This article was originally published on Bainbridge Island Review on Sept. 22

Bainbridge-based author, and longtime Review staffer, Luciano Marano is one of 26 contributors to the new surrealist fiction anthology “Breaking Bizarro,” out now in print and digital editions from Death’s Head Press.

So-called “bizarro fiction” is a literary sub-genre that uses elements of absurdism, satire, and the grotesque, along with pop-surrealism and genre fiction staples, in order to create subversive, weird and entertaining works.

Typically heavily influenced by the works of Franz Kafka, William S. Burroughs and Philip K. Dick, as well as avant-garde or art house films and the paintings of the Surrealists, bizarro has been described as, “literature’s equivalent to the cult section at the video store.”

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