WARNING!

CHODE!, the prequel to Mark Spitzer’s cult-classic novel Chum (Zoland Books), is more than just a gob of spit in the face of lit: it’s a completely absurd abomination of scatology, blasphemy and violence. It’s the epic epileptic history of a dump of an island off Alaska that chronicles the chronic lives of scurvy slaves and sodomite pirates, creepy convicts, crippled fanatics, sadistic midgets and underage whores; plus madmen, mongoloids, feckless hags, pinheads and elephant men. It’s an anti-P.C. travesty, a smearfest on the handicapped, an all-out assault on every race and faith there is. A seizuring indignity riddled with exaggerated stereotypes, ludicrous slang, and no social value whatsoever, CHODE! drips with body slime and suicide, big-butt gutter-sluts, birth defects, torture, rape, genocide, incest, VD, orgiastic revelry, rug-munching bearded ladies, human torsos, Siamese twins, Cleveland steamers and impossible fish. It’s an absolute abuse on the reader, totally devoid of any hope, just waiting to get banned and censored by hypocritical moralists who will surely reject its nouveau cartooniness as the shameless pornography of an extreme and graphic indecency.

“Shades of Bataille! The first genuinely French novel has just burst upon the AmLit Scene. It’s a hyper-Célinian beyond-Sade journey to the end of everybody’s night—a Symbolistic Surrealistic Genre-Busting manifesto of toilet prose as unapologetic as an environmental disaster waiting to happen! I couldn’t put it down.”
—David Gessner, author of Sick of Nature.

“Mark Spitzer is the pseudonym of a writerly fury unleashed on earth by the Great God Perspiration.”
—Andrei Codrescu, literary icon.

“A mad melange of frank, gritty, and hilarious tales!”
—Kane X. Faucher, author of Tales Pinned on a Complete Ass.

“A career-ruining transgressive novel.”
—Robin Becker, his wife.