Tom Bradley (author)
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Tom Bradley is an American novelist and essayist. He is the author of The Sam Edwine Pentateuch[1], a five-book series, various volumes of which have been nominated for the Editor's Book Award, the New York University Bobst Prize, and the AWP Award Series in the Novel [2] [3]. Bradley's essays are regularly featured by Arts & Letters Daily and his short stories have appeared extensively in anthologies in America and in Europe.
He attended kindergarten downwind of above-ground hydrogen bomb tests [4]. In later life he met Edward Teller, inventor of the latter device, and was told "We had arms limitation from the very beginning. It commenced already with the second detonation."[5]
An exile for most of his life, Tom Bradley lived in the People's Republic of China for many years and lost friends in the Tiananmen Square Massacre [6]. He was thrown out of China for political reasons [7].
As an "unsung nukee[8]," Tom Bradley gravitated to Hiroshima[9] and Nagasaki[10], "the most famous nuclear test sites of all[11]," where his books and articles continue to cause controversies of a political nature [12] [13].
Tom Bradley claims paternal descent from a loose clan of Mormon handcart pioneers who were excommunicated almost immediately upon arriving in Deseret[14].
He is matrilaterally descended from an earlier Nagasaki expatriate, Thomas Glover, the "Scottish Samurai[15]." Known as the Founder of Modern Japan, Glover's heavy industrial pursuits eventually attracted America's second atom bomb[16]. It's been speculated that certain esoteric activities Tom Bradley has undertaken in Nagasaki are intended as atonement for this hereditary guilt[17] .
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[edit] External links
- tombradley.org
- Tom Bradley at Literati
- Profile-interview in National Public Radio commentator Andrei Codrescu's Exquisite Corpse
- Featured Author at Identity Theory Magazine
- Biography at Spuyten Duyvil Publishers (NYC)
- Lecture at the Paris Sorbonne International Conference on Electronic Literature
[edit] Major Books
- Fission Among the Fanatics, Spuyten Duyvil Books (NYC), 2007 (ISBN-10: 1933132337), (ISBN-13: 978-1933132334)
- Acting Alone, Browntrout Books (San Francisco), 1995 (ISBN-10: 1563137232), (ISBN-13: 978-1563137235)
[edit] Spoken Word
Four performances [18] from The Sam Edwine Pentateuch [19] (podcast by London's nthposition.com)
[edit] References
- ^ http://corpse.org/issue_14/poetick_kulchur/johan.html
- ^ The Edgier Waters, Snow Books (London), 2006 (ISBN 1-905-0052-02)
- ^ The Spirit of Writing, Tarcher Putnam (NYC), 2001 (ISBN 1-58542-127-8)
- ^ Acting Alone, Browntrout Books (San Francisco), 1995 (ISBN-10: 1563137232), (ISBN-13: 978-1563137235)
- ^ http://nthposition.com/asenseofnoplace.php
- ^ http://www.gadflyonline.com/8-20-01/FTR-madeinchina.HTML
- ^ http://www.salon.com/books/it/1999/11/29/china/index.html
- ^ http://www.nthposition.com/mypublicministryamong.php
- ^ http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2001/01/02hiroshima.html
- ^ http://www.identitytheory.com/writing/bradley1.html
- ^ http://www.canopicjar.com/Canopic13/BradleyStory.htm
- ^ http://corpse.org/issue_3/secret_agents/johan.html
- ^ http://archive.salon.com/books/it/2000/01/24/japan/index.html
- ^ Fission Among the Fanatics, Spuyten Duyvil Books (NYC), 2007 (ISBN-10: 1933132337), (ISBN-13: 978-1933132334)
- ^ http://www.identitytheory.com/writing/bradley1.html
- ^ The Scottish Samurai, Canongate Books Ltd,1997 (ISBN-10: 0862417465 ISBN-13: 978-0862417468)
- ^ http://corpse.org/issue_14/poetick_kulchur/johan.html
- ^ "How to Give a Rousing Reading: Advice from an Amplified Author," The Practical Writer, Penguin Books (NYC), 2004 (ISBN-10: 0142004006, ISBN-13: 978-0142004005)
- ^ "...are you Sam Edwine?" All Hands On, Elephant Rock Books (Chicago), 2004 (ISBN 0-9753746-05)
