The cult section of the literary world
by Ben Arzate Martin goes to a Bible camp while his mom works on her dream gig of doing makeup for ahorror movie. What he doesn’t expect is that he’s going to face something there scarier than anymovie he’s ever seen. Meanwhile, his mother keeps sending him emails, weaving tall […]
Garrett Cook here. I breathed a sigh of relief on this first week of open subs when I got someone I knew. Ben Arzate writes hip, transgressive plays and novellas influenced by Battaille and the like, along with stuff on Japanese noise bands you’ve never heard of. It’s a truly […]
by Ben Arzate The Unreprinted explores the depths of books forgotten and fallen into the limbo of being out-of-print and only available as used copies. A place where strange and bizarre books can often be found. In this entry for Bizarro Central, we take a look at Samuel R. Delany‘s […]
by Ben Arzate How can anything make sense once it feels so big? I’m barely in control of myself. How can the sky be anything but a huge, beautiful fluke? Whatever it is, I’ll take it. The unnamed narrator of Thomas Moore’s We’ll Never Be Fragile Again spends the one […]
by Ben Arzate Norman Spinrad’s new, surreal novel is written in the form of a series of documents related tothe DREAMMASTER, a machine which allows its user to control their dreams like choosing afilm to watch. It consists of advertisements, manuals, records of dreams, and online dispatches.Through these, a narrative […]
by Ben Arzate The Unreprinted explores the depths of books forgotten and fallen into the limbo of being out-of-print and only available as used copies. A place where strange and bizarre books can often be found. For this first entry for Bizarro Central, we take a look at the unusual […]
by Ben Arzate To my great dismay, I’ve been spending more time on social media lately. However, I have come across several accounts dedicated to posting what are called “liminal spaces.” You may have seen these. Some reoccurring images are abandoned malls, empty hallways, barren parking lots, and parks after […]
by Luke Kondor You may have seen one of Ben Arzate’s thorough book reviews on CulturedVultures.com and taken him for some kind of… book reviewer. But he’s much, much more than that. This guy is a master reviewer! He reviews his own pants at the end of each night — […]
Wherein Bizarro Central features a wide-ranging look at all the weird books coming out this summer… “The Story of the Y… is the love child of Carlos Fuentes and Hunter S. Thompson, covered in blood and desert dust, screaming outside a Mexican restaurant. Listen to it.” – Gabino Iglesias, Author of […]
