Talk:Tom Bradley (author)

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Tom Bradley is the libertine that Camille Paglia tries to portray herself as, in order to keep her Jocasta fantasies at bay... --Jonathan Penton, "When Spencer met Hannibal: Recreational Cannibalism in the New American Century"

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)

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)

Wow

No offense intended, but is that really the best p.d. image that could be found for this person? Sheesh. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.39.20.99 (talk) 21:07, 8 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

to Chromancer regarding Exquisite Corpse

As I said in my edit, Exquisite Corpse is not a "personal blog." It is one of the longest-running literary magazines in the USA. It certainly qualifies as a source.

The material in question is essay-like, unencyclopedic, and frankly bizarre, adding no understanding of the article's subject. As most of the previous edits along these lines have intentionally inflated this author's repute of strange antics and phrasings, I have no reason to believe this one isn't along the same lines. If you can find sources that don't, frankly, idolize him and play along with this sort of reputation-building game, I'd be happy to include them. But as it is, someone making a statement in an NPR commentator's magazine doesn't help. — chro • man • cer 21:29, 9 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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