Description:
Bizarrism is a collection of strange-but-true tales, featuring a grand parade of eccentrics, visionaries, crackpots, cult leaders, artists, theorists and outsiders of every stripe. First published in 1999, this new, fully revised and expanded edition revisits a host of unique individuals, including:
- William Chidley, who believed that, when it comes to sex, we've all been making a terrible mistake
- Arthur Cravan, who combined poetry with boxing
- Slim Gaillard, jazz singer and dispenser of 'vout'
- William Lindsay Gresham, author of the classic noir novel Nightmare Alley
- Rosaleen Norton, Australia's most notorious witch
- Harry Crosby, poet, sun worshipper and the best looking corpse of 1929
- Reginal Levgiac, author of the mysterious pamphlet Drugs Virus Germs.
Brief description: Chris Mikul is a Sydney-based writer and publisher of the long-running zine Bizarrism, which is devoted to all manner of real-life strangeness.
Review Quotes: "E-gads, what a book!...a stranger-than-fiction gem that's impossible to put down." -- The Spectator