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8-Aug-2012, 9:27 PM

The Bizarro Starter Kit

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/3am-review-the-bizarro-starter-kit/

The Bizarro Starter Kit introduces ten writers from that genre, not a new genre the authors acknowledge, but a new term. The Kit is a joint production between Raw Dog Screaming Press, Eraserhead Press and Afterbirth Books (imprints which are as underground and anti-mainstream as their names suggest), the voices gathered under a rickety Charles Addams-style umbrella are different from each other and the works span short stories to novellas. Bizarro claims it does not “defy categorization so much as deny it”, but there are some distinct styles: the isms (surrealism, magic realism, irrealism, absurdism, metrosexualism) and some self-invented tags (like blender, brutality chronic, “tweaker lit”, “Walronian fiction”, the horrible).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bizarro_fiction

 

Counting the days till the next Thursday Next book: "The Woman Who Died A Lot"  (should just order the UK edition... the US release is two months away.)

http://www.jasperfforde.com/subindex/tn7subindex.html