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Other Things You Should Read: Last Final Girl and A Pretty Mouth

These two books just came out from Lazy Fascist Press a few days ago. Oh boy, they’re both so good. This might be the fiercest, weirdest pairing ever conceived of. But actually, this coupling of books is a really good … Continue reading

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I Read Odd Books NBAS week!

Anita Dalton at I Read Odd Books has just reviewed some New Bizarro Author books, including Love in the Time of Dinosaurs. The great thing about Dalton’s reviews is their professional-writer-quality plot and writing analysis. She takes quotes and examples … Continue reading

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Lost in Cat Brain Land

Here is the exquisite little stuffed cat I made for Cameron Pierce‘s newest book: Lost in Cat Brain Land. It has brains and a tentacle coming out of its stomach. The tentacle ends in a cat paw. Lost in Cat … Continue reading

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Other Things You Should Read 7: Warrior Wolf Women of the Wasteland

I have already instructed everyone in the whole world to read Carlton Mellick III‘s strange and wonderful books. I like them more and more. The great thing about these books is that although they contain awkward and bizarrely pornographic scenes, … Continue reading

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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

“Dream Fever: n. the intense heat on the skin of a sleeping person, a radioactive byproduct of an idle mind humming with secret delusions which then vaporize when plunged into the cooling bath of reality, thus preventing a meltdown that could … Continue reading

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Other Things You Should Read 5: Carlton Mellick III

And especially: The Haunted Vagina Carlton Mellick III is one of the most recognized faces of the Bizarro movement. His writing is prolific, he has published an unbelievable 25 books already and not a single one has been a disappointment … Continue reading

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Other Things You Should Read 4: Mykle Hansen. Mykle Hansen. Mykle Hansen.

Specifically his book: Help! A Bear is Eating Me! When I began reading “Help! A Bear is Eating Me!” I was so frustrated with the narrator that I almost wanted to stop reading it, just out of spite. Who would … Continue reading

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Other Things You Should Read 3: Zerostrata and My Fake War by Andersen Prunty

“My Fake War” follows its protagonist, Saul Dressing, an average, middle-aged library worker with huge, taloned feet as he is drafted by the military, abducted from his home and sent on a pointless and frustrating mission in the mysterious country … Continue reading

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Other Things You Should Read 2: The Ballad of a Slow Poisoner

Milford Mutterwurst is a lilting Victorian dandy whose elbows are flattening at an alarming rate. Goldfarb’s novella follows Mutterwurst and his companions across the ocean in a dirigible face. Ballad of a Slow Poisoner is some of the best bedtime … Continue reading

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Other Things You Should Read: The Log of the S.S. The Mrs. Unguentine

“Forty years ago I first linked up with Unguentine and we made love on twin-hulled catamarans, sails a-billow, bless the seas…“ Stanley Crawford’s novel, The Log of the S.S. The Mrs. Unguentine, is superb, magic, primeval, and bizarre. Crawford is … Continue reading

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