Tom Bradley Bio Tom Bradley's latest short stories are in Exquisite Corpse, Big Bridge, Killing the Buddha, CrossConnect,
Naked Poetry, Pindeldyboz, Milk, and will be in the next Oyster Boy.These stories feature such gentry as a harelip with a six-figure book advance, a Palestinian abortionist, a
seven-foot-tall banjoist losing his mind in the London tube, a peyote-eating teen killer, a rent a-Frankenstein on Purple Haze, a Chinese compulsive masturbator, cannibal orgiasts in the basement of the Mormon Tabernacle, and Japanese schoolgirls conscripted to stir the vats in a poison gas factory.Tom's no-less uplifting essays appear, in Val Stevenson's great Nthposition, Salon.com, McSweeney's, David Horowitz's FrontPage, 2ndHand, Exquisite Corpse, Gadfly, Ralph, and Heresiarch, the mighty journal of anti-theology out of Belfast.
His essay, "How to Give a Rousing Reading," is in the next-to-current issue of New York's Poets & Writers Magazine. Meanwhile, Creative Nonfiction Journal has published some madness of his in their issue on the
Twin Towers attacks.Further Bradley essays appear in two of London's liveliest literary journals: The Richmond Review and
The Mighty Organ. The latter was featured in Arts and Letters Daily last August, only a few days before Tom's latest contribution to Gadfly received the same hit-engendering boost.By invitation, Tom contributed to The Spirit of Writing, an anthology of authors' reflections on their craft, published by Tarcher-Putnam last summer. Among his fellow contributors are Joseph Conrad and Mark Twain (Tom's bit is tucked between those two), plus Joan Didion, Sylvia Plath, Anais Nin, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Henry Miller. (Oh, and John Steinbeck is in there, too, somewhere.)
The blurb for this book reads as follows:
"These elegant meditations on what it means to be a person who writes offer comfort and inspiration for the countless writers who struggle each day to put words down on paper."
Tom's heartwarming bit shows him eating way too much peyote and torching a National Book Award winner's creative writing workshop.
Excerpts and reviews of Tom's novels, links to his online publications and audio performances, plus a
couple of hours of recorded readings, are posted at his website, http://tombradley.org.
