Welcome to the publishing wing of the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography. CCLaP Publishing means to "fill the gaps" of the usual commercial literary industry, producing and releasing a series of extra-high-quality projects by mid-level writers that in one way or another simply don't make for good full-length paper retail manuscripts. Whether cutting-edge in nature, prurient, or simply of an unusual length, all books by CCLaP Publishing are designed to serve as a creative punctuation to a writer's career, a book of unusually high stature designed specifically to get them notice from the world's heaviest readers.

Feel like submitting your own manuscript for consideration? Click here for more on CCLaP's submission guidelines.

August 2010: CCLaP's newest original book is out, the running and writing essay collection 99 Problems by local author Ben Tanzer. Click here for the book's online headquarters, including links for purchasing/downloading, and a lot more about the book itself and its author.

February 2010: CCLaP Publishing is happy to announce "TwitLit," the center's first-ever story series. Written as a collection of haiku-like chapters, each no longer than 140 characters, TwitLit stories are first published serially through the short-message service Twitter.com, then published here as high-quality, printable poster versions for archival purposes. Click here for them all.

January 2010: CCLaP's fifth "white paper" is out, minor publications that simply collect and reprint longer material originally published at the website; in this case it's the center's look at the 37 best books reviewed here in 2009. Click here for the book's online headquarters, including direct links for free downloading.

November 2009: CCLaP's fourth "white paper" is out, minor publications that simply collect and reprint longer material originally published at the website; in this case it's volume 1 of the "CCLaP 100" series of classics essays, which have been published at the site regularly since winter 2008. Click here for the book's online headquarters, including direct links for free downloading.

September 2009: CCLaP's newest original book is out, the youth/war novella Too Young to Fall Asleep by local author Sally Weigel. Click here for the book's online headquarters, including links for purchasing/downloading, and a lot more about the book itself and its author.

January 2009: CCLaP's third "white paper" is out, minor publications that simply collect and reprint longer material originally published at the website; in this case it's a compilation of the four essays originally chronicling CCLaP's roundup of books for 2008. Click here for the book's online headquarters, including direct links for free downloading.

December 2008: CCLaP's second "white paper" is out, minor publications that simply collect and reprint longer material originally published at the website; in this case it's a compilation of the four essays originally chronicling the "Great iPod Indie Rock Challenge of 2008," in which I dared my lazy middle-aged self to replace all the sad old '80s and '90s rock on my little 1-gig iPod Shuffle with brand-new music by brand-new bands as quickly as possible. Click here for the book's online headquarters, including direct links for free downloading.

November 2008: CCLaP's first "white paper" is out, minor publications that simply collect and reprint longer material originally published at the website; in this case it's a compilation of nearly 400 bookmarks to "interesting things" concerning the 2008 US Presidential election, all of which originally ran at the CCLaP site in real time during the election itself. Click here for the book's online headquarters, including direct links for free downloading.

October 2008: CCLaP's first book is out, a "story cycle" called Repetition Patterns by a local author named Ben Tanzer. Click here for the book's online headquarters, including links for purchasing/downloading, and a lot more about the book itself and its author.

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