{"id":2411,"date":"2012-01-19T20:34:25","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T20:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/?p=2411"},"modified":"2012-01-19T20:34:25","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T20:34:25","slug":"applause-applause-new-review-from-chicago-center-for-literature-and-photography-cclap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/2012\/01\/applause-applause-new-review-from-chicago-center-for-literature-and-photography-cclap\/","title":{"rendered":"Applause, applause! New review from Chicago Center for Literature and Photography (CCLap)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_1101.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2461\" title=\"IMG_1101\" src=\"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_1101-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Yesterday, Wednesday, January 18th, was the day of the Internet blackout boycotting SOPA and PIPA and since I am sympathetic to this cause, I tried to keep off Internet but it was difficult. \u00a0Last night I had to take the online <strong>Jeopardy <\/strong>test (which I blew) and yesterday I got word from <strong>Jason Pettus<\/strong> of the <strong><a title=\"Chicago Center for Literature and Photography review of Solace\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cclapcenter.com\/2012\/01\/your_micro-review_roundup_18_j.html\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Center for Literature and Photography<\/a> <\/strong>that he posted this mini review on his site. \u00a0It killed me to wait until today to post it.<\/p>\n<p>Here is what Jason had to say:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;When it comes to literary anthologies, it can be nearly impossible sometimes to give an overall critical score to such a varying collection of stories, so today I&#8217;m not even going to try; instead, I wanted to at least call your attention to this remarkable new compilation, put together by Ellen Wade Beals and with her mounting essentially a one-woman war over the last year to try to get it out to a wider and wider audience. Inspired by the overwhelming sense of helplessness that Beals felt after the one-two punch of September 11th and Hurricane Katrina, this attempt to even define the word &#8220;solace&#8221; (which as Beals explains in her introduction is not quite &#8220;succor,&#8221; not quite &#8220;comfort,&#8221; not quite &#8220;love,&#8221; but perhaps a complex combination of them all) boasts an impressive list of contributors, including such big names as T.C. Boyle and Joe Meno; and while by definition the pieces themselves vary in quality from great to only so-so, in general I found this to be a very worthwhile read, a rare statement for me when it comes to anthologies. A good example of comfort food for the literary soul, it comes heartily recommended.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Jason Pettus and CCLaP!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cclapcenter.com\/index.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cclapcenter.com\/archives\/logoblank.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"CCLaP: Chicago Center for Literature &amp; Photography\" width=\"420\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Wednesday, January 18th, was the day of the Internet blackout boycotting SOPA and PIPA and since I am sympathetic to this cause, I tried to keep off Internet but it was difficult. \u00a0Last night I had to take the online Jeopardy test (which I blew) and yesterday I got word from Jason Pettus of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,698,127,12,699,13,247,790,172,7,16,32],"class_list":{"0":"post-2411","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-anthology","8":"tag-chicago-center-for-literature-and-photography","9":"tag-contributors-2","10":"tag-ellen-wade-beals","11":"tag-jason-pettus","12":"tag-poetry","13":"tag-rave-review","14":"tag-recommendation","15":"tag-review","16":"tag-solace","17":"tag-solace-in-so-many-words","18":"tag-weighed-words","19":"entry","20":"has-post-thumbnail"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2411"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2466,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411\/revisions\/2466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}