As previously announced Jason Pettus and his minions over at CCLaP have a new joint out Too Young to Fall Asleep by Sally Weigel. As also previously discussed we promised to re-consume Sally's novel and then report back on it here, right here. And so to loosely paraphrase the always awesome Otis Day, let's hit it. Too Young to Fall Asleep takes something we all think we know, high school, and intersects it with something we don't yet understand, the impact of the Iraq War. What's unique of course, is that it seeks to accomplish all this, just as movies like In the Valley of Elah, Stop Loss and now The Hurt Locker have tried to do as well, by capturing the essence of living during a time of war while the war being explored is actually happening, no time to look back, no time to reflect. It's a big and awesome task, and Sally has jumped-in feet first, planting her stake in the still shifting ground, and establishing a precedent for all of the Iraq War literature that is sure to follow.
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Sunday, September 20, 2009
Too Young to Fall Asleep by Sally Weigel.
As previously announced Jason Pettus and his minions over at CCLaP have a new joint out Too Young to Fall Asleep by Sally Weigel. As also previously discussed we promised to re-consume Sally's novel and then report back on it here, right here. And so to loosely paraphrase the always awesome Otis Day, let's hit it. Too Young to Fall Asleep takes something we all think we know, high school, and intersects it with something we don't yet understand, the impact of the Iraq War. What's unique of course, is that it seeks to accomplish all this, just as movies like In the Valley of Elah, Stop Loss and now The Hurt Locker have tried to do as well, by capturing the essence of living during a time of war while the war being explored is actually happening, no time to look back, no time to reflect. It's a big and awesome task, and Sally has jumped-in feet first, planting her stake in the still shifting ground, and establishing a precedent for all of the Iraq War literature that is sure to follow.
Monday, October 27, 2008
Our new short story collection Repetition Patterns - A story cycle is now live at CCLaP. For real.
We wanted to let you know that our new short story collection "Repetition Patterns - A story cycle" is now available from CCLaP Radiohead-style at the CCLaP Center. There are also a number of other goodies at this link and a description of the collection from CCLaP below. We look forward to your thoughts and hope that in some small, or maybe even large, way it changes your life.
"Dysfunctional suburbs. Dark thoughts. Crumbling relationships. Or in other words, just another day in the twisted world of author Ben Tanzer. In the experimental "Repetition Patterns," this two-time Chicago novelist creates his own fictional small town full of secrets and despair, with results that are partly Sherwood Anderson, partly Sam Shepard, and with a fair dose of Chuck Klosterman thrown in for good measure. A "pay what you want" eBook experiment in the style of Radiohead, the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography is proud to announce this as the organization's first-ever original title; new fans are bound to love the seedy pop-culture-laced style Tanzer brings to all his work, while existing fans are sure to see this as a new high point in a suddenly explosive career."
"Dysfunctional suburbs. Dark thoughts. Crumbling relationships. Or in other words, just another day in the twisted world of author Ben Tanzer. In the experimental "Repetition Patterns," this two-time Chicago novelist creates his own fictional small town full of secrets and despair, with results that are partly Sherwood Anderson, partly Sam Shepard, and with a fair dose of Chuck Klosterman thrown in for good measure. A "pay what you want" eBook experiment in the style of Radiohead, the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography is proud to announce this as the organization's first-ever original title; new fans are bound to love the seedy pop-culture-laced style Tanzer brings to all his work, while existing fans are sure to see this as a new high point in a suddenly explosive career."
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