Talk:Tom Bradley (author)

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What critics have said about Tom Bradley's novels: "I found ACTING ALONE to have an incredible energy level." --Stanley Elkin, author of A Bad Man "The contemporaries of Michelangelo found it useful to employ the term 'terribilita' to characterize some of the expressions of his genius, and I will quote it here to sum up the shocking impact of this novel as a whole. I read it in a state of fascination, admiration, awe, anxiety, and outrage." --R.V. Cassill, editor of The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction "Beyond the almost flawless surface of his stylistic facility, I am most impressed by Tom Bradley's ability to walk the edge of a tone that is simultaneously irreverent and profoundly serious. His work derives from the tradition of bawdy and absurdist black comedy of the late sixties, but is not an imitative slave to that tradition. It seems to me that Bradley has learned well from that generation of authors, but has mitigated their example with an even more traditional moral seriousness. It is a delight to be able to laugh aloud when one reads, and it is even more satisfying for a reader to feel confident that there is a significant point to the laughter." --Gordon Weaver, author of The Way We Know in Dreams

Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 14:01, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)

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Tom Bradley, former mayor of Los Angeles and official Democratic Party candidate for Governor of California should be here. The international terminal at Los Angeles International Airport is named for him. RickK 03:26, 16 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Care to write a stub about him then? Then I won't have to moan about us having pre-emptive disambiguation for this person, which contradicts policy. Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 15:28, 17 Jan 2004 (UTC)