection of poetry published by Six Gallery Press; as well as two poetry chapbooks, The Sagging: Spirits and Skin, and Decay, both published by Propaganda Press.

Karl Wolff ("Dr. Lazarus Faust and the Anarchist Masquerade") was born in Milwaukee and went to college at Madison for an undergraduate degree in History. He has worked as a production hand at a local Milwaukee TV station, as a teaching assistant for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Department of History, and as a museum curator for a local historical society in Rochester, Minnesota. He currently run two blogs: The Driftless Area Review (book reviews and critical commentary) and Coffee is for Closers (about the collision of pop culture and politics), as well as writing book reviews and other critical essays for CCLaP.

Composer and musicologist Don Meyer (producer, "Steamhouse") has written original scores for a number of independent films, including Turkish Coffee (2010), A Better Life (2009), and a new film score for Hitchcock's The Lodger (1927/2007). In addition, he has composed incidental music for theater productions, dance troupes, online literary journals, and television commercials. He has also written articles about film music. He began teaching at Lake Forest College in 1995 and is now Associate Professor and Chair of the Music Department.

Todd Taylor (producer, "The Pool") is the Executive Director of Razorcake / Gorsky Press, Inc. Razorcake is the first and only official non-profit DIY punk rock fanzine in America primarily dedicated to supporting independent music culture.

Ken Kase (music) is a musician, songwriter and composer who records and produces works as a solo artist and composes music for broadcast and Internet media. He lives and works in St. Louis, MO.

Christopher Sullivan (host) first used his voice as a young child, mostly taunting other children. Today, he uses his voice for good, helping to make each new audio or video project the masterpiece it deserves to be. And "Versatility" is his middle name (after his maternal grandfather, Versatility, Senior) -- with voices ranging from a five-year-old Spanish boy in the Madeline Classroom Companion video game to the captivating narrator of the true-mystery audiobook "A Brilliant Darkness" to the reassuring and helpful voice of United Airlines' telephone reservation system.

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, and includes:

"Steamhouse," part 4 of 12, by Davis Schneiderman: In which we finally see a terrifying example of The System, the augmented-reality machine stolen from foreign interests that is holding together the suburban Chicago post-apocalyptic society where our story takes place;

"The Gothickers," part 4 of 12, by Keith McCleary and Sophia G. Starmack: In which a harp lesson is endured, a laboratory is defiled, and our Victorian detective siblings learn more about their new case;

"The Preacher Man," part 1 of 6, by Jason Fisk: In which we are introduced to the small-town crooked minister and the violent man-child who stand at the center of this dark story;

"Dr. Lazarus Faust and the Anarchist Masquerade," part 4 of 12, by Karl Wolff: In which our famed alchemist and libertine enlists the aid of a Romany friend in his investigation of the murder of a Viennese aristocrat;

and "Bad Penny," part 4 of 12, by Jacob S. Knabb: In which a young woman does some private snooping into an unsolved murder in early 20th-century rural West Virginia that has captivated her small town.

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Davis Schneiderman ("Steamhouse") is a multimedia artist and writer and the author or editor of ten print and audio works, including the novels Drain (TriQuarterly/Northwestern), the DEAD/BOOKS trilogy (Jaded Ibis), including the blank novel, Blank: a novel, with audio from Dj Spooky, and the forthcoming [SIC] and INK; and the co-edited collections Retaking the Universe: Williams S. Burroughs in the Age of Globalization (Pluto) and The Exquisite Corpse: Chance and Collaboration in Surrealism's Parlor Game (Nebraska). His creative work has appeared in numerous publications including Fiction International, The Chicago Tribune, The Iowa Review, TriQuarterly, and Exquisite Corpse, and he blogs for The Huffington Post, The Nervous Breakdown, and Big Other. He is Chair of the English Department at Lake Forest College, and also Director of Lake Forest College Press/&NOW Books. He edits The &NOW AWARDS: The Best Innovative Writing.

Keith McCleary ("The Gothickers") is a student in the MFA program at UCSD, and is the author and illustrator of two graphic novels, Killing Tree Quarterly (2008) and Top of the Heap (2009), from Terminal Press. His work has been featured in or is forthcoming from various publications including Heavy Metal, Flash, and Weave. He has served as an editor for Kill Screen magazine.

Sophia Starmack ("The Gothickers") received an MA in French and Francophone Literature from Bryn Mawr College, and is currently completing an MFA in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence College. She works as a teacher and tutor in New York City. Her work has recently been selected to appear in Best New Poets 2012.

Jason Fisk is a husband, a father, and a dog owner. He lives in Chicago-land. He has had poems and fiction published in numerous publications. He is the author of Salt Creek Anthology, a collection of micro-fiction published by CCLaP; the fierce crackle of fragile wings, a collection of poetry published by Six Gallery Press; as well as two peotry chapbooks, The Sagging: Spirits and Skin, and Decay, both published by Propaganda Press.

Karl Wolff ("Dr. Lazarus Faust and the Anarchist Masquerade") was born in Milwaukee and went to college at Madison for an undergraduate degree in History. He has worked as a production hand at a local Milwaukee TV station, as a teaching assistant for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Department of History, and as a museum curator for a local historical society in Rochester, Minnesota. He currently run two blogs: The Driftless Area Review (book reviews and critical commentary) and Coffee is for Closers (about the collision of pop culture and politics), as well as writing book reviews and other critical essays for CCLaP.

Jacob S. Knabb ("Bad Penny") is both a villain and a scallawag and his words are marinated in the devil's teardrops. Rumor has it that he resides in Chicago where he serves as a publisher of scurrilous paper editions of the sorts of filth and flarn the likes of which few can even conceive.

Ken Kase (music) is a musician, songwriter and composer who records and produces works as a solo artist and composes music for broadcast and Internet media. He lives and works in St. Louis, MO.

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. Today's episode includes:

"Steamhouse," part 3 of 12, by Davis Schneiderman: In which yet more is learned about the post-apocalyptic Chicago suburb where our story takes place, as well as the time-manipulating science-fiction machine known as the System holding it together;

"The Gothickers," part 3 of 12, by Keith McCleary and Sophia G. Starmack: In which a harp lesson is endured, a laboratory is defiled, and our Victorian detective siblings learn more about their new case;

"The Sharpened Spears of the Huaorani!," part 3 of 3, by Jason Riley: In which we conclude our adventures with our young Irish narrator, as he has too much to drink at a dinner party held by his new girlfriend's family;

"Dr. Lazarus Faust and the Anarchist Masquerade," part 3 of 12, by Karl Wolff: In which our famed alchemist and libertine enlists the aid of a Romany friend in his investigation of the murder of a Viennese aristocrat;

and "Bad Penny," part 3 of 12, by Jacob S. Knabb: In which a young woman does some private snooping into an unsolved murder in early 20th-century rural West Virginia that has captivated her small town.

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Davis Schneiderman ("Steamhouse") is a multimedia artist and writer and the author or editor of ten print and audio works, including the novels Drain (TriQuarterly/Northwestern), the DEAD/BOOKS trilogy (Jaded Ibis), including the blank novel, Blank: a novel, with audio from Dj Spooky, and the forthcoming [SIC] and INK; and the co-edited collections Retaking the Universe: Williams S. Burroughs in the Age of Globalization (Pluto) and The Exquisite Corpse: Chance and Collaboration in Surrealism's Parlor Game (Nebraska). His creative work has appeared in numerous publications including Fiction International, The Chicago Tribune, The Iowa Review, TriQuarterly, and Exquisite Corpse, and he blogs for The Huffington Post, The Nervous Breakdown, and Big Other. He is Chair of the English Department at Lake Forest College, and also Director of Lake Forest College Press/&NOW Books. He edits The &NOW AWARDS: The Best Innovative Writing.

Keith McCleary ("The Gothickers") is a student in the MFA program at UCSD, and is the author and illustrator of two graphic novels, Killing Tree Quarterly (2008) and Top of the Heap (2009), from Terminal Press. His work has been featured in or is forthcoming from various publications including Heavy Metal, Flash, and Weave. He has served as an editor for Kill Screen magazine.

Sophia Starmack ("The Gothickers") received an MA in French and Francophone Literature from Bryn Mawr College, and is currently completing an MFA in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence College. She works as a teacher and tutor in New York City. Her work has recently been selected to appear in Best New Poets 2012.

Jason R. Riley ("The Sharpened Spears of the Huaorani!") is from Duluth, Minnesota, and lives in Northern California. His work has appeared in Whistling Shade, Cell Stories, Pology Magazine, and Eclectica Magazine.

Karl Wolff ("Dr. Lazarus Faust and the Anarchist Masquerade") was born in Milwaukee and went to college at Madison for an undergraduate degree in History. He has worked as a production hand at a local Milwaukee TV station, as a teaching assistant for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Department of History, and as a museum curator for a local historical society in Rochester, Minnesota. He currently run two blogs: The Driftless Area Review (book reviews and critical commentary) and Coffee is for Closers (about the collision of pop culture and politics), as well as writing book reviews and other critical essays for CCLaP.

Jacob S. Knabb ("Bad Penny") is both a villain and a scallawag and his words are marinated in the devil's teardrops. Rumor has it that he resides in Chicago where he serves as a publisher of scurrilous paper editions of the sorts of filth and flarn the likes of which few can even conceive.

Composer and musicologist Don Meyer (producer, "Steamhouse") has written original scores for a number of independent films, including Turkish Coffee (2010), A Better Life (2009), and a new film score for Hitchcock's The Lodger (1927/2007). In addition, he has composed incidental music for theater productions, dance troupes, online literary journals, and television commercials. He has also written articles about film music. He began teaching at Lake Forest College in 1995 and is now Associate Professor and Chair of the Music Department.

Ken Kase (music) is a musician, songwriter and composer who records and produces works as a solo artist and composes music for broadcast and Internet media. He lives and works in St. Louis, MO.

Christopher Sullivan (host) first used his voice as a young child, mostly taunting other children. Today, he uses his voice for good, helping to make each new audio or video project the masterpiece it deserves to be. And "Versatility" is his middle name (after his maternal grandfather, Versatility, Senior) -- with voices ranging from a five-year-old Spanish boy in the Madeline Classroom Companion video game to the captivating narrator of the true-mystery audiobook "A Brilliant Darkness" to the reassuring and helpful voice of United Airlines' telephone reservation system.

Today on the CCLaP Podcast, it's episode 2 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 2 of 12, by Davis Schneiderman: In which we learn more about the augmented-reality device known as the System that is holding together our heroes' post-apocalyptic society in the former Chicago suburbs;

"The Gothickers," part 2 of 12, by Keith McCleary and Sophia G. Starmack: In which our Victorian detective siblings learn more about their new client, and a monkey fight ensues;

"The Sharpened Spears of the Huaorani!," part 2 of 3, by Jason Riley: In which our young Irish narrator continues having too much to drink at a dinner party held by his new girlfriend's family;

"Dr. Lazarus Faust and the Anarchist Masquerade," part 2 of 12, by Karl Wolff: In which our famed alchemist and libertine discovers a supernatural element to his investigation of the murder of a Viennese aristocrat;

and "Bad Penny," part 2 of 12, by Jacob S. Knabb: In which we learn more about the dark medical experiments behind an unsolved murder in early 20th-century rural West Virginia.

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Davis Schneiderman ("Steamhouse") is a multimedia artist and writer and the author or editor of ten print and audio works, including the novels Drain (TriQuarterly/Northwestern), the DEAD/BOOKS trilogy (Jaded Ibis), including the blank novel, Blank: a novel, with audio from Dj Spooky, and the forthcoming [SIC] and INK; and the co-edited collections Retaking the Universe: Williams S. Burroughs in the Age of Globalization (Pluto) and The Exquisite Corpse: Chance and Collaboration in Surrealism's Parlor Game (Nebraska). His creative work has appeared in numerous publications including Fiction International, The Chicago Tribune, The Iowa Review, TriQuarterly, and Exquisite Corpse, and he blogs for The Huffington Post, The Nervous Breakdown, and Big Other. He is Chair of the English Department at Lake Forest College, and also Director of Lake Forest College Press/&NOW Books. He edits The &NOW AWARDS: The Best Innovative Writing.

Keith McCleary ("The Gothickers") is a student in the MFA program at UCSD, and is the author and illustrator of two graphic novels, Killing Tree Quarterly (2008) and Top of the Heap (2009), from Terminal Press. His work has been featured in or is forthcoming from various publications including Heavy Metal, Flash, and Weave. He has served as an editor for Kill Screen magazine.

Sophia Starmack ("The Gothickers") received an MA in French and Francophone Literature from Bryn Mawr College, and is currently completing an MFA in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence College. She works as a teacher and tutor in New York City. Her work has recently been selected to appear in Best New Poets 2012.

Jason R. Riley ("The Sharpened Spears of the Huaorani!") is from Duluth, Minnesota, and lives in Northern California. His work has appeared in Whistling Shade, Cell Stories, Pology Magazine, and Eclectica Magazine.

Karl Wolff ("Dr. Lazarus Faust and the Anarchist Masquerade") was born in Milwaukee and went to college at Madison for an undergraduate degree in History. He has worked as a production hand at a local Milwaukee TV station, as a teaching assistant for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Department of History, and as a museum curator for a local historical society in Rochester, Minnesota. He currently run two blogs: The Driftless Area Review (book reviews and critical commentary) and Coffee is for Closers (about the collision of pop culture and politics), as well as writing book reviews and other critical essays for CCLaP.

Jacob S. Knabb ("Bad Penny") is both a villain and a scallawag and his words are marinated in the devil's teardrops. Rumor has it that he resides in Chicago where he serves as a publisher of scurrilous paper editions of the sorts of filth and flarn the likes of which few can even conceive.

Composer and musicologist Don Meyer (producer, "Steamhouse") has written original scores for a number of independent films, including Turkish Coffee (2010), A Better Life (2009), and a new film score for Hitchcock's The Lodger (1927/2007). In addition, he has composed incidental music for theater productions, dance troupes, online literary journals, and television commercials. He has also written articles about film music. He began teaching at Lake Forest College in 1995 and is now Associate Professor and Chair of the Music Department.

Ken Kase (music) is a musician, songwriter and composer who records and produces works as a solo artist and composes music for broadcast and Internet media. He lives and works in St. Louis, MO.

Christopher Sullivan (host) first used his voice as a young child, mostly taunting other children. Today, he uses his voice for good, helping to make each new audio or video project the masterpiece it deserves to be. And "Versatility" is his middle name (after his maternal grandfather, Versatility, Senior) -- with voices ranging from a five-year-old Spanish boy in the Madeline Classroom Companion video game to the captivating narrator of the true-mystery audiobook "A Brilliant Darkness" to the reassuring and helpful voice of United Airlines' telephone reservation system.

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It's Monday Thursday, which means it's time for another episode of the CCLaP Podcast. Today: It's my one-hour talk with British science-fiction author Charles Stross, a prolific writer who works in all kinds of different genres simultaneously, but is perhaps best known for coining the phrase "Accelerated Age" to refer to the spate of "Singularity" novels that became so popular in the early 2000s. Also featuring the music of Booker T and Sons Of Bill.

Links to the things and people mentioned in today's episode:
Charles Stross
Worldcon 2012
Dungeons and Dragons' Fiend Folio
Interzone Magazine
Singularity Sky / CCLaP's review of Singularity Sky
Accelerando
Saturn's Children / CCLaP's review of Saturn's Children
Rapture of the Nerds / CCLaP's interview with Cory Doctorow
Sons Of Bill

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Today on the CCLaP Podcast, it's episode 1 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 1 of 12, by Davis Schneiderman: In which a post-apocalyptic society is formed in the former Chicago suburb of Highland Park, but with a secret among the village elders that may kill them all;

"The Gothickers," part 1 of 12, by Keith McCleary and Sophia G. Starmack: In which our Victorian detective hero and his jelly-devouring, monkey-owning sister are dragged into a new mystery;

"The Sharpened Spears of the Huaorani!," part 1 of 3, by Jason Riley: In which our young Irish narrator attends a dinner party hosted by his new girlfriend's family, and everything goes to hell;

"Dr. Lazarus Faust and the Anarchist Masquerade," part 1 of 12, by Karl Wolff: In which our famed alchemist and libertine investigates the murder of a Viennese aristocrat;

and "Bad Penny," part 1 of 12, by Jacob S. Knabb: In which a murder is committed in early 20th-century rural West Virginia, and a Yankee detective comes to town to solve it.

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Davis Schneiderman ("Steamhouse") is a multimedia artist and writer and the author or editor of ten print and audio works, including the novels Drain (TriQuarterly/Northwestern), the DEAD/BOOKS trilogy (Jaded Ibis), including the blank novel, Blank: a novel, with audio from Dj Spooky, and the forthcoming [SIC] and INK; and the co-edited collections Retaking the Universe: Williams S. Burroughs in the Age of Globalization (Pluto) and The Exquisite Corpse: Chance and Collaboration in Surrealism's Parlor Game (Nebraska). His creative work has appeared in numerous publications including Fiction International, The Chicago Tribune, The Iowa Review, TriQuarterly, and Exquisite Corpse, and he blogs for The Huffington Post, The Nervous Breakdown, and Big Other. He is Chair of the English Department at Lake Forest College, and also Director of Lake Forest College Press/&NOW Books. He edits The &NOW AWARDS: The Best Innovative Writing.

Keith McCleary ("The Gothickers") is a student in the MFA program at UCSD, and is the author and illustrator of two graphic novels, Killing Tree Quarterly (2008) and Top of the Heap (2009), from Terminal Press. His work has been featured in or is forthcoming from various publications including Heavy Metal, Flash, and Weave. He has served as an editor for Kill Screen magazine.

Sophia Starmack ("The Gothickers") received an MA in French and Francophone Literature from Bryn Mawr College, and is currently completing an MFA in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence College. She works as a teacher and tutor in New York City. Her work has recently been selected to appear in Best New Poets 2012.

Jason R. Riley ("The Sharpened Spears of the Huaorani!") is from Duluth, Minnesota, and lives in Northern California. His work has appeared in Whistling Shade, Cell Stories, Pology Magazine, and Eclectica Magazine.

Karl Wolff ("Dr. Lazarus Faust and the Anarchist Masquerade") was born in Milwaukee and went to college at Madison for an undergraduate degree in History. He has worked as a production hand at a local Milwaukee TV station, as a teaching assistant for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Department of History, and as a museum curator for a local historical society in Rochester, Minnesota. He currently run two blogs: The Driftless Area Review (book reviews and critical commentary) and Coffee is for Closers (about the collision of pop culture and politics), as well as writing book reviews and other critical essays for CCLaP.

Jacob S. Knabb ("Bad Penny") is both a villain and a scallawag and his words are marinated in the devil's teardrops. Rumor has it that he resides in Chicago where he serves as a publisher of scurrilous paper editions of the sorts of filth and flarn the likes of which few can even conceive.

Composer and musicologist Don Meyer (producer, "Steamhouse") has written original scores for a number of independent films, including Turkish Coffee (2010), A Better Life (2009), and a new film score for Hitchcock's The Lodger (1927/2007). In addition, he has composed incidental music for theater productions, dance troupes, online literary journals, and television commercials. He has also written articles about film music. He began teaching at Lake Forest College in 1995 and is now Associate Professor and Chair of the Music Department.

Ken Kase (music) is a musician, songwriter and composer who records and produces works as a solo artist and composes music for broadcast and Internet media. He lives and works in St. Louis, MO.

Christopher Sullivan (host) first used his voice as a young child, mostly taunting other children. Today, he uses his voice for good, helping to make each new audio or video project the masterpiece it deserves to be. And "Versatility" is his middle name (after his maternal grandfather, Versatility, Senior) -- with voices ranging from a five-year-old Spanish boy in the Madeline Classroom Companion video game to the captivating narrator of the true-mystery audiobook "A Brilliant Darkness" to the reassuring and helpful voice of United Airlines' telephone reservation system.

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It's Monday Friday, which means it's time for another episode of the CCLaP Podcast. Today: It's the August edition of CCLaP's monthly music special, in which I share my favorites of the free legal online music I've been finding over the last two months, college-radio style. Today's episode features 15 songs and lasts a little under an hour; and don't forget, if you download the enhanced MP4 version linked to below and listen on an iPod (or simply subscribe to CCLaP's iTunes channel), chapters and links and images will be at your disposal too!

Today's music came from original recommendations by: BIGSTEREO; Curb Crawlers; Daytrotter; Deckfight; Discobelle; Electrorash; Feel my Bicep; fluo kids; IndieFeed; KCRW; KEXP; Keytars & Violins; Minnesota Public Radio; modyfier; National Public Radio's Second Stage; No Pain In Pop; Pitchfork; Radio Free Chicago; What To Wear During An Orange Alert; and as always, suggestions from listeners like you (cclapcenter [at] gmail.com).

Musicians featured in today's episode:
Mad Mike featuring Davina
Sons of Bill
Living Things
Moonlight Bride
Youngblood Hawke
Memory Map
Maps & Atlases
Justin Robinson and The Mary Annettes
MNDR / All Dom Wrong
Kevin Hearn and Thin Buckle
The Sea and Cake
Gospel Music
Icky Blossoms
We Are Serenades

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It's Monday Tuesday, which means it's time for another episode of the CCLaP Podcast. Today: It's my talk with Louisville author Patrick Wensink, whose bizarro novel Broken Piano for President recently became a national viral sensation, after receiving "The Most Polite Cease And Desist Letter In History" from Jack Daniels. Also featuring the music of The Monitors and Gotye.

Links to the things and people mentioned in today's episode:
Patrick Wensink
Sex Dungeon for Sale! / CCLaP's review of Sex Dungeon for Sale!
Eraserhead Press
Lazy Fascist Press
Black Hole Blues / CCLaP's review of Black Hole Blues
Broken Piano for President / CCLaP's review of Broken Piano for President
Publishers Weekly review of Broken Piano for President
Boing Boing: 'The Most Polite Cease and Desist Letter in History' (Related: CCLaP's interview with Cory Doctorow)
The 'Jack Daniels Incident:' TIME / Huffington Post / Forbes
Reading Under the Influence
The Monitors
Gotye

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It's Monday Friday, which means it's time for another episode of the CCLaP Podcast. Today: It's the triumphant return of CCLaP's monthly music special, in which I share my favorites of the free legal online music I've been finding over the last two months, college-radio style. (And in fact, since we've gained so many new listeners since the last music special, I take an extra moment today at the beginning to explain where exactly I get this music and how I put these mixes together.) Today's episode features 15 songs and lasts a little under an hour; and don't forget, if you download the enhanced MP4 version linked to below and listen on an iPod (or simply subscribe to CCLaP's iTunes channel), chapters and links and images will be at your disposal too!

Today's music came from original recommendations by: BIGSTEREO; Curb Crawlers; Daytrotter; Deckfight; Discobelle; Electrorash; Feel my Bicep; fluo kids; IndieFeed; KCRW; KEXP; Keytars & Violins; Minnesota Public Radio; modyfier; National Public Radio's Second Stage; No Pain In Pop; Pitchfork; Radio Free Chicago; What To Wear During An Orange Alert; and as always, suggestions from listeners like you (cclapcenter [at] gmail.com).

Musicians featured in today's episode:
Masters At Work
Jon Drake & The Shakes
Masters of the Hemisphere
Electric Guest
Pink Martini and Saori Yuki
Nick Waterhouse
Pipas
Brasstronaut
VHS or Beta
Good Old War
MC Chris
Violens
Eternal Summers
Bleeding Rainbow
Foreign Fields Taller

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It's Monday, which means it's time for another episode of the CCLaP Podcast. Today features a live recording from the recent crowded and drunken release party for Lauryn Allison Lewis's CCLaP novella solo/down, which took place at Cole's Bar in the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago. The extra-long episode features performances from Robyn Pennacchia, James Tadd Adcox, Jac Jemc, Lindsay Hunter, Mason Johnson, Samantha Irby, Matt Rowan, Ben Tanzer and Lauryn herself, and was hosted by Curbside Splendor's Victor David Giron.

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It's Monday Tuesday, which means it's time for another episode of the CCLaP Podcast. Today: It's the fourth of four hour-long shows that CCLaP's authors recently attended in New York City, this time at the legendary lower Manhattan lit space KGB Bar. Featuring Kevin Haworth, David David Katzman, Traci Kim, Lauryn Allison Lewis, Sally Weigel, and an infamously riotous performance from Ben Tanzer. Many thanks to Lori Hettler for providing the missing audio you'll hear at the end!

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It's Monday, which means it's time for another episode of the CCLaP Podcast. Today: It's the third of four hour-long shows that CCLaP's authors recently attended in New York City, this time at the Brooklyn performance space Vaudeville Park, and in this particular case in conjunction with local band Battle Of The Camel. Featuring performances from David David Katzman, Oriana Leckert, Lauryn Allison Lewis, Katherine Scott Nelson, John Reed and Sally Weigel.

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It's Monday, which means it's time for another episode of the CCLaP Podcast. Today: It's my talk with contemporary Chicago lit legend Joe Meno, one of only a handful of local authors right now to have broken through into national prominence, reputation and resulting sales. Today we talk for an entire hour just about his new book, coming out this week with our friends at Akashic Books, the bittersweet relationship tale Office Girl. Also featuring the music of Ditt Inre and SPEAK.

Links to the things and people mentioned in today's episode:
Joe Meno
Hairstyles of the Damned (CCLaP's review)
Punk Planet
Office Girl (CCLaP's review)
Columbia College
Akashic Books
The Great Perhaps (CCLaP's review)
The Boy Detective Fails (CCLaP's review)
Ditt Inre
SPEAK

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It's Monday, which means it's time for another episode of the CCLaP Podcast. Today: It's the second of four hour-long shows that CCLaP's authors recently attended in New York City, this time at the Brooklyn bookstore Book Thug Nation, and in this particular case in conjunction with local litmag Moonshot. Featuring performances from David David Katzman, Oriana Leckert, Lauryn Allison Lewis, Katherine Scott Nelson and Sally Weigel, as well as Moonshot's Joshua Boardman, Rohin Guha, Niina Pollari and JD Scott.

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It's Monday, which means it's time for another episode of the CCLaP Podcast. Today: It's the first of four hour-long shows that CCLaP's authors recently attended in New York City, this time at the lower Manhattan rock club Le Poisson Rouge. Featuring performances from David David Katzman, Traci Kim, Lauryn Allison Lewis, Katherine Scott Nelson and John Reed.

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It's Monday, which means it's time for another episode of the CCLaP Podcast. Today: It's a half-hour talk with local author Lauryn Allison Lewis, where we gab all about her new book coming out today with the center, solo/down. Also featuring the music of The Beloved and SPEAK. And don't forget, if you download the enhanced MP4 version linked to below and listen on an iPod (or simply subscribe to CCLaP's iTunes channel), chapters and links and images will be at your disposal too!

Links to the things and people mentioned in today's episode:
Lauryn Allison Lewis
solo/down
Ben Tanzer
Curbside Splendor
Silverthought Press
The Beloved
SPEAK

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It's Monday, which means it's time for another episode of the CCLaP Podcast. Today: It's a one-hour talk with Michigan author Bonnie Jo Campbell, a past National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist whose latest novel, Once Upon a River, has a strong chance of being nominated for this year's Pulitzer. Also featuring the music of Hans Staudinger and Cuckoo Chaos. And don't forget, if you download the enhanced MP4 version linked to below and listen on an iPod (or simply subscribe to CCLaP's iTunes channel), chapters and links and images will be at your disposal too!

Links to the things and people mentioned in today's episode:
Bonnie Jo Campbell
Once Upon a River / CCLaP's review of Once Upon a River
Q Road / CCLaP's review of Q Road
American Salvage / CCLaP's review of American Salvage
Columbia College Story Week
Hans Staudinger
Cuckoo Chaos

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It's Monday, which means it's time for another episode of the CCLaP Podcast. Today: It's a one-hour talk with Washington writer Jonathan Evison, author of the popular novels All About Lulu and West of Here, as well as an editor at such litblogs as "The Nervous Breakdown" and "Three Guys One Book." Also featuring the music of Michael Watford and Whalers. And don't forget, if you download the enhanced MP4 version linked to below and listen on an iPod (or simply subscribe to CCLaP's iTunes channel), chapters and links and images will be at your disposal too!

Links to the things and people mentioned in today's episode:
Jonathan Evison
March of Crimes (Evison's teen punk band)
Shaken Not Stirred
All About Lulu / CCLaP's review of All About Lulu
West of Here / CCLaP's review of West of Here
"Port Bonita City Council" viral website
The Nervous Breakdown
Three Guys One Book
Michael Watford
Whalers

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It's Monday Tuesday, which means it's time for another episode of the CCLaP Podcast. Today: It's a half-hour talk with local author Sally Weigel, on the occasion of the release of her newest book with the center, the story collection Get Up Tim. Also featuring the music of Coco Bryce/Jon Lemmon and Earlimart. And don't forget, if you download the enhanced MP4 version linked to below and listen on an iPod (or simply subscribe to CCLaP's iTunes channel), chapters and links and images will be at your disposal too!

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Sally Weigel
Get Up Tim
Too Young to Fall Asleep
Jonathan Messinger's Hiding Out
Grace Blevins
Coco Bryce / Jon Lemmon
Earlimart

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It's episode 4 of the new SHOP Podcast, produced by the Southside Hub of Production (SHOP) in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, and whose files are hosted and distributed here through the main CCLaP Podcast feed. Today, it's a recording of the December edition of the queer literary showcase "All The Writers I Know," hosted by Patrick Gill. Held in the library of the historic William Wallace Fenn House where SHOP is headquartered.

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It's episode 3 of the new SHOP Podcast, produced by the Southside Hub of Production (SHOP) in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, and whose files are hosted and distributed here through the main CCLaP Podcast feed. Today, it's a half-hour recording of Chicago educator and author Jumeck Raféal, reading from his new novel Calling Queens, a piece of historical fiction in which a contemporary African-American high-school teacher is transported back in time to the Middle Ages, and inhabits the bodies of the various wives of Henry VIII. Held in the library of the historic William Wallace Fenn House where SHOP is headquartered; see more photos here.

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It's Monday Tuesday, which means it's time for another episode of the CCLaP Podcast. Today: It's an hour-long talk with Chicago author Ben Tanzer, on the occasion of the release of his two newest books with the center, the electronic story collection So Different Now and its deluxe paper edition, The New York Stories. Also featuring the music of Katie Kate and Deer Tick. And don't forget, if you download the enhanced MP4 version linked to below and listen on an iPod (or simply subscribe to CCLaP's iTunes channel), chapters and links and images will be at your disposal too!

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Ben Tanzer
So Different Now
The New York Stories
Repetition Patterns
KGB Bar
You Can Make Him Like You
My Father's House
Chicago Book Expo
This Zine Will Change Your Life
Another Chicago Magazine
Laura Szumowski
Katie Kate
Deer Tick

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It's episode 2 of the new SHOP Podcast, produced by the Southside Hub of Production (SHOP) in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, and whose files are hosted and distributed here through the main CCLaP Podcast feed. Today, it's a half-hour recording of Chicago teacher and filmmaker Robert Beshara, reading from his "N.A.R.T.ist Manifesto," a new way of thinking about the relationship between artists, researchers and teachers. Held in the library of the historic William Wallace Fenn House where SHOP is headquartered (see more photos here); audio graciously supplied by Anthony Lenzo.

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It's Monday, which means it's time for another episode of the CCLaP Podcast. Today: It's a special themed music mix, this time looking specifically at the genre known as "mathrock," which clueless middle-agers like myself can think of as the love child of Devo, club music, They Might Be Giants, '80s movie soundtracks and the energetic performances of the punk scene. Today's episode features 16 songs and lasts right around an hour and a half; and don't forget, if you download the enhanced MP4 version linked to below and listen on an iPod (or simply subscribe to CCLaP's iTunes channel), chapters and links and images will be at your disposal too!

Today's music came from original recommendations by: BIGSTEREO; Curb Crawlers; Daytrotter; Deckfight; Discobelle; Electrorash; Feel my Bicep; fluo kids; IndieFeed; KCRW; KEXP; Keytars & Violins; Minnesota Public Radio; modyfier; National Public Radio's Second Stage; No Pain In Pop; Pitchfork; Radio Free Chicago; What To Wear During An Orange Alert; and as always, suggestions from listeners like you (cclapcenter [at] gmail.com).

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Zenker Brothers, Berg 10
Tycho, Hours
Recloose, UHF
radicalfashion, Ballet (Dansx remix)
Maxim Lany, Cuncambias
Area, Dogs And Flies
Gold Panda, An Iceberg Hurled Northwards Through Clouds
Aubrey, Power Of The Drums
Coyote Clean Up, You X Won't X Know
The Sea and Cake, The Argument
Anthony Rother, Sauger
Alla Farmer, Fortune
Juniper, In The Interest Of Time
AM & Shawn Lee, Dark Into Light
Coco Bryce & Jon Lemmon, Furrr
Digitalism, Miami Showdown

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It's the inaugural edition of the new SHOP Podcast, produced by the Southside Hub of Production (SHOP) in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, and whose files are hosted and distributed here through the main CCLaP Podcast feed. Today, it's a recording of the November edition of the queer literary showcase "All The Writers I Know," hosted by Patrick Gill and that month featuring Dee Michel, Lindsey Dietzler, Adam Guerino, Mar Curran, and Rosy Phinick, held in the library of the historic William Wallace Fenn House where SHOP is headquartered.

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It's Monday, which means it's time for another episode of the CCLaP Podcast. (By the way, would your business be interested in underwriting the CCLaP Podcast? Do be sure to drop me a line at cclapcenter [at] gmail.com to talk more.) Today, I talk with Julie Saltzman and Susan Karp of the Uptown Writers Space; think of it as kind of like a cafe, where you can both work and socialize, but with a cleaner and quieter space than a public cafe, and a monthly membership fee to gain access. The first half of this episode is a traditional interview with Susan and Julie; then the two give me an "audio tour" of the facilities, which is supplemented in real time with photos if you are listening to this in iTunes, on a video iPod, or on one of them fancy-schmancy iPhones. (Don't worry; you can also go to Flickr, via the link below, to see just the photos on your own.) Also featuring the music of Creative Commons recording artists Andrew Bird and The Rosebuds.

Links to the people and projects mentioned in this podcast:
Uptown Writers Space
Photos of today's tour (at Flickr.com)
Dan Stolar
Andrew Bird
The Rosebuds
Uptown Poetry Slam/Marc Smith

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It's Monday Wednesday, which means it's time for another episode of the CCLaP Podcast. Today, a talk with an old friend of mine named Scott Ridgway, a writer and on-air personality at internet radio station FearlessRadio.com, along with a "soundscape" audio tour of their facilities in the River North neighborhood. Also featuring the music of Creative Commons recording artists Mocha Lab and edibleRed. And don't forget, if you download the MP4 version and listen to it through iTunes, an iPhone, or a video iPod, you'll get access to chapters, weblinks and images as well!

Links to the people and projects mentioned in this episode:
FearlessRadio
The Peace and PipeDreams Show
Scott Ridgway
Full set of photos from today's tour (at Flickr)
Mocha Lab
edibleRed

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