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Sitting on my nightstand is a book. Practical Common Lisp by Peter Seibel. What is it? The best Common Lisp tutorial out there.
Sure, there are an awful lot of Common Lisp books you can buy, and a bunch more that you can find online. But Practical Common Lisp is both engaging and relevant. It focuses on writing actual programs of the sort that are actually used today. So it gets into the down and dirty stuff like file i/o that are too often ignored by tutorials in many languages. Seibel's examples conclude with a full web-based MP3 browser with Shoutcast streaming.
Which reminds me, maybe I should use his code as the bases for a replacement for my home jukebox.