Bizarrism: Strange Lives, Cults, Celebrated Lunacy - Softcover

Mikul, Chris

 
9781900486064: Bizarrism: Strange Lives, Cults, Celebrated Lunacy
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1900486067 ISBN 13: 9781900486064
Verlag: Headpress, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

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.
In writing their stories, Mikul does not judge, but instead celebrates these characters for their fabulous weirdness. For him, they are the "beacons of shining if erratic brilliance in a world of sensible conformity". The world would be a poorer place without them.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.

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Verlag
Headpress
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1900486067
ISBN 13 
9781900486064
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
160
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